He drew for his student newspaper while in elementary school, began selling cartoons to magazines at 14 and became the chief editorial designer for Hallmark greeting cards at 18.
3, 1923, in El Dorado, Kan., and grew up in Kansas City, Mo., where his father, Robin, was an architect and his mother, the former Carolyn Richards, worked as a newspaper illustrator. Walker recalled it, served only to boost the comic strip’s profile, and it was eventually syndicated in some 1,800 newspapers around the world.īrian Walker said that the strip will continue, and that he and his brother Greg had been working on it with their father for decades.Īddison Morton Walker was born on Sept. The ban, reported in the press with no small degree of ridicule and continuing for about a decade, as Mr. The newspaper Stars and Stripes, published for members of the armed forces, banned “Beetle Bailey” from its Tokyo edition in 1954, evidently a result of the military’s concern that discipline would lag after the end of the Korean War and that the comic strip might inspire disrespect for officers. Snorkel) and the bumbling Camp Swampy commander, Gen. The main character’s war was with the Army itself, and though he was never promoted beyond private, he bested the likes of the tough but ultimately endearing Sarge (officially Orville P.
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