Mort Walker Quotes

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When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

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None of the established museums were treating cartoons seriously. It was considered a lesser art or no art at all, just a way to sell newspapers. Even the syndicates who were dedicated to the cartoons were throwing them out, figuring they had no value after they were printed.

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At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.

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Beetle Bailey is actually me, in uniform. I’ve got about 20 characters, and they’re all after friends of mine.

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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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The frustration of being ordered around by somebody to do something – everyone can relate to that. I think Beetle represents that – the common man caught in that morass of rules and regulations. I don’t even think of it as an army strip… it’s a world anyone can understand.

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Comics have always helped people to read. A lot of people learned to read by reading the comics. And it’s our livelihood, after all. If people don’t know how to read, they’re not reading our comics.

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You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history.

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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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I’ve always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers.

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I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

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I like to keep doing something new and different so people can’t say I’m doing the same thing all the time. I like to challenge myself.

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I first sold a cartoon for five dollars. I was in the fifth grade.

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People take a liking to me like I’m a long-lost friend.

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If I’m going on vacation, I just work ahead.

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Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it.

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Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

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I go to the grocery store with my wife. She goes off to buy something. Where is she, anyways? So I ask the manager, ‘What aisle do they keep the wives in?’

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Most people are sort of against authority. Here’s Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it.

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About the only way you can find out about the common man, his slang, what he looked like, what he thought, is through the comic strips. It’s a powerful way for young people to learn history.

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When I first started, you couldn’t mention divorce or death. You couldn’t show smelly socks. You couldn’t show a snake. They took a skunk out of my strip one time.

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I like a happy ending. That’s what I do all the time. I like to make people feel happy.

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I think it’s legitimate to do satire. If you’re going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you’re not going to get their permission, because you’re going to make fun of them!

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Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

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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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Professionals don’t get writer‘s block. I can always come up with the punch line.

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I took my basic training on a golf course in Florida. Then I was on the boxing team. We did some demonstrations, and they put me in a theater one night and wanted me to box. So OK, I came out boxing with a friend – thinking we would just spar around – but the guy walked out, hit me, and knocked me out with one stroke.

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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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When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.

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