Editing Mort Walker (section)

==Comic strips==
Walker graduated in 1948 from the [[University of Missouri]], where he was the editor and art director of the college's humor magazine, ''Showme'', and was president of the local [[Kappa Sigma]] chapter.<ref name="Adv"/> After graduation, Walker went to New York to pursue a career in cartooning. He began doing ''Spider'', a one-panel series for ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'', about a lazy, laid-back college student.<ref name="Kansas">{{cite web|url=http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article197046299.html|title='Beetle Bailey' Creator Mort Walker Dies|publisher=Wichita Eagle|access-date=January 27, 2018|date=January 27, 2018}}</ref> When he decided he could make more money doing a multi-panel comic strip, ''Spider'' morphed into ''Beetle Bailey'', eventually distributed by [[King Features Syndicate]] to 1,800 newspapers in more than 50 countries for a combined readership of 200 million daily.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20111013014832/http://www.checkerbpg.com/books/bb1_03.php ''Spider'']}}</ref>

In 1954, Walker and [[Dik Browne]] teamed to launch ''[[Hi and Lois]]'', a spin-off of ''Beetle Bailey'' (Lois was Beetle's sister).<ref name="Kansas"/> Under the pseudonym "Addison", Walker began ''[[Boner's Ark]]'' in 1968.<ref name="Kansas"/> Other comic strips created by Walker include ''Gamin and Patches'',<ref>[http://toonopedia.com/gamin.htm ''Gamin and Patches''] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [https://archive.today/20240527221953/https://www.webcitation.org/6jRyLcpVc?url=http://toonopedia.com/gamin.htm Archived] from the original on August 1, 2016.</ref> ''Mrs. Fitz's Flats'', ''The Evermores'' (with Johnny Sajem),<ref>"Newswatch: ''Evermores'' Debut," ''The Comics Journal'' #73 (July 1982).</ref> ''[[Sam's Strip]]'', and ''[[Sam and Silo]]'' (the last two with [[Jerry Dumas]]).<ref name="Adv"/> In 2008 the collection was moved to the [[Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum]] at [[Ohio State University]].

In 1974, Walker opened the [[National Cartoon Museum|Museum of Cartoon Art]], the first museum devoted to the art of comics.<ref name="IMC"/> It was initially located in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]], and [[Rye Brook, New York]], before moving to [[Boca Raton, Florida]], in 1992.<ref name="IMC">{{Cite web|url=http://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.11/2.11pages/2.11charlacartoon.html|title=The International Museum of Cartoon Art|last=Charla|first=Steve|website=www.awn.com|access-date=January 31, 2017}}</ref>

During his life he drew special drawings for individuals, in particular for those who were ill.<ref name="IMC"/>

From previous marriages, Walker and his wife, Catherine, had ten children between them.<ref name="WPobit"/> Walker's sons Brian and Greg Walker produce the ''Hi and Lois'' strip with [[Chance Browne]].<ref>" On today's comics page in ''The Advocate'' and ''Greenwich Time'', Beetle Bailey offers a salute along with the likes of ''Hi and Lois''...which is produced by Walker's sons Brian and Greg Walker and Chance Browne, the son of the late comics legend Dik Browne".  Mort Walker and Jason Whiton  ''Mort Walker : conversations'', Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005. {{ISBN|1578066999}} (p. 193)</ref>