You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

After the war he was posted to Italy where he was in charge of an Italian guard company. It features artwork puzzles editorial cartoons ads and a selection of articles comics and columns syndicated by King Features.

He has signed Addison to some of his strips. Addison Morton Walker (born September 3 1923) popularly known as Mort Walker is an American comic artist best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954.