Editing Mort Walker (section)

==Books==
In addition to books about comics and children's books, Walker collected his strips into 92 "Beetle Bailey" paperbacks and 35 "Hi and Lois" paperbacks, plus writing his autobiography, ''Mort Walker's Scrapbook: Celebrating a Life of Love and Laughter''.<ref name="Adv"/>

In his book ''[[The Lexicon of Comicana]]'' (1980), written as a [[Satire|satirical]] look at the devices cartoonists use, Walker popularized{{efn|Although Walker is often credited with having created this terminology, in 2013, comics scholar [[Maggie Thompson]] discovered that Walker was using terms invented by Charles D. Rice, in an article published in ''[[This Week (magazine)|This Week]]'' and subsequently reprinted in ''What's Funny About That'' (1954). Thompson also observed that, although Walker credited these symbols to "Charlie Rice of ''This Week'' magazine" in his book ''Backstage at the Strips'' (1975), "many of us [including Thompson herself] had assumed [that this] was Mort's joke about an imaginary scholarly attribution".<ref name=Thompson>[https://www.comic-con.org/toucan/maggies-world-009-research-obsession-and-obsessive-research Maggie's World 009: Research, Obsession, and Obsessive Research], by [[Maggie Thompson]], at the ''[[San Diego Comic-Con]]''; published September 3, 2013; retrieved May 22, 2023</ref>}} a vocabulary called ''[[The Lexicon of Comicana|Symbolia]]'',<ref name="Kansas"/> including the term "squeans" to describe the starbusts and little circles that appear around a cartoon's head to indicate intoxication,<ref name="WPobit"/> and [[grawlixes]] to indicate the typographical symbols that stand for [[profanity|profanities]], which appear in dialogue balloons in the place of actual dialogue.<ref name="WPobit"/>

In 2006, he launched a 24-page magazine, ''The Best of Times'', distributed free throughout Connecticut and available online.<ref name="Adv"/> It features artwork, puzzles, editorial cartoons, ads, and a selection of articles, comics and columns syndicated by King Features.<ref name="Kansas"/> His son, Neal Walker, was the editor and publisher. Between 2006 and 2010, they published 27 issues.<ref>[http://www.thebestoftimes.us/ ''The Best of Times''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406050721/http://www.thebestoftimes.us/ |date=April 6, 2012 }}</ref>