What I should have said, of course, was "Grayfriars Bobby".
I'll have to look through my collection of Walt Kelly to remind myself about Beauregard.
There's also Boot in The Perishers. That series always struck me as somewhere influenced by Pogo.
http://www.thechestnut.com/perishers.htm
Robin
--- On Fri, 23/10/09, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Burns statues
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, 23 October, 2009, 1:15 AM
> Or Balto, the dog that saved Nome,
> who lives on in bronze nearby.
>
> Reminds me suddenluy of Beauregard the noble dog, Pogo's
> friend, to whom we owe the carol "Bark Us All BowWows of
> Folly."
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