Beetle Bailey
Beetle Bailey is a comic strip series created by Mort Walker with the character of the same name as the main character. The first episode appeared on September 4, 1950.
action
Bailey is a simple soldier who has to endure his adventure in an army camp. In addition, the same supporting characters, such as his sergeant and the cook of the unit, appear regularly. Bailey is notorious for being lazy.
Creation and publication
Originally designed as a series about a college student, Beetle Bailey began publication in twelve newspapers on September 4, 1950. Due to the lack of response, the King Features Syndicate, which sells the strip, considered discontinuing the comic, so Walker changed the concept so that the title character signed up for the Army on March 3, 1951 and the action took place at the fictional Camp Swampy from then on . Against the backdrop of the Korean War , over 100 other newspapers took over the strip. A reintegration into civil life after the end of the war led to reader reactions, so that Beetle Bailey quickly returned to Camp Swampy.
In Germany, Beetle Bailey appeared under the title Schütze A at Illu Press and under its original name at Ehapa Verlag .
background
Walker received the Reuben Award in 1953 for Beetle Bailey . Sister and brother-in-law of Beetle Bailey , with whom he stayed after the end of the Korean War, got their own series from October 18, 1954 with Hi and Lois .
By 1965, Beetle Bailey had already reached a thousand daily newspapers. In the mid-1990s, the distribution rose to 1,800 newspapers worldwide.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 101.
- ↑ a b About on beetlebailey.com (English), accessed on September 29, 2015
- ↑ Mort Walker on comicguide.de , accessed September 29, 2015
- ↑ The Reuben Award at reuben.org (English), accessed on September 29, 2015