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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• Mort Walker:

  When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Ba

• Mort Walker:

  When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They

• Mort Walker:

  At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoon

• Mort Walker:

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

• Mort Walker:

  Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think peop

• Mort Walker:

  I like to keep doing something new and different so people can't say I'm doing the same thing all t

• Mort Walker:

  When I write 'Beetle Bailey,' I can always do jokes about him being lazy, and everyone gets it.

• Mort Walker:

  I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe o

• Mort Walker:

  The frustration of being ordered around by somebody to do something - everyone can relate to that.

• Mort Walker:

  Beetle Bailey is actually me, in uniform. I've got about 20 characters, and they're all after frien