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" 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
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" 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
" If I'm going on vacation, I just work ahead. "
Mort Walker
Ahead
Going
Just
" People take a liking to me like I'm a long-lost friend. "
Mort Walker
Friend
Like
Liking
" I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you're not going to get their permission, because you're going to make fun of them! "
Mort Walker
Fun
Book
Think
" 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
" Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it. "
Mort Walker
Authority
People
Here
" 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
" I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers. "
Mort Walker
Create
Readers
Friends
" None of the established museums were treating cartoons seriously. It was considered a lesser art or no art at all, just a way to sell newspapers. Even the syndicates who were dedicated to the cartoons were throwing them out, figuring they had no value after they were printed. "
Mort Walker
Museums
Way
Seriously
" 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 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 first sold a cartoon for five dollars. I was in the fifth grade. "
Mort Walker
Five
Cartoon
Sold
" Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did. "
Mort Walker
Everything
Research
Only
" Professionals don't get writer's block. I can always come up with the punch line. "
Mort Walker
Up
Punch
Writer
" Seven days without laughter makes one weak. "
Mort Walker
Without
Laughter
Weak
" I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in. "
Mort Walker
Stars
Out
Stripes
" 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
" 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
" Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. "
Mort Walker
Your
Laughter
Heart
" 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
" 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
" Old cartoonists never retire, they just erase away. "
Mort Walker
Erase
Retire
Old
" My father was a dreamer who was always broke. He wanted to be a cartoonist. "
Mort Walker
He
Always
Broke
" 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 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
" 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
" Belly buttons were a big battle of mine. Down at the syndicate, they would clip them out with a razor blade. I began putting so many of them in, in the margins and everywhere, that they had a little box down there called 'Beetle Bailey''s Belly-Button Box. The editors finally gave up after I did one strip showing a delivery of navel oranges. "
Mort Walker
Mine
Big
Box
" I don't know how I'd be retired. I wake up every day with another idea. "
Mort Walker
Wake Up
Every Day
Idea
" 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