Friday the 13th actually falls on a Friday this month, which makes today the rare perfect day to brag (not "humble brag," this is just a straight-up "brag brag") that I own the original art to this "Pogo" comic strip celebrating cartoonist Walt Kelly's favorite date. You can see the blue pencil underdrawing in this scan (the actual strip is four panels across; I stacked it 2x2 to fit better on the Web).
The "Pogo" characters' terror of Friday the 13th was a running gag of Kelly's. If the 13th didn't happen to fall on a Friday, that just proved how sneaky it was, while a 13th that coincided with a Friday was a perfect storm of misfortune. Such whimsical foolishness is one of the reasons "Pogo" and Kelly are among my Top Five favorite comic strips and cartoonists, respectively.
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