Interspersed with editorial comments throughout and an essay by Walker on his life and career.

This year promises to be the biggest year Beetle Bailey has had. Among the projects scheduled are: Beetle Bailey, the All-American Musical; a line of food and a retail store featuring Beetle dolls; posters and paraphernalia; a live-action movie; and Beetle Bailey Celebration, a collection of Beetle Bailey daily and Sunday strips.

From the very first Beetle Bailey strips on a college campus through Beetle's enlistment in the US army, this volume contains the first two years of Mort Walker's famous trips encompassing September 1950 through June 1952. Readers can now enjoy two separate casts of quirky characters, the first based on Moart Walker's fraternity brothers at the University of Missouri and the second on his Korean era stint in the Army. These are the strips that won him the Ruben Award in 1953. With an introduction by Mort Walker himself.

An entire year of Army antics from the recruits of Camp Swampy! Sgt. Snorkel chases Beetle, General Halftrack chases the women, Cosmo chases a fast buck, and Beetle Bailey chases the perfect nap! The gang's all here in the latest collection of award-winning zaniness! A favorite in newspapers for over 60 years, these brilliantly restored strips feature the adventures of one of America's best-loved cartoon strip characters.

This is the most comprehensive dictionary available on comic art produced around the world. The catalog provides detailed information about more than 60,000 cataloged books, magazines, scrapbooks, fanzines, comic books, and other materials in the Michigan State University Libraries, America's premiere library comics collection. The catalog lists both comics and works about comics. Each book or serial is listed by title, with entries as appropriate under author, subject, and series. Besides the traditional books and magazines, significant collections of microfilm, sound recordings, vertical files, and realia (mainly T-shirts) are included. Comics and related materials are grouped by nationality (e.g., French comics) and genre (e.g., funny animal comics). Several times larger than any previously published bibliography, list, or catalog on the comic arts, this unique international dictionary catalog is indispensible for all scholars and students of comics and the broad field of popular culture.

Cartoons portray the humorous adventures of the soldier, Beetle Bailey, and his efforts to avoid work

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