What is Mort Walker?
{{Infobox person | name = Mort Walker | image = Mort Walker 1.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | alt = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1923|09|03}} | birth_place = [[El Dorado, Kansas|El Dorado]], [[Kansas]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|1|27|1923|9|3}} | death_place = [[Stamford, Connecticut|Stamford]], [[Connecticut]] | nationality = American | area = | cartoonist = | write = | art = | pencil = | ink = | edit = | publish = | letter = | color = | alias = | signature = MortWalker.png | signature_alt = | notable works = ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'' <br>''[[Hi and Lois]]'' | awards = | website = | nonUS = | sortkey = <!-- for categorization --> | subcat = }} '''Addison Morton Walker''' (September 3, 1923 &ndash; January 27, 2018), popularly known as '''Mort Walker''', was an [[Americans|American]] comic artist. Walker was best known for creating the newspaper comic strips ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'' in 1950 and ''[[Hi and Lois]]'' in 1954. He has signed '''Addison''' to some of his strips. Walker was born on September 3, 1923 in [[El Dorado, Kansas|El Dorado]], [[Kansas]]. He was raised in [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]], [[Kansas]]. Walker studied at [[Northeast High School]] and at the [[University of Missouri]]. Walker died from complications of [[pneumonia]] on January 27, 2018 at his home in [[Stamford, Connecticut|Stamford]], [[Connecticut]]. He was 94 years old.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mort-walker-whose-beetle-bailey-was-a-comic-page-staple-for-decades-dies-at-94/2018/01/27/bcd374ec-039e-11e8-bb03-722769454f82_story.html?utm_term=.e018fd456db0|title=Mort Walker, whose ‘Beetle Bailey’ was a comic-page staple for decades, dies at 94|last=Bahrampour|first=Ali|date=January 27, 2018|accessdate=January 27, 2018}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites