01-28-2018, 02:01 AM
Mort Walker, cartoonist (Beetle Bailey)
Addison Morton "Mort" Walker (September 3, 1923 – January 27, 2018) was an American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954. He signed Addison to some of his strips.
Walker was born in El Dorado, Kansas, and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri.[1] He had his first comic published at age 11 and sold his first cartoon at 12.[2] At age 14, he regularly sold gag cartoons to Child Life, Flying Aces, and Inside Detective magazines.[1] When he was 15, he drew a comic strip, The Lime Juicers, for the weekly Kansas City Journal, and at age 18, he was the chief editorial designer for Hallmark Cards.[3]
Graduating from Northeast High School, he attended the University of Missouri, where today a life-sized bronze statue of Beetle Bailey stands in front of the alumni center.[4]
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In 1943, Walker was drafted into the United States Army and served in Italy, where he was an intelligence and investigating officer and was also in charge of an Allied camp for German POWs.[2] After the war he was posted to Italy where he was in charge of an Italian guard company.[5] He was discharged as a first lieutenant in 1947.[5] He graduated in 1948 from the University of Missouri, where he was the editor and art director of the college's humor magazine, Showme, and was president of the local Kappa Sigma chapter.[1]
In addition to books about comics and children's books, Walker has collected his strips into 92 "Beetle Bailey" paperbacks and 35 "Hi and Lois" paperbacks, plus writing his autobiography, Mort Walker's Scrapbook: Celebrating a Life of Love and Laughter.[1]
In his book The Lexicon of Comicana (1980), written as a satirical look at the devices cartoonists use, Walker invented a vocabulary called Symbolia.[6] For example, Walker coined the term "squeans" to describe the starbusts and little circles that appear around a cartoon's head to indicate intoxication.[2] The typographical symbols that stand for profanities, which appear in dialogue balloons in the place of actual dialogue, Walker called "grawlixes".[2]
In 2006, he launched a 24-page magazine, The Best of Times, distributed free throughout Connecticut and available online.[1] It features artwork, puzzles, editorial cartoons, ads, and a selection of articles, comics and columns syndicated by King Features.[6] His son, Neal Walker, was the editor and publisher. Between 2006 and 2010, they published 27 issues.[11]
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Addison Morton "Mort" Walker (September 3, 1923 – January 27, 2018) was an American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954. He signed Addison to some of his strips.
Walker was born in El Dorado, Kansas, and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri.[1] He had his first comic published at age 11 and sold his first cartoon at 12.[2] At age 14, he regularly sold gag cartoons to Child Life, Flying Aces, and Inside Detective magazines.[1] When he was 15, he drew a comic strip, The Lime Juicers, for the weekly Kansas City Journal, and at age 18, he was the chief editorial designer for Hallmark Cards.[3]
Graduating from Northeast High School, he attended the University of Missouri, where today a life-sized bronze statue of Beetle Bailey stands in front of the alumni center.[4]
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In 1943, Walker was drafted into the United States Army and served in Italy, where he was an intelligence and investigating officer and was also in charge of an Allied camp for German POWs.[2] After the war he was posted to Italy where he was in charge of an Italian guard company.[5] He was discharged as a first lieutenant in 1947.[5] He graduated in 1948 from the University of Missouri, where he was the editor and art director of the college's humor magazine, Showme, and was president of the local Kappa Sigma chapter.[1]
In addition to books about comics and children's books, Walker has collected his strips into 92 "Beetle Bailey" paperbacks and 35 "Hi and Lois" paperbacks, plus writing his autobiography, Mort Walker's Scrapbook: Celebrating a Life of Love and Laughter.[1]
In his book The Lexicon of Comicana (1980), written as a satirical look at the devices cartoonists use, Walker invented a vocabulary called Symbolia.[6] For example, Walker coined the term "squeans" to describe the starbusts and little circles that appear around a cartoon's head to indicate intoxication.[2] The typographical symbols that stand for profanities, which appear in dialogue balloons in the place of actual dialogue, Walker called "grawlixes".[2]
In 2006, he launched a 24-page magazine, The Best of Times, distributed free throughout Connecticut and available online.[1] It features artwork, puzzles, editorial cartoons, ads, and a selection of articles, comics and columns syndicated by King Features.[6] His son, Neal Walker, was the editor and publisher. Between 2006 and 2010, they published 27 issues.[11]
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