By: Mort Walker Publisher: Backinprint.com Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Backinprint.com Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 242 Publication Date: June 10, 2005
Product Description: Beetle Bailey has over 200 million daily readers and appears in almost 2,000 newspapers worldwide. Few strips have the popularity of staying power of Beetle Bailey, able to entertain readers for over five decades. As creator or co-creator of eight other popular comic strips, including Hi & Lois and Boner’s Ark, Mort Walker is the most widely published cartoonist in comics history. It’s a testament to Walker’s genius and Beetles’ Universal appeal.
Walker created Beetle Bailey just before the Korean War, and the strip has evolved into a comics page staple where the fun, but ineffectual, denizens of Camp Swampy exist in a place long forgotten by the Pentagon. At the bottom of the heap is Beetle Bailey, the eternal private who sees his duty as sleeping whenever possible, needling Sarge, and avoiding work at all costs. But Sergeant Orville P. Snorkel has different ideas—he may beat up on “his boys,” but he then takes them out for a beer. General Halftrack is more concerned with ogling Miss Buxley than running the camp. And with inept officers like Major Greenbrass, Lieutenant Fuzz, and Lieutenant Flap, nothing ever gets done. But that doesn’t keep the troops from complaining, or getting into one hilarious mess after another.
Beetle Bailey, the character, may never get a promotion, but Beetle Bailey, the comic strip, has made it to the top.
Wonderful collection for all Beetle Fans I had checked this out from the library at least a dozen times before finally finding a copy of my own. Beetle Bailey, while still pretty good, used to be one of the funniest comic strips of all time. This collection does a wonderful job of showcasing the development of the strip during its first 30 years, along with the evolving characters, characters who just didn't make it, censored gags that you never saw in the newspaper, and other gems. This is truly one of my favorites of all time, and I would highly recommend this to anyone who likes the strip or Mort Walker.
COMIC EVOLUTION This wonderful collection of Beetle Bailey strips takes the reader on a very funny path. The reader is treated to Beetle Bailey, the goof-off college student to Beetle Bailey, REPORTING FOR ACTIVE DUTY, SIR! We also see Sarge transformed from an officer with a medium build to the husky, lovable, short-fused Sarge we love today. We are introduced to a group of funny oddball characters, such as Zero, named for his I.Q, Lt. Fuzz, a lovable toady, General Half-Track, a funny figurehead and Killer Diller, the incurable romantic. Plato, the intellectual brings wisdom and reason into the mix; Rocky, the inveterate rebel a sense of alienation among his fellow enlisted men; Lt. Flap, a sense of decorum. He's one of the few no nonsense officers after Sarge! Cookie, the unappreciated camp cook who looks a lot like Sarge, Sarge's bull dog, Otto, the camp mascot and other very funny characters.
This is such a funny book. Let Private Beetle Bailey teach you the finer points of Sarge baiting, bull dog chasing, work dodging and Cookie crumbling. This book is a treasure for true fans of the strip.
The Best Beetle book ever Published not long after the 30th aniversery of the strip and featuring highlights going back to its early days as a college-oriented rather than military themed strip, "The Best of Beetle Bailey" is a must own for fans. It features autobiographical material of creator Mort Walker as well as the best bits from the strip's 60s and 70s heyday. This is a vital book for understanding the history of the strip.
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