* 1913 – Walt Kelly, American animator and cartoonist ( d. 1973 )

The technique — as invigorating as it was unorthodox — was later adopted by cartoonists like Walt Kelly and Garry Trudeau ," wrote comic strip historian Rick Marschall.

Capp is often associated with two other giants of the medium: Milton Caniff ( Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon ) and Walt Kelly ( Pogo ).

According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.

Milton Caniff offered another anecdote ( from Phi Beta Pogo, 1989 ) involving Capp and Walt Kelly, " two boys from Bridgeport, Connecticut, nose to nose ," onstage at a meeting of the Newspaper Comics Council in the sixties.

" Lazarus went on to cite Capp as one of the " four essentials " in the field of newspaper cartoonists, along with Walt Kelly, Charles Schulz and Milton Caniff.

Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).

* Goldstein, Kalman, " Al Capp and Walt Kelly: Pioneers of Political and Social Satire in the Comics " from Journal of Popular Culture ; Vol.

In Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, he wrote that his influences included Charles Schulz for Peanuts ; Walt Kelly for Pogo and George Herriman for Krazy Kat.

For example, the Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly originally appeared only in the New York Star in 1948 and was not picked up for syndication until the following year.

In a fearless move, Pogo's creator Walt Kelly took on Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, caricaturing him as a bobcat named Simple J. Malarkey, a megalomaniac who was bent on taking over the characters ' birdwatching club and rooting out all undesirables.

Jones co-directed 1969's The Pogo Special Birthday Special, based on the Walt Kelly comic strip, and voiced the characters of Porky Pine and Bun Rab.

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

At that first meeting there was Al Capp, Walt Kelly, Alex Raymond, Ernie Bushmiller, Milton Caniff, all of them just sitting there, big as life.

* 1951: Walt Kelly, Pogo

** Walt Kelly

* 1954-1956 Walt Kelly

** Walt Kelly, American cartoonist ( b. 1913 )

* The IGY is featured prominently during 1957 – 1958 run of Pogo comic strips by Walt Kelly.

This fort was immortalized by Walt Kelly in the Pogo comic strip.

1970 Earth Day poster by Walt Kelly

Little Orphan Annie lent itself easily to parody, which was taken up by both Walt Kelly in Pogo ( as " Little Arf ' n Nonnie " and later " Lulu Arfin ' Nanny ") and by Al Capp in Li ' l Abner, where Punjab became Punjbag, an oleaginous slob.

Walt Kelly, who grew up in Bridgeport, named the Pogo character P. T.

Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr. ( August 25, 1913 – October 18, 1973 ), or Walt Kelly, was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip, Pogo.

* American — Bloch, Albert: Many works, including Harlequinade ( 1911 ), Piping Pierrot ( 1911 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( 1913 ), Three Pierrots and Harlequin ( 1914 ); Bradley, Will: Various posters and illustrations ( see, e. g., " Banning " under Poetry below ); Heintzelman, Arthur William: Pierrot ( n. d .); Hopper, Edward: Soir Bleu ( 1914 ); Kuhn, Walt: The White Clown ( 1929 ); Parrish, Maxfield: Pierrot's Serenade ( 1908 ), The Lantern-Bearers ( 1908 ), Her Window ( 1922 ); Sloan, John: Clown Making Up ( 1909 ).

Pogo is the title and central character of a long-running daily American comic strip, created by cartoonist Walt Kelly ( 1913 – 1973 ) and distributed by the Post-Hall Syndicate.

* 1913 news and reviews of the Armory Show have been digitized and posted online as the Walt Kuhn, Kuhn Family Papers, And Armory Show Records at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

* Walt Whittaker 1913, Major League Baseball pitcher

Walt Kuhn, who took part in this show, would come to play a key role in the Armory Show, an exhibition mounted in 1913 that introduced many American viewers to avant-garde European art.

Marc Fraser Davis ( March 30, 1913, Bakersfield, California – January 12, 2000 ) was a prominent American artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios.

Among Harty's compositions from these years, Kennedy mentions a setting of Keats's " Ode to a Nightingale " ( 1907 ), a Violin Concerto ( 1909 ) premiered by Joseph Szigeti, the tone poem With the Wild Geese ( 1910 ) and the cantata The Mystic Trumpeter to words by Walt Whitman ( 1913 ).

Walt Ader ( December 15, 1913 in Long Valley, New Jersey – November 25, 1982 in Califon, New Jersey ) was an American racecar driver.

Bill Walsh ( September 30, 1913 – January 27, 1975 ) was a film producer and screenwriter who primarily worked on live-action films for Walt Disney Productions.

Donn B. Tatum ( January 9, 1913 — May 31, 1993, Los Angeles ) was the first non-Disney family member to be president of Walt Disney Productions.

Walt Kuhn ( October 27, 1877 – July 13, 1949 ) was an American painter and was an organizer of the modern art Armory Show of 1913, which was the first of its genre in America.

Today, Walt Kuhn is best remembered for his key role in planning the Armory Show of 1913.

* 1912 – Walt Gorney, American actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1970 – Walt Williams, American basketball player

* 1998 – Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.

* 1966 – Walt Disney, American animator ( b. 1901 )

* 2010 – Walt Dropo, American baseball player ( b. 1923 )

* 1901 – Walt Disney, American animated film producer ( d. 1966 )

* Devo 2. 0 – project between Devo and the Walt Disney Company

* Walt Disney ( 1901 – 1966 ), founder of The Walt Disney Company

* Roy O. Disney ( 1893 – 1971 ), Walt's brother and co-founder of The Walt Disney Company

* 1940 – The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.

* Lead trumpet – Roger Ingram, ( Dave Stahl, Walter White, Walt Johnson – subs )

* 1951 – Walt Willey, American actor

* 1893 – Roy O. Disney, American businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company ( d. 1971 )

* 1923 – Walt Dropo, American baseball player ( d. 2010 )

* 1855 – In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.

* 1939 – Walt Bellamy, American baseketball player

* 1951 – Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.

* 1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.

* 1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.

* Symphony No. 1, Versuch eines Requiem for alto and orchestra ( 1950 ) – revised version of Symphonisches Fragment ( on texts by Walt Whitman )

* 1958 – Walt Terrell, American baseball player

Important literary precursors of Modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 81 ) ( Crime and Punishment ( 1866 ), The Brothers Karamazov ( 1880 ); Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 92 ) ( Leaves of Grass ) ( 1855 – 91 ); Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal ), Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ) ( Illuminations, 1874 ); August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), especially his later plays, including, the trilogy To Damascus 1898 – 1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ).