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Beetle Bailey comic frame creator, Mort Walker, dies aged 94
- Updated: January 28, 2018
Mort Walker, a artist and creator of a decades-long using comic frame “Beetle Bailey” about a antics of a work-shirking Army private, died during his home Saturday, his family said. He was 94
US Secretary of State Colin Powell stands with Mort Walker, creator of a widely-circulated “Beetle Bailey” comic strip
Mort Walker, a artist and creator of a decades-long using comic frame “Beetle Bailey” about a antics of a work-shirking Army private, died during his home Saturday, his family said. He was 94. His son Greg Walker, who co-wrote a frame with his father in his after years, pronounced his father died during his home in Stamford, Connecticut, of pneumonia while recuperating from a damaged hip. Mort Walker drew his daily award-winning comic frame for 68 years, longer than any other comic frame artist, his son said.
“He was sketch adult to a end,” Greg Walker said. “He binds a record. we don’t consider anyone will kick him.” His frame debuted in 1950 with Beetle as a college student, though Mort Walker had Beetle enroll in a Army in a initial year of a animation and it was a hit. Picked adult by King Features Syndicate, it went from a 12-newspaper run to eventually reaching 200 million readers in 1,800 newspapers worldwide, King Features’ website says. The lanky slacker Pvt. Beetle, along with his foils Sgt. Snorkle and Gen. Halftrack, live a illusory Camp Swampy desirous loosely on Mort Walker’s knowledge of Army life in World War II.
But Beetle and his friends never saw conflict in a frame and he seemed to be in incessant training. They have been featured in a radio animation series, games, books and postage stamps. Greg Walker pronounced his father, along with “Peanuts” and Charlie Brown creator Charles Schultz, pioneered a gag-a-day format of comic strips, violation form a sequence story lines of a day. “Serial strips were widespread and this was something new,” he said.
“It’s now a standard.” Mort Walker was also a co-creator of a long-running frame “Hi and Lois” about a suburban American family, that continues today, created and drawn by his sons Greg and Brian Walker and also artist Chance Browne. Greg Walker pronounced that Beetle and his friends will go on in a humorous pages as a bequest to his father. “He positively was an icon, a final cartoonist of a golden age of comic strips,” he pronounced on his Facebook page.
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