Mort Walker Dies: Creator Of ‘Beetle Bailey’ Cartoon Was 94
Mort Walker, the creator of a comic strip that brought laughter to millions by showing the foibles of a lazy G.I., and who later founded the first museum dedicated to cartooning, has died.
He was 94 and passed way from pneumonia at his Stamford, Conn.
home, according to Bill Morrison, president of the National Cartoonists Society.
Walker drew his daily comic strip for 68 years, longer than any other Us artist in the history of the medium.
It debuted in 1950 and eventually…