The Mort Walker collection : papers, 1946-[ongoing]. 1946-

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

The Mort Walker collection : papers, 1946-[ongoing]. 1946-

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44671268

Focus of the collection is on Mort Walker's visit to the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1992 as a Scholar-in-Residence, including the unveiling of a bronze statue of Beetle Bailey. The collection includes original cartoons, animation cels, books, lithographs, photographs, and posters donated by Walker to the University Libraries. It also includes newspaper articles about the visit, and reproductions of Walker's work as editor/art editor of Showme, a humor magazine produced by students of the University of Missouri, 1946 and 1947.

4 photographs.

University of Missouri -- Columbia, MU Libraries; University of Missouri; MU; Ellis Library; University of Missouri Columbia

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7544634

University of Missouri -- Columbia, MU Libraries; University of Missouri; MU; Ellis Library; University of Missouri Columbia

Related Entities

There are 9 Entities related to this resource.

Comic Collection (University of Missouri--Columbia. Libraries)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ds3mm4 (corporateBody)

University of Missouri--Columbia

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6844hxh (corporateBody)

King Features Syndicate.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68m21hd (corporateBody)

Comic Art Collection.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rc544s (corporateBody)

Walker, Mort

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h70s1v (person)

Born Addison Morton Walker in Eldorado, Kansas in 1923; reared in Kansas City; graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia; and served with the U.S. Army in Italy as a 1st Lieutenant in World War II. At age twelve he sold his first cartoon, at fifteen was drawing a comic strip, The Lime Juicers, for the Kansas City Journal. At twenty-six he married Jean Walker and created Beetle Bailey which he sold to King Features Syndicate. His honors include the Reuben Award, 1953; "Silver Lady" outst...

Mort Walker collection.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n959jm (corporateBody)

International Museum of Cartoon Art (Boca Raton, Fla.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69d4x0f (corporateBody)

Museum of Cartoon Art

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60w263c (corporateBody)