Mort Walker
If a number of words like "plewds," "briffits," "hites," and "grawlixes" have entered your vocabulary, you can thank Mort Walker.,Written as a satire on the comic devices cartoonists use, ,The Lexicon of Comicana, quickly became a textbook for art students. Walker researched cartoons around the world to collect this international set of cartoon symbols. The names he invented for them now appear in dictionaries.,Author Biography: Mort Walker is the creator of the comic strips ,Beetle Bailey, and ,Hi and Lois,, with several hundred books in print including anthologies, children's books, instruction and nonfiction. He has won many worldwide awards and founded the International Museum of Cartoon Art and serves as chairman.
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The Lexicon of Comicana