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

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Mort Walker
Age: 94 †
Born: 1923
Born: September 3
Died: 2018
Died: January 27
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El Dorado
Kansas
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When I draw, I rule the world.
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