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Mort Walker, creator of long-running 'Beetle Bailey' comic strip, dies at 94, family says
Fox News ^
| 01/28/2018
| Elizabeth Zwirz
Posted on 01/28/2018 4:27:14 AM PST by DFG
Beetle Bailey comic strip artist Mort Walker died Saturday at age 94, his family said.
According to his oldest son, Greg, who partnered with his father on that venerable cartoon take on the military life, the elder Walker died of old age at his home in Stanford, Conn.
Walker was part of more than a half-dozen comic strips in his career, including "Hi and Lois," ''Boner's Ark" and "Sam & Silo." But his greatest success came from Beetle, his hot-tempered sergeant and the rest of the gang at fictional Camp Swampy, which he drew for nearly 70 years.
After an initial lack of popularity, the cartoon eventually succeeded, which Walker attributed to Beetles indolence and reluctance to follow authority.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bailey; beetle; beetlebailey; mort; mortwalker; obituary; walker; wwii
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posted on
01/28/2018 4:27:15 AM PST
by
DFG
To: DFG
RIP. Timeless characters.
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posted on
01/28/2018 4:29:58 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: DFG
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posted on
01/28/2018 4:30:40 AM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: WayneS
My favorite part of Beetle Bailey was when Sarge would beat the crap out of him all the time. When I was a kid, I thought it was so funny how Beetle ended up all in a heap with his arms and legs poking out all different directions with smoke coming off him.
Comics were good back then.
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posted on
01/28/2018 4:34:20 AM PST
by
bagster
(Even bad men love their mamas.)
To: bagster
I didn't know he did Hi and Lois.
I'm 70, and I grew up on those comics, or as we said, The Funnies (Boston)
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posted on
01/28/2018 4:38:01 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
To: knarf
The Boston Herald-American had the best comics section in the whole country. I used to buy the Sunday edition JUST for the comics. TWO full sections, a broadsheet and a tabloid. Where else would I get to read “Cicero’s Cat”?
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posted on
01/28/2018 4:54:36 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: knarf
We used to say the Funnies down in New York, but maybe we got it from Boston.
I did recognize the style of his in Hi and Lois. Used to read it.
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posted on
01/28/2018 5:00:05 AM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: DFG
May God bless you Mort Walker.
To: Beowulf9
Funnies in Maine too as I remember. Every Sunday AM before getting ready for breakfast and church we’d all read the funnies together.
To: Fightin Whitey
He looks a bit like Hi of Hi and Lois.
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posted on
01/28/2018 5:26:11 AM PST
by
Westbrook
(Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
To: DFG
I'm 70 y/o and still read the comics every day. Peanuts rules, but Beetle Bailey is a very close second.
RIP Mort Walker, you made daily life a little easier to deal with.
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posted on
01/28/2018 5:50:07 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: DFG
Prayers to the Walker family...another part of my childhood died...
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posted on
01/28/2018 6:25:00 AM PST
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
To: DFG
R.I.P. There was one particular Beetle Bailey panel which I wish I had a copy of. Sorry I didnt commit that panels text bubble to memory. First, Sarge says something Who sent this?
Next, Plato is standing at attention, and being called on to explain why he wrote Styxian darkness unrelieved by . . . blah, blah, blah . . . (and here I wish I could recite the whole litany). Plato explains,
I thought it sounded better than, No Report."
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posted on
01/28/2018 7:37:59 AM PST
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
To: knarf
Called em the funnies or funny papers in rural Indiana too.....I think it was a common national binder
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posted on
01/28/2018 7:49:32 AM PST
by
reed13k
To: bagster
My favorite part of Beetle Bailey was when Sarge would beat the crap out of him all the time. When I was a kid, I thought it was so funny how Beetle ended up all in a heap with his arms and legs poking out all different directions with smoke coming off him. Yeah, I always enjoyed that, too. Later on, I used to get annoyed when the strip would go for days focusing on Sarge's lookalike dog, Otto. That always seemed like Mort was "phoning it in".
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posted on
01/28/2018 8:20:20 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Charles Martel
Yea. You had suffer through those types to get to the good ones when Beetle was being a smart ass, pissing off Sarge, and takin's his ass whoopins. Man. It must be hard to think of a funny comic every SINGLE day for so many years. I might even run out of material after that long.
Nah.
Just save me from Daily Circus.
:)
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posted on
01/28/2018 8:26:02 AM PST
by
bagster
(Even bad men love their mamas.)
To: DFG; archy; kunsanhistorian; xzins; 2ndDivisionVet; SandRat; zot; HarleyLady27; ...
Rest in Peace Mort Walker and thank you very much for Beetle Bailey and everyone at Camp Swampy.
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posted on
01/28/2018 4:15:51 PM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: GreyFriar
Rest in Peace Mort Walker and thank you very much for Beetle Bailey and everyone at Camp Swampy. Amen.
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posted on
01/28/2018 6:33:36 PM PST
by
zot
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