Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When “Beetle Bailey” debuted in 1950, it was a college strip about a lanky underachiever who wanted to do as little as possible.

Frank M. Young never thought much of the Beetle Bailey comic strip, but that's mainly because he read it in the 1990s and after, by which time it had morphed into "predictable" and uninspired humor. A ...

“Old cartoonists never die. They just erase away…” It was one of Mort Walker’s favorite sayings, and until his final days, Walker lived by the word of his motto, engaging millions through his beloved ...

Mort Walker, the creator of “Beetle Bailey,” a comic strip about an Army private who malingered his way through seven decades at Camp Swampy to the consternation of his commanding officers and the ...

For millions of families, the comics section was the whole point of Sunday.

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Beetle Bailey is slouching toward retirement age, but the lazy Army private won't be getting rest anytime soon from his tour of duty on newspaper comics pages. The indolent wise ...

Fans of the long-running comic strip “Beetle Bailey” got a bit of a surprise June 16, when its creator, Mort Walker, chose to set aside his usual military-inspired humor to tackle a more serious ...

On Jan. 26, I wrote a letter to the editor regarding the aggressive behavior and bullying of Beetle Bailey by his sergeant. They were getting worse and happening for frequently. My letter was never ...