Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Beetle Bailey</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-09-24
name: label: graphic artist
content: Walker, Mort
label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Beetle Bailey</i> comic strip shows Beetle asking what the Chaplain thinks about sneaking naps after being told “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.”
label: Description (Brief)
content: Addison Morton "Mort" Walker (1923- ) was first published at age eleven, and soon afterward was drawing a weekly cartoon for the <i>Kansas City Journal.</i> After U.S. Army service in World War II, Walker began drawing a cartoon named <i>Spider</i> for the <i>Saturday Evening Post.</i> King Features Syndicate later contracted with him for the related comic strip devoted to the character Beetle Bailey. Walker also wrote for <i>Hi and Lois,</i> considered to be a spin-off of <i>Beetle Bailey.</i> More recently Walker has drawn the strip with the help of his sons.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Beetle Bailey</i> (1950- ), a private in the U.S. Army, is regularly looking for a way to avoid doing work. He is memorable because his eyes are always covered by a hat or helmet. The strip location originally took place on a college campus but after a year Walker reimagined the location of the strip as a U.S. Army base called "Camp Swampy," where the characters seem to be stationed in never-ending basic training.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Comic Art
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22533
label: catalog number
content: 22533
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.8 cm x 48.7 cm; 6 1/4 in x 19 3/16 in