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COMIC ARTIST

Mort Walker

1923 - 2018

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Addison Morton Walker (September 3, 1923 – January 27, 2018) was an American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mort Walker has received more than 384,726 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mort Walker is the 142nd most popular comic artist (down from 111th in 2019), the 8,990th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,464th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Comic Artist.

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  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Mort Walker ranks 142 out of 174Before him are Moyoco Anno, Kouta Hirano, Tooru Fujisawa, Raymond Briggs, Harvey Kurtzman, and Inio Asano. After him are Lynn Okamoto, Guy Delisle, Momoko Sakura, Kiyohiko Azuma, Les Clark, and Mike Mignola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Mort Walker ranks 373Before him are Avram Davidson, Alice Ghostley, Robert Sabatier, Rose Marie, Ivano Blason, and Adolfo Schwelm Cruz. After him are Sam Rivers, Harish-Chandra, Dolores Fuller, Noël Vandernotte, Albert Decourtray, and Viktor Shuvalov. Among people deceased in 2018, Mort Walker ranks 393Before him are Apisai Ielemia, Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, Ray Wilkins, Randy Weston, Evy Berggren, and Peter Sutherland. After him are Geoff Murphy, Gary Kurtz, Bassano Staffieri, Yvonne Blake, Peter Hill-Wood, and Maurane.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mort Walker ranks 8,990 out of 18,182Before him are Ethan Phillips (1955), Allan Arbus (1918), Charlie Puth (1991), Robert M. La Follette (1855), Pam Shriver (1962), and Neal H. Moritz (1959). After him are Elaine Stewart (1930), Doug Collins (1951), Jim Backus (1913), Margaret Qualley (1994), Brad Wilk (1968), and Charles Sibley (1917).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Mort Walker ranks 32Before him are Richard Corben (1940), Alex Raymond (1909), Larry Lieber (1931), John Buscema (1927), George Herriman (1880), and Harvey Kurtzman (1924). After him are Les Clark (1907), Mike Mignola (1960), Harvey Pekar (1939), Neal Adams (1941), Marv Wolfman (1946), and Len Wein (1948).