Overview
If a number of words like "plewds," "briffits," "hites," and "grawlixes" have entered your vocabulary, you can thank Mort Walker.Written as a satire on the comic devices cartoonists use, The Lexicon of Comicana quickly became a textbook for art students. Walker researched cartoons around the world to collect this international set of cartoon symbols. The names he invented for them now appear in dictionaries.
Author Biography: Mort Walker is the creator of the comic strips "Beetle Bailey" and "Hi and Lois," with several hundred books in print including anthologies, children’s books, instruction and non-fiction. He has won many worldwide awards and founded the International Museum of Cartoon Art and serves as chairman.
Synopsis
If a number of words like "plewds," "briffits," "hites," and "grawlixes" have entered your vocabulary, you can thank Mort Walker.
Written as a satire on the comic devices cartoonists use, The Lexicon of Comicana quickly became a textbook for art students. Walker researched cartoons around the world to collect this international set of cartoon symbols. The names he invented for them now appear in dictionaries.
Author Biography: Mort Walker is the creator of the comic strips "Beetle Bailey" and "Hi and Lois," with several hundred books in print including anthologies, children s books, instruction and non-fiction. He has won many worldwide awards and founded the International Museum of Cartoon Art and serves as chairman.