'Beetle Bailey' cartoonist Mort Walker dies at 94

AP ^ | 1/27/18 | Lynn Elber

[fella]

I started reading Beatle Bailey in the old Washington Star back in the 50’s. LOL

He had a good run, saddened to see him go.

[corlorde]

Another person I never figured was still alive.

Boy, isn't that the truth.

[Ciaphas Cain]

[yarddog]

My Mother once mentioned to me that her favorite comic strip when she was a girl was “The Katzenjammer Kids”. She was born in 1918 just South of the Alabama line.

Grandpa Mac subscribed to the Montgomery Advertiser.

[OldMissileer]

RIP, Mort. Thank you for your patriotism and humor. May God keep you and comfort your family.

[VictoryGal]

God rest his soul. I’ve been enjoying his comics since I was a wee lass! :-)

[fella]

"What a great contributor to the old fashioned Sunday funnies."

Those Sunday morning comics were how I started to learn to read. I would bring the paper in from the front porch and take it to my parents bedroom and sit between them in bed and they would read me the comics before breakfast.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

RIP

[Oratam]

I heard Walker would draw Miss Buxley in tie-off and half-shirts so he could reveal her belly button. . .only to have “censors” razor blade them off.

[yarddog]

A common thread was General Halftrack getting caught eyeing Miss Buxley, by his wife.

[Dr. Sivana]

My Mother once mentioned to me that her favorite comic strip when she was a girl was “The Katzenjammer Kids”.

That was the oldest comic strip that we would recognize as a comic strip, starting in the late 19th century. (The Yellow Kid is generally recognized as the first, but it was generally single panel, and really, really weird.)

[DakotaGator]

Camp Swampy’s flag flies at half-staff. Rest In Peace, Mort.

[yarddog]

I lived near Ft. Stewart for a couple of years.

Everyone called it “Camp Swampy”.

[Dr. Sivana]

The good ol' days.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

How about Snuffy Smith?

There was another one about an (unmarried) farmer and his sister but I’ll be damned if I can remember what it was.

[yarddog]

It was Roscoe Sweeney. That strip was a take off from Buzz Sawyer. Roscoe had been Buzz’s rear gunner on a dive bomber in WWII.

[yarddog]

All these old comic strip references are bringing back memories.

One of my favorite’s was “Our Bording House” with Major Hoople.

I guess boarding houses are nearly a thing of the past too.

[Rome2000]

Read Beetle Bailey regularly when I was between 5 and 10 years old, very funny.

Be great if there was a modern cartoonist that could use Walker as an inspiration to keep this humor going.

[shanover]

God I miss the Sunday Comics!

I read them in the 70's and 80's and then newspapers shrunk physically and intellectually. Ronald Reagan shaped who I am as a Conservative. Clinton made my blood boil and here we are today. We are not immortal and we need to keep the torch on fire.

[Rome2000]

“Thin Garbage”

Strongly agree with your post.