Mort Walker 1923- biographical file.

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Mort Walker 1923- biographical file.

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Biographical file may contain one or more of the following: "Biographical Registry" form filled out by the cartoonist including information about education, career history, awards, signature example, and family information; biographical essays or sketches of the cartoonist; articles by or about the cartoonist; examples of the cartoonist's work in the form of clippings or photocopies.

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Ohio State University. Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

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Walker, Mort

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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...