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" I don't know how I'd be retired. I wake up every day with another idea. "
Mort Walker
Wake Up
Every Day
Idea
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" If I'm going on vacation, I just work ahead. "
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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. "
Mort Walker
World
Rules
Man
" 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. "
Mort Walker
Challenge
People
Time
" Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it. "
Mort Walker
Authority
People
Here
" 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. "
Mort Walker
Man
History
People
" When I write 'Beetle Bailey,' I can always do jokes about him being lazy, and everyone gets it. "
Mort Walker
Always
Jokes
I Can
" 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. "
Mort Walker
Reading
Always
How
" Seven days without laughter makes one weak. "
Mort Walker
Without
Laughter
Weak
" 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. "
Mort Walker
Black
Problems
Soldier
" 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. "
Mort Walker
Every Day
Thought
Routine
" Professionals don't get writer's block. I can always come up with the punch line. "
Mort Walker
Up
Punch
Writer
" 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. "
Mort Walker
Burden
Down
You
" My father was a dreamer who was always broke. He wanted to be a cartoonist. "
Mort Walker
He
Always
Broke
" 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?' "
Mort Walker
Wife
She
Off
" I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers. "
Mort Walker
Create
Readers
Friends
" I first sold a cartoon for five dollars. I was in the fifth grade. "
Mort Walker
Five
Cartoon
Sold
" I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in. "
Mort Walker
Stars
Out
Stripes
" 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. "
Mort Walker
You
Resistance
Authority
" Humor strips dominated what were called the funny papers early in the century, but by the 1920s and '30s, adventure strips had taken over. With 'Beetle Bailey,' I revived the funny part of the funny papers, and I'd be proud to be remembered for that. "
Mort Walker
Humor
Adventure
Proud
" Beetle Bailey is actually me, in uniform. I've got about 20 characters, and they're all after friends of mine. "
Mort Walker
Uniform
Friends
Got
" 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. "
Mort Walker
Training
Thinking
Night
" 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. "
Mort Walker
People
Army
Both Sides
" You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper. "
Mort Walker
My Own
Trying
You
" 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. "
Mort Walker
Socks
Death
Divorce
" Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. "
Mort Walker
Your
Laughter
Heart
" I like a happy ending. That's what I do all the time. I like to make people feel happy. "
Mort Walker
Feel
Ending
People
" People take a liking to me like I'm a long-lost friend. "
Mort Walker
Friend
Like
Liking
" Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it. "
Mort Walker
Just
Name
People
" I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars. "
Mort Walker
Gold
You
Run
" Old cartoonists never retire, they just erase away. "
Mort Walker
Erase
Retire
Old