Talk:Walt Kelly

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[edit] Issues about content, focus, sources

Instead of being about Walt Kelly, this page is in large part a rework of material exists, or properly should exist, on the Pogo page. Like that page, this is lacking citations. There's subjective language, which although well-intended and perhaps representing common beliefs, isn't appropriate to Wiki: "a landmark strip in many ways", "arguably one of the greatest and most influential of cartoonists", "defiantly hand-drawn". The comments about publication history are vague, and don't explain recent publication activity well.Alpha Ralpha Boulevard 06:49, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removes attribution of Snow White comic to Kelly

I removed the reference to his doing the comic book adaptation of Snow White. He did the cover for the 1944 edition of the comic (timed for the first reissue), but the content is just another reprint of the 1937 comic strip adaptation. My expert regarding this, David Gerstein, notes Kelly did pencil the 1944 "Donald Duck and the Seven Dwarfs" in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #43 (also timed to the first reissue), but it is in no sense an adaptation of the film. Dgabbard (talk) 17:55, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Sounds about right. Also, I added a header for this comment, since it's a different topic. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 07:40, 17 April 2008 (UTC)