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 Read Quote
Humor strips dominated what were called the funny papers early in the century, but by the 1920s and ’30s, adventure strips had taken over. With ‘Beetle Bailey,’ I revived the funny part of the funny papers, and I’d be proud to be remembered for that. Mort Walker Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I like a happy ending. That’s what I do all the time. I like to make people feel happy. Mort Walker Read Quote
