Mort Walker — American Artist born on September 03, 1923,

Addison Morton Walker, popularly known as Mort Walker, is an American comic artist 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... (wikipedia)

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.
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.
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.