Kelly, Walt(er Crawford)

(born Aug. 25, 1913, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Oct. 18, 1973, Los Angeles, Calif.) U.S. cartoonist. From 1935 he produced animation drawings for Walt Disney Productions, and in the 1940s he worked as a commercial artist in New York. His best-known character, the opossum Pogo, first appeared in a comic book c. 1943. In 1948 Pogo began to be published as a daily comic strip in the New York Star, and it was soon appearing in many other newspapers. Skillfully drawn, with witty and literate text, it featured Pogo and his winning animal friends in Okefenokee Swamp, characters Kelly often used to satirize prominent political figures.

Kelly, (Walter Crawford) Walt (1913–73) cartoonist; born in Philadelphia. After working as an animator for Walt Disney Studios from 1935 to 1941, he created in 1943 the newspaper comic strip, Bumbazine and Albert the Alligator, which featured characters in Okefenokee swamp and eventually evolved into the classic strip, Pogo, in 1948. In this strip, which was noted for its sharp political commentary, Pogo Possum provides the frequently quoted aphorism, "We have met the enemy and he is us."