“Halp! My powerful brain is blowed itself up!”

— Walt Kelly

Albert Alligator in a thinking contest (after Howland Hoo Owl fires the starting gun)
Pogo comic strip (1948 - 1975), Others

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American cartoonist 1913–1973

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