Commentary
Walt Kelly’s “Pogo” was a syndicated cartoon that appeared in hundreds of North American newspapers from 1948 to 1975.
The comic strip chronicled the adventures of a clever opossum who lived among other talking animals in the Southern Okefenokee Swamp. Pogo was popular among children and adults with plenty of pithy political satire aimed at the latter.
One of the best-known quotations from Pogo is, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” The line parodied a famous communication sent by U.S. Navy Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry to Army General William Henry Harrison after his victory at the Battle of Put-in-Bay during the War of 1812….