Saturday, January 27, 2018

Mort Walker (1923–2018)

Mort Walker, comic-strip artist and writer, creator of Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois, has died at the age of ninety-four. A Washington Post obituary notes that Walker drew Beetle Bailey for sixty-eight years, “longer than any other U.S. artist in the history of the medium.”

comments: 5

Frex said...

Ah, gee, I feel sad at the contined thinning of the ranks.
I grew up reading Beetle Bailey---it was on the front of "my" Sunday funny pages---my sister fot the funny pages with Dagwood on the front first (then we swapped).

Did MW make mistakes like the ones you point out in Hi & Lois, or is that the work of the artist(s) who came after him?

Michael Leddy said...

Dik Browne drew Hi and Lois, and no, no mistakes, at least not that I know of. They even had a floor plan for the Flagstone house. (I’ll find it and scan it.)

Comics were always a huge treat for me, because we were a New York Times family. Comics were at my grandparents’ house on Sunday visits.

Michael Leddy said...

Flagston. Flagston. (That was iPhone autocorrection at work.)

Frex said...

Thanks. Interesting.
(I can't blame autocorrect for my spelling errors---just sloppiness on my part.)

Michael Leddy said...

I make many typos on my own, but I’d be ashamed to get the Flagston name wrong. :)