I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers. Mort Walker More Quotes by Mort Walker More Quotes From Mort Walker Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. Mort Walker laughter heart happiness Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did. Mort Walker research knows writing Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves...but first you have to make some kind of move. Mort Walker life past moving 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 kansas-city cities trying I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in. Mort Walker stripes demise stars It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. Mort Walker success motivational sports Seven days without laughter makes one weak. Mort Walker happiness inspirational funny 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 car running believe 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 cartoon tables want 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 editors hurt war 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 two-sides army war When I draw, I rule the world. Mort Walker draws world You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. Mort Walker taught passion nice Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it. Mort Walker names people 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 stars soldier Old cartoonists never retire, they just erase away. Mort Walker old never just erase 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 down big battle I like a happy ending. That's what I do all the time. I like to make people feel happy. Mort Walker feel happy time people Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it. Mort Walker think always authority people I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him? Mort Walker army home war thinking
