Newspaper comic-strip polls and Pogo.

Didn't "fair to well" [sic] and then fared weller? :)

Walt Kelly did a great essay about newspaper comic-strip polls and Pogo. Reprinted in Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue Eyed Years With Pogo, if I recall correctly, but I can't find my copy. (Good heavens, my collection is in such disarray!) Kelly said Pogo was always one of the strips that consistently polled strongly in the "drop it" category, and after being dropped was just as consistently quickly reinstated due to howls of protest.

He wasn't writing about Pogo per se as much as he was writing about polls, who answers them, and what they really mean (and, more importantly, don't mean). Still worthy today, maybe more than ever as politicians are more than ever unprincipled poll-watching weathervanes.