G-20 Summit Draws Exhibits of Cartoon Commentary to Pittsburgh

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Most folks these days don't remember, or perhaps never heard, the quote "We have met the enemy and he is us," once espoused by Walt Kelly's (1913-73) legendary cartoon strip character Pogo.

Pogo was the central character of Kelly's long-running (1948- 1975) daily comic strip of the same name. Fictitiously set in the Georgia section of the very real Okefenokee Swamp, the strip often engaged in social and political satire through the adventures of its "funny animals," or anthropomorphic characters.

The quote was a parody of a message sent in 1813 from Navy Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry to Army Gen. William Henry Harrison after the Battle of Lake Erie stating "We have …