American - Artist | September 3, 1923 - January 27, 2018
I like a happy ending. That's what I do all the time. I like to make people feel happy.
Mort Walker
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You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
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Beetle is the embodiment of everybody's resistance to authority, all the rules and regulations which you've got to follow. He deals with it in his own way. And in a way, it's sort of what I did when I was in the Army. I just oftentimes did what I wanted to do.
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Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
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I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.
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When I write 'Beetle Bailey,' I can always do jokes about him being lazy, and everyone gets it.
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The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.
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I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers.
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Belly buttons were a big battle of mine. Down at the syndicate, they would clip them out with a razor blade. I began putting so many of them in, in the margins and everywhere, that they had a little box down there called 'Beetle Bailey''s Belly-Button Box. The editors finally gave up after I did one strip showing a delivery of navel oranges.
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Professionals don't get writer's block. I can always come up with the punch line.
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Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
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I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.
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