![]() ![]() They don't hurt as easily, and it's possible to make them more believable in an exaggerated pose." Pogo, formerly a "spear carrier" according to Kelly, quickly took center stage, assuming the straight man role that Bumbazine had occupied. Kelly said he used animals - "nature's screechers," as he called them - "largely because you can do more with animals. He eventually phased humans out of the comics entirely, preferring to use the animal characters for their comic potential. Bumbazine was retired early, since Kelly found it hard to write for a human child. Kelly created the characters of Pogo the possum and Albert the alligator in 1941 for issue #1 of Dell's Animal Comics, in the story "Albert Takes the Cake." Both were comic foils for a young black character named Bumbazine (a corruption of bombazine, a fabric that was usually dyed black and used largely for mourning wear), who lived in the swamp. Kelly then worked for Dell Comics, a division of Western Publishing of Racine, Wisconsin. He stayed until the animators' strike in 1941, as an animator on The Nifty Nineties, The Little Whirlwind, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and The Reluctant Dragon. He went to California at age 22, to work on Donald Duck cartoons at Walt Disney Studios in 1935. was born in Philadelphia on August 25, 1913, though his family moved to Bridgeport when he was only 2.
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