Senators Malarkey and MacCarony
In May 1953, Walt Kelly (1913–1973) introduced into the Okefenokee Swamp of his popular Pogo comic strip the bobcat Simple J. Malarkey and Mole MacCarony in a satirical smack at crusading anticommunist senators Joseph McCarthy (1908–1957) and Pat McCarran (1876–1954). Jules Feiffer, noting the rage Kelly expressed in his “brilliant swipes,” later wrote, “I thrived on his satire in those early cold war years.” In this strip, Malarkey and MacCarony, members of a group investigating the swamp’s inhabitants, turn on each other.
In May 1953, Walt Kelly (1913–1973) introduced into the Okefenokee Swamp of his popular <em>Pogo</em> comic strip the bobcat Simple J. Malarkey and Mole MacCarony in a satirical smack at crusading anticommunist senators Joseph McCarthy (1908–1957) and Pat McCarran (1876–1954). Jules Feiffer, noting the rage Kelly expressed in his “brilliant swipes,” later wrote, “I thrived on his satire in those early cold war years.” In this strip, Malarkey and MacCarony, members of a group investigating the swamp’s inhabitants, turn on each other.