In this August 2010 file photo, Beetle Bailey comic artist and author Mort Walker stands in his studio in Stamford, Connecticut. Craig Ruttle/AP hide caption toggle caption Craig Ruttle/AP In this August 2010 file photo, Beetle Bailey comic artist and author Mort Walker stands in his studio in Stamford, Connecticut.Read More →
Mr. Walker worked with associates Jerry Dumas, Bob Gustafson and Bud Jones as well as several of his children to come up with ideas for gags. In addition to “Beetle Bailey”, he created “Hi and Lois”, starring Dik Browne, based on the lives of Mr. Walker’s family members; “Boner’s Ark,”Read More →
Born more than a century ago in Pittsburgh, Zelda Mavin Jackson went by her married last name in 1937 when she became the first African-American woman to create a comic strip for a syndicated newspaper. She’s been a trailblazer for decades, starting with the debut of “Torchy Brown in ‘DixieRead More →