As the creator of the popular, long-running Beetle Bailey comic strip and the author of The Lexicon of Comicana, Mort Walker made an indelible contribution to the canon of cartooning! His son, Brian Walker, is keeping his legacy alive with two new books: Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey: 75 Years of Smiles, a handsome coffee-table career retrospective that pays homage to Mort’s prolific career, and NYRB’s The Lexicon of Comicana, a new edition of an iconic classic with an introduction by Chris Ware and a meticulous appendix by Brian. Join us for an evening of lively discussion between Brian and author, journalist, and editor Tim Dumas, son of Mort Walker’s longtime assistant Jerry Dumas, with a book signing to follow.
