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I like to keep doing something new and different so people can't say I'm doing the same thing all the time. I like to challenge myself.

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When I write 'Beetle Bailey,' I can always do jokes about him being lazy, and everyone gets it.

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I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you're not going to get their permission, because you're going to make fun of them!

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Beetle Bailey is actually me, in uniform. I've got about 20 characters, and they're all after friends of mine.

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I don't know how I'd be retired. I wake up every day with another idea.

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None of the established museums were treating cartoons seriously. It was considered a lesser art or no art at all, just a way to sell newspapers. Even the syndicates who were dedicated to the cartoons were throwing them out, figuring they had no value after they were printed.

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Belly buttons were a big battle of mine. Down at the syndicate, they would clip them out with a razor blade. I began putting so many of them in, in the margins and everywhere, that they had a little box down there called 'Beetle Bailey''s Belly-Button Box. The editors finally gave up after I did one strip showing a delivery of navel oranges.

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Humor strips dominated what were called the funny papers early in the century, but by the 1920s and '30s, adventure strips had taken over. With 'Beetle Bailey,' I revived the funny part of the funny papers, and I'd be proud to be remembered for that.

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Comics have always helped people to read. A lot of people learned to read by reading the comics. And it's our livelihood, after all. If people don't know how to read, they're not reading our comics.

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If I'm going on vacation, I just work ahead.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: September 3rd, 1923

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