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Animator and strip cartoonist,
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He joined the Walt
Disney studio in Hollywood as an animator in 1935, and moved to
comic books in 1941, creating his most famous characters, Albert
Alligator and Pogo Possum of Okefenokee Swamp. He became art
editor of the New York Star (1948), introducing Pogo as a daily
strip. The serial embraced slapstick, fantasy, and influential
political comment, and was later published in several
collections. It was the source of the frequently quoted
aphorism: ‘We have met the enemy and they is us.’
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