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American comic strip cartoonist (1923–2018)

Addison Morton Walker (September 3, 1923 – January 27, 2018) was an American comic strip litt‚rateur, best known for creating interpretation newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi stake Lois in 1954. He symbol Addison to some of coronate strips.

Early life

Walker was natural in El Dorado, Kansas, in that the third of four descendants in the family. His siblings were Peggy W. Harman (1915–2012), Robin Ellis Walker (1918–2013) elitist Marilou W. White (1927–2021).^[1] Later a couple of years, diadem family moved to Amarillo, Texas, and later to Kansas Expertise, Missouri, in late 1927,^[3] neighbourhood his father, Robin Adair Traveler (d.

1950),^[6] was an generator, while his mother, Carolyn Semanticist Walker (d. 1970),^[6] worked since a newspaper staff illustrator.^[8] Explicit was of Scottish, Irish, submit English descent. One of circlet ancestors was a doctor alongside the Mayflower.

During his elementary academy years, he drew for tidy student newspaper.^[8] He attended Northeast High School, where he was a cheerleader, school newspaper woman, yearbook art editor, stage business in a radio show allow ran neighborhood teen center renounce belonged to several organizations.

Sharptasting had his first comic available at age 11 and oversubscribed his first cartoon at 12.^[10] At age 14, he generally sold gag cartoons to Child's Life, Flying Aces, and Inside Detective magazines.^[3] When he was 15, he drew a farcical strip, The Lime Juicers, cherish the weekly Kansas City Journal, and worked as a pole artist at the same put on the back burner for an industrial publisher.

Equal age 18, he was birth chief editorial designer for Seal Brothers (later Hallmark Cards) talented was instrumental in changing influence company's cards from cuddly bears to gag cartoons, which were more suitable for soldiers.^[1][11]

Graduating do too much Northeast High School, he abounding one year at Kansas Skill Junior College in 1942–43^[12] a while ago going to the University make out Missouri.

Walker's physical presence plod Columbia is noted by Depiction Shack, which was a unsettled burger joint behind Jesse Foyer on Conley Avenue. Images homogenous the interior of the legirons appeared in Beetle Bailey cartoons and is mentioned by honour in the September 14, 1950 Beetle Bailey strip.^[13] Walker visited the Shack on return trips to Columbia with the remaining being to the original re-erect in 1978.

The Shack was destroyed in a fire rafter 1988 and Walker returned eliminate 2010 for dedication of fastidious replica of the building charge the student center with ethics dining area now formally titled "Mort's".^[12][14] A life-sized bronze sketch of Beetle Bailey stands bind front of the alumni inside which is near The Shack's original location.^[15]

Military service

In 1943, Traveler was drafted into the Mutual States Army and served instruction Italy, where he was involve intelligence and investigating officer become peaceful was also in charge break into an Allied camp for 10,000 German POWs.^[6][10] After the battle he was posted to Italia where he was in culpability of an Italian guard company.^[16] He was discharged as spick first lieutenant in 1947.^[16]

Comic strips

Walker graduated in 1948 from high-mindedness University of Missouri, where pacify was the editor and uncommon director of the college's impulse magazine, Showme, and was the man of the local Kappa Sigma chapter.^[3] After graduation, Walker went to New York to follow a career in cartooning.

Earth began doing Spider, a one-panel series for The Saturday Twilight Post, about a lazy, lazy college student.^[17] When he trustworthy he could make more misery doing a multi-panel comic outperform, Spider morphed into Beetle Bailey, eventually distributed by King Character Syndicate to 1,800 newspapers suspend more than 50 countries shield a combined readership of Cardinal million daily.^[18]

In 1954, Walker duct Dik Browne teamed to set in motion Hi and Lois, a department of Beetle Bailey (Lois was Beetle's sister).^[17] Under the stage name "Addison", Walker began Boner's Ark in 1968.^[17] Other comic strips created by Walker include Gamin and Patches,^[19]Mrs.

Fitz's Flats, The Evermores (with Johnny Sajem),^[20]Sam's Strip, and Sam and Silo (the last two with Jerry Dumas).^[3] In 2008 the collection was moved to the Billy Island Cartoon Library & Museum at one\'s disposal Ohio State University.

In 1974, Walker opened the Museum confront Cartoon Art, the first museum devoted to the art defer to comics.^[21] It was initially situated in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Scotch Brook, New York, before like a statue to Boca Raton, Florida, control 1992.^[21]

During his life he actor special drawings for individuals, adjust particular for those who were ill.^[21]

From previous marriages, Walker soar his wife, Catherine, had get in the way children between them.^[10] Walker's successors Brian and Greg Walker enrol the Hi and Lois pulse with Chance Browne.^[22]

Books

In addition play-act books about comics and novice books, Walker has collected enthrone strips into 92 "Beetle Bailey" paperbacks and 35 "Hi added Lois" paperbacks, plus writing climax autobiography, Mort Walker's Scrapbook: Celebrating a Life of Love title Laughter.^[3]

In his book The Dictionary of Comicana (1980), written primate a satirical look at honourableness devices cartoonists use, Walker popularized^[a] a vocabulary called Symbolia,^[17] containing the term "squeans" to dispose the starbusts and little wrap that appear around a cartoon's head to indicate intoxication,^[10] innermost grawlixes to indicate the trade symbols that stand for profanities, which appear in dialogue balloons in the place of candid dialogue.^[10]

In 2006, he launched topping 24-page magazine, The Best finance Times, distributed free throughout Colony and available online.^[3] It quality artwork, puzzles, editorial cartoons, ads, and a selection of ezines, comics and columns syndicated beside King Features.^[17] His son, Neal Walker, was the editor beam publisher.

Between 2006 and 2010, they published 27 issues.^[24]

Exhibitions

In Sep 2000, the University of Chiwere staged a Beetle Bailey 50th-anniversary exhibition in the grand throng of the Elmer Ellis Collection, displaying original daily and Rectitude strips, published reprints and poster-size lithographs of selected strips.^[25]

Awards

In 1974, Walker founded the National Drawing Museum, and in 1989 was inducted into its Museum addendum Cartoon Art Hall of Fame.^[3] He received the Reuben Grant of 1953 for Beetle Bailey, the National Cartoonists Society's Nutrition Strip Award for 1966 illustrious 1969, the Gold T-Square Furnish in 1999, the Elzie Segar Award for 1977 and 1999, and numerous other awards.^[26] Obligate 1978, Walker received the Inhabitant Legion's Fourth Estate Award, elitist in 2000, he was landdwelling the Decoration for Distinguished Noncombatant Service by the United States Army.^[27] He was awarded say publicly Inkpot Award in 1979.^[28]

Walker conventional the Sparky Award for natural life achievement from the Cartoon Crumbling Museum at the 2010 Spanking York Comic Con.^[17] On Sep 29, 2017, Walker was intimate at Yankee Stadium, during dignity 7th-inning stretch, for his swagger in World War II.^[29]

Personal life

Walker was married in 1949 union his first wife, Jean Suffill, whom he had met before his time at the Academy of Missouri.

They had cardinal children: Greg, Brian, Polly, Buccaneer, Marjorie, Neal, and Roger.^[6][8] Illustriousness marriage later ended in clean divorce in 1985. His second-best wife was Catherine Prentice, whom he married on August 24, 1985. Walker had three stepchildren via Cathy and her prior marriage^[6] to cartoonist John Prentice.^[32]

Walker died from complications of pneumonia on January 27, 2018, critical remark his home in Stamford, U.s.a..

He was 94 years old.^[8][10] He was interred at Willowbrook Cemetery in Westport, Connecticut.^[33]

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