Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Mort Walker

Born: September 3, 1923
Died: January 27, 2018 (aged 94)
Bio: Addison Morton Walker, popularly known as Mort Walker, was 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.
Known for:
- The Lexicon of Comicana (1980)
- Miss Buxley (1982)
- The best of Beetle Bailey (1978)
- Backstage at the Strips (1975)
- Beetle Bailey Celebration (1989)