{"id":48248,"date":"2018-01-28T00:13:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T00:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/01\/28\/beetle-bailey-cartoonist-mort-walker-dies-at-94\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:43:09","slug":"beetle-bailey-cartoonist-mort-walker-dies-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/01\/28\/beetle-bailey-cartoonist-mort-walker-dies-at-94\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beetle Bailey&#8217; cartoonist Mort Walker dies at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LOS ANGELES \u2014 Comic strip artist Mort Walker, a World War II veteran who satirized the Army and tickled millions of newspaper readers with the antics of the lazy private \u201cBeetle Bailey,\u201d died Saturday. He was 94.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walker died at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, said Greg Walker, his eldest son and a collaborator. His father\u2019s advanced age was the cause of death, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walker began publishing cartoons at age 11 and was involved with more than a half-dozen comic strips in his career, including \u201cHi and Lois,\u201d \u2033Boner\u2019s Ark\u201d and \u201cSam &amp; Silo.\u201d But he found his greatest success drawing slacker Beetle, his hot-tempered sergeant and the rest of the gang at fictional Camp Swampy for nearly 70 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The character that was to become Beetle Bailey made his debut as Spider in Walker\u2019s cartoons published by the Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. Walker changed Spider\u2019s name and launched \u201cBeetle Bailey\u201d as a college humor strip in 1950.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/broadside.navytimes.com\/2018\/01\/29\/mort_walker\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">The Broadside Blog: Mort Walker<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At first the strip failed to attract readers and King Features Syndicate considered dropping it after just six months, Walker said in a 2000 interview with The Associated Press. The syndicate suggested Beetle join the Army after the start of the Korean War, Walker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was kind of against it because after World War II, Bill Mauldin and Sad Sack were fading away,\u201d he said. But his misgivings were overcome and Beetle \u201cenlisted\u201d in 1951.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walker attributed the success of the strip to Beetle\u2019s indolence and reluctance to follow authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMost people are sort of against authority,\u201d he said. \u201cHere\u2019s Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"822\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ARM-beetle-bailey-1-web.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ARM-beetle-bailey-1-web.jpg.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ARM-beetle-bailey-1-web.jpg.jpg?resize=300,206 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ARM-beetle-bailey-1-web.jpg.jpg?resize=768,526 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ARM-beetle-bailey-1-web.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,701 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mort Walker, the artist and author of the Beetle Bailey comic strip, looks over notes and documents in his studio in Stamford, Conn., in this Aug. 16, 2010, photo. Walker died Jan. 27, 2018. He was 94. (Craig Ruttle\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBeetle Bailey\u201d led to spin-off comic strip \u201cHi and Lois,\u201d which he created with Dik Browne, in 1954. The premise was that Beetle went home on furlough to visit his sister Lois and brother-in-law Hi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fellow cartoonists remembered Walker on Saturday as a pleasant man who adored his fans. Bill Morrison, president of the National Cartoonists Society, called Walker the definition of \u201ccartoonist\u201d in a post on the society\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe lived and breathed the art every day of his life. He will be sorely missed by his friends in the NCS and by a world of comic strip fans,\u201d Morrison said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fellow cartoonist Mark Evanier said on his website that Walker was \u201cdelightful to be around and always willing to draw Beetle or Sarge for any of his fans. He sure had a lot of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBeetle Bailey,\u201d which appeared in as many as 1,800 newspapers, sometimes sparked controversy. The Tokyo editions of the military newspaper Stars &amp; Stripes dropped it in 1954 for fear that it would encourage disrespect of its officers. But ensuing media coverage spurred more than 100 newspapers to add the strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after President Bill Clinton took office, Walker drew a strip suggesting that the draft be retroactive in order to send Clinton to Vietnam. Walker said he received hundreds of angry letters from Clinton supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years, Walker drew Camp Swampy\u2019s highest-ranking officer, Gen. Amos Halftrack, ogling his well-endowed secretary, Miss Buxley. Feminist groups claimed the strip made light of sexual harassment, and Walker said the syndicate wanted him to write out the lecherous general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That wasn\u2019t feasible because the general was such a fixture in the strip, Greg Walker said Saturday. His father solved the problem in 1997 by sending Halftrack to sensitivity training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat became a whole theme that we could use,\u201d said Greg Walker, who with his brother, Brian, intends to carry on his father\u2019s work. Both have worked in the family business for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"826\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ARM-beetle-bailey-3-web.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ARM-beetle-bailey-3-web.jpg.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ARM-beetle-bailey-3-web.jpg.jpg?resize=300,207 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ARM-beetle-bailey-3-web.jpg.jpg?resize=768,529 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ARM-beetle-bailey-3-web.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,705 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Beetle Bailey comic strips that will be published in the coming weeks rest on a desk in the studio of creator Mort Walker in Stamford, Conn., in this Aug. 16, 2010, photo.(Craig Ruttle\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBeetle Bailey\u201d also featured one of the first African-American characters to be added to a white cast in an established comic strip. (\u201cPeanuts\u201d had added the character of Franklin in 1968.) Lt. Jack Flap debuted in the comic strip\u2019s panels in 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a 2002 interview, Walker said that comics are filled with stereotypes and he likes to find humor in all characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI like to keep doing something new and different, so people can\u2019t say I\u2019m doing the same thing all the time. I like to challenge myself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walker also created \u201cBoner\u2019s Ark\u201d in 1968 using his given first name, Addison, as his pen name, and \u201cSam &amp; Silo\u201d with Jerry Dumas in 1977. He was the writer of \u201cMrs. Fitz\u2019s Flats\u201d with Frank Roberge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1974, he founded the International Museum of Cartoon Art in Connecticut to preserve and honor the art of comics. It moved twice before closing in 2002 in Boca Raton, Florida. Walker changed the name to the National Cartoon Museum and announced in 2005 plans to relocate to the Empire State Building in New York. But the following year, the deal to use that space fell through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2000, Walker was honored at the Pentagon with the Army\u2019s highest civilian award \u2014 the Distinguished Civilian Service award \u2014 for his work, his military service and his contribution to a new military memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also developed a reputation for helping aspiring cartoonists with advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI make friends for people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addison Morton Walker was born Sept. 3, 1923, in El Dorado, Kansas, and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1943 he was drafted into the U.S. Army, serving in Europe during World II. He was discharged as a first lieutenant, graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia and pursued a career as a cartoonist in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walker most recently oversaw the work of the staff at his Stamford studio, Comicana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides sons Greg and Brian, Walker is survived by his second wife, Catherine; daughters Polly Blackstock and Margie Walker Hauer; sons Neal and Roger Walker; stepdaughters Whitney Prentice and Priscilla Prentice Campbell and several grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funeral services will be private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The antics of the lazy private \u201cBeetle Bailey\u201d could be found in newspapers across the country, including Army 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