Person in history
Mort Walker
Mort Walker, American cartoonist (born 1923)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2018 · January 27
- Known as
- comics artist, comics writer, and cartoonist. Citizenship: United States
Their story
Who they were
Addison Morton Walker was an American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954. He signed Addison to some of his strips.
Early life
Educated at: University of Missouri and Metropolitan Community College.
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 , [ 2 ] and later to Kansas City, Missouri , in late 1927, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] where his father, Robin Adair Walker (d. 1950), [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] was an architect, while his mother,
Path and career
Awards / honours: Inkpot Award, Reuben Award, Will Eisner Hall of Fame, and Gold T-Square Award.
Why this date
Mort Walker appears on our January 27 calendar for 2018 as a death entry.
Sources
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Questions about Mort Walker
When did Mort Walker die?
January 27 2018.
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