Mort Walker
Mort Walker
Addison Morton Walker, popularly known as Mort Walker, is an American comic artist best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954. He has signed Addison to some of his strips...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth3 September 1923
CountryUnited States of America
beetle home korean took war
I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?
stars stripes demise
I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.
nice passion taught
You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.
cartoon tables want
At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.
stars soldier black
When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.