[Dixielandjazz] Is a Jack higher than a spade??

[Charles Suhor]

I went Pogo in the '52 election and as a kid was a nut for comics.  
comic books, and Big Little Books even before going real crazy and  
running wild for jazz. Wanted to be a cartoonist until I found out in  
high school that I had only enough talent to doodle on napkins and make  
block-letter posters that read "Give to the Community Chest." The first  
real book I ever read was Colton Waugh's "The Comics," which I had to  
beg for on my 11th birthday because my parents wanted me to read the  
classics. What a letdown for them when I went from comics to Jazz  
Record, Record Changer, and Down Beat. I lost track of comic books  
around 1955 but still enjoy comic strips and have a couple of good  
histories by R.C. Harvey, who was a colleague during my years in  
Illinois.

(Deck the halls with Boston) Charlie  Suhor

On Jan 30, 2007, at 9:37 AM, rahberry at comcast.net wrote:

> Dan,
> Add me to the Pogophile list!
>   -- Rae Ann
>
>
>
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Dan Augustine <ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu>
>> Charlie and DJML--
>>      Well, Charlie is the winner of the beautiful vacation in
>> Irwindale (courtesy of Frank Zappa's estate) for knowing that the
>> quotation on my signature tag was from Pogo:
>>
>> **-------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> **
>> **  Dan Augustine  --  Austin, Texas  --  ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu
>> **  "Is a Jack higher than an Ace or smaller than a Spade?"
>> **  "It's both, leastwise it's mostly." -- OK, who said that?
>> **-------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> **
>>
>>      I've been a Pogophile (to which Charlie alludes and belongs)
>> since about 1950 and have um... about 20 Pogo Possum comic books
>> (i.e., books of the comic strips from the daily papers).  Much to the
>> befuddled distress of my highschool English-teacher, i used to lapse
>> into Pogoese in both speech and prose at odd moments.
>>      And, lest you think that Pogo comics are off-topic to dixieland
>> jazz, know that Pogo's creator Walt Kelly was a big fan of Ward
>> Kimball's (and vice versa), who was inter alia the leader of the
>> Firehouse Five Plus Two.  Not only THAT, BUT (as i believe i have
>> recounted previously on this List) i am the proud owner of an
>> original Long-Playing record called "Songs of the Pogo", written (and
>> in a couple cases, sung) by Walt Kelly himself (which LP is now
>> available on CD).
>>
>>      Dan
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>> --
>>> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:26:20 -0500
>>> From: "charles coleman" <charliew8fim at verizon.net>
>>> Subject: Is a Jack higher than a spade??
>>> To: <ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu>
>>> Cc: "charlie coleman" <charliew8fim at verizon.net>
>>>
>>> Dan - Don't throw out Pogo-isms and not expect to get a response!!!
>>> That was from Walt Kelly, speaking for the three bats, Bewitched,
>>> Bothered and Bemildred as they sat playing cards.
>>> Regards,   Charlie "Pogophile" Coleman
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> **-------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> **
>> **  Dan Augustine  --  Austin, Texas  --  ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu
>> **      "We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo
>> **-------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> **
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