# pogo characteristic of the pastime of jumping on or as on a pogo stick: a stilt-like pole on which one jumps about. the name of a very popular American comic strip, featuring an opossum named Pogo, who lived in the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. Pogo first appeared in a New York newspaper in 1948 and by 1952 it was syndicated in some 225 newspapers. The comic strip was produced by Walter Kelly (1913-1973), cartoonist and illustrator. Kelly commented on subjects of current interest through his comic strip