Mort Walker Papers 1950-1968

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Mort Walker Papers 1950-1968

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Over 2,000 pieces of original artwork for the comic strip as well as sketches, correspondence, clippings (of and ), proofs, promotional material and a student paper about and bureaucracy. Beetle Bailey Beetle Bailey Hi and Lois Beetle Bailey

26.4 linear ft.

eng,

Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

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King Features Syndicate.

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Walker, Mort

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Mort Walker (1923- ) is an American cartoonist who created the Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois comic strips. Addison Morton "Mort" Walker was born in Eldorado, Kansas on September 3, 1923 and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. His cartooning career started early; Walker published his first cartoon at age 11 and sold his first cartoon at age 12. For several months, when he was 15, Walker drew a strip for the Kansas City Journal . At 16, Walker worked at Hallmark Cards as a d...