In 2000, Walker was honoured at the Pentagon with the Army’s highest civilian award — the Distinguished Civilian Service award — for his work, his military service and his contribution to a new military memorial. Both have worked in the family business for decades.Funeral services will be private.Walker attributed the success of the strip to Beetle’s indolence and reluctance to follow authority. "I make friends for people,” he said. "Here’s Beetle always challenging authority."Beetle Bailey” also featured one of the first African-American characters to be added to a white cast in an established comic strip.In 1943 he was drafted into the US Army, serving in Europe during World War II. The Tokyo editions of the military newspaper Stars & Stripes dropped it in 1954 for fear that it would encourage disrespect of its officers. (Photo: AP) Los Angeles: Comic strip artist Mort Walker, a World War II veteran who satirized the Army and tickled millions of newspaper readers with the antics of the lazy private "Beetle Bailey,” died on Saturday. Walker changed Spider’s name and launched "Beetle Bailey” as a college humour strip in 1950. I think people relate to it.That wasn’t feasible because the general was such a fixture in the strip, Greg Walker said on Saturday. But his misgivings were overcome and Beetle "enlisted” in 1951..Fellow cartoonists remembered Walker on Saturday as a pleasant man who adored his fans. The premise was that Beetle went home on furlough to visit his sister Lois and brother-in-law Hi. It moved twice before closing in 2002 in Boca Raton, Florida, as the International Museum of Cartoon Art.”"Beetle Bailey,” which appeared in as many as 1,800 newspapers, sometimes sparked controversy.Walker began publishing cartoons at age 11 and was involved with more than a half-dozen comic strips in his career, including "Hi and Lois,” ″Boner’s Ark” and "Sam & Silo. His father’s advanced age was the cause of death, he said.At first the strip failed to attract readers and King Features Syndicate considered dropping it after just six months, Walker said in a 2000 interview with The Associated Press. He was 94.”"Beetle Bailey” led to spin-off comic strip "Hi and Lois,” which he created with Dik Browne, in 1954. He was discharged as a first lieutenant, graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia and pursued a career as a cartoonist in New York.Addison Morton Walker China xps foam Manufacturers was born on Sept 3, 1923, in El Dorado, Kansas, and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri.” But he found his greatest success drawing slacker Beetle, his hot-tempered sergeant and the rest of the gang at fictional Camp Swampy for nearly 70 years.In 1974, he founded the Museum of Cartoon Art in Connecticut to preserve and honour the art of comics.Besides sons Greg and Brian, Walker is survived by his second wife, Catherine; daughters Polly Blackstock and Margie Walker Hauer; sons Neal and Roger Walker; stepchildren Whitney Prentice and Priscilla Prentice Campbell and several grandchildren.) Lt Jack Flap debuted in the comic strip’s panels in 1970. 

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