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American comic strip cartoonist (1923–2018)

Addison Morton Walker (September 3, 1923 – January 27, 2018) was an American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954.

Born in in El Dorado, Kan., Walker published his first comic when he was He sold his first cartoon at 12, and at 14 he was selling gag cartoons.

Dubbed “The Dean of American Cartooning,” Walker was one of the most prolific cartoonists in the comics business, with the creation of nine different syndicated.

BIOGRAPHY.

Mort Walker was one of the best known gag-a-day cartoonists in the world.

He was founder of the first museum of comic art and holder of a world record: he drew Beetle Bailey for more than 67 years, longer than any cartoonist has ever.

He signed Addison to some of his strips.

Early life

Walker was born in El Dorado, Kansas, as the third of four children in the family. His siblings were Peggy W. Harman (1915–2012), Robin Ellis Walker (1918–2013) and Marilou W.

White (1927–2021).^[1] After a couple of years, his family moved to Amarillo, Texas, and later to Kansas City, Missouri, in late 1927,^[3] where his father, Robin Adair Walker (d. 1950),^[6] was an architect, while his mother, Carolyn Richards Walker (d.

1970),^[6] worked as a newspaper staff illustrator.^[8] He was of Scottish, Irish, and English descent. One of his ancestors was a doctor aboard the Mayflower.

During his elementary school years, he