Your favorite Beetle Bailey character

wednesday is miss buxley day!

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I have no idea who Rocky and COsmo are tbh!

I knew this was your poll the moment I saw the title!

So what's the deal with this comic's secret relationship with Hi + Lois?

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Mordy they are both Mort Walker joints!

also i love that beetle bailey used to be a totally different comic before it was about the army. so trippy.

Sarge is def the heart of Beetle Bailey with a charisma the titular character could never really muster imo

When he married Blondie, his rich family disowned him, and he had to join the army.

Always liked Cookie. Seemed like a dude.

I think General Halftrack is genuinely hilarious!

u know what's a messed up comic strip? snuffy smith

when was the Sarge dog introduced? i always felt like he was an attempt to get in on the very popular animals on the comics page situation

i won't derail further but man

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oh man Amon, Snuffy Smith is ridic

I want to know when Snuffy outpaced Barney Google.

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when did this guy go away and it all became abt little brown jug folk?

when was the Sarge dog introduced? i always felt like he was an attempt to get in on the very popular animals on the comics page situation

I like this hypothesis but M0rt did a shit job of it bcz he is just a tiny military jerk with a dog head.

yeah i never got why barney google was still in the title

votewise id probably go with beetle for his consistent trolling of sarge

actually he was just lazy wasn't he and sarge would just pound the crap out of him for it

I have no idea who Rocky and COsmo are tbh!

Cosmo had a bigger role in the early BB strips, basically his schtick was that he bartered for everything with everyone. I don't think he's been in the strips for decades, except for an occasional cameo. Rocky is a "greaser" type of rock & roll fellow, used to represent counterculture in the strip (though it was a bit unclear why such a guy would ever enlist in the army).

BTW, you forgot to include Martha Halftrack and Corporal Yo.

Martha is at the bottom. I don't really why you'd be sad at he exclusion as she's just the instigator/punchline of "ain't wives harpies?" jokes. I will, however, apologize for the exclusion of Yo.

reading this strip as a kid I used to wonder "why aren't these guys in vietnam"

Rocky runs his private PX, can get you porn and clean needles.

how could you forget GIZMO, the technology-loving soldier whose introduction began a contest to name him? people all over the world put their heads together to think of the perfect name, and produced "gizmo".

I used to go to school with this slacker.

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There's a Beetle statue on the campus I work at.
Mort is an MU Legacy.
lolol xpost

although thread has made me realize how good most of the names in this strip are. "lieutenant jackson flap". "amos t. halftrack" is pretty perelman.

Maybe next I will have Beetle Bailey minor characters poll so all three interested people can rack up a vote for Dr. Bonkus or whoever.

Through this poll I've come to realize that Beetle Bailey himself is just a cipher.

voted for halftrack btw because he looks like my friend's dad who was in the air force and when i was a kid i basically thought they were the same person.

finally broke down and voted for Miss buxley what can i say i'm weak

omg difficult listening hour! Did the guy golf?

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(not funny but I wanted to show GHt's golfin duds)

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It turns out Lois of "Hi &" is Beetle's sister.

miss buxley day tomorrow!

xp did u find that out from the same place i discovered beetle + lois' younger brother is apparently named chigger?!

haha yes!

mistakenly voted for sarge, but in my heart it's either buxley or halftrack

I love COmics Curmudgeon, he is the only reason half of those lockhorns comics are on google image search.

in my heart it's either buxley or halftrack

this is OTM

In the Calvin & Hobbes 10th Anniversary book, Watterson defends his practices (insisting on writing/penciling/inking every strip himself without assistants) by saying something like, "Maybe some cartoonists can meet their standards of quality and be on the golf course by noon, but that's not how I work." It seemed to be directed at Walker, and in fact (in the awful Watterson "bio" that came out last year) Walker said he loved C&H but thought Watterson was kind of a dick.

Not going to tell people how to vote but moustache gives away his erections sounds like the ilx choice to me

Actually more the ilm choice when I think about it

Hi & Lois was much more different back in the day. Lois was a starry housewife with yellow pills in her eyes and Hi was a cigarette-smokin' Mad Man kind of guy.

They later wrote Beetle out and pulled Chip's hat over his eyes.

Also, Beetle's original name was Spider.

(Trip Store is right. You learn many interesting things by going to school in Mid-Missouri.)

in the old smithsonian book of newspaper comics (the best book ever!) it says something about how hi and lois has "a not always obvious element of distaste and even dislike."

it always surprises me how funny vintage beetle bailey strips are when i see them, like the '50s/'60s ones. i'd probably even buy a volume or two if they did the complete set.

Yeah, the old strips are really funny, I recommend checking them out if you have the chance.

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oh ilx predictable

loool

Rule 34 in full effect on a GIS everyone.

Actually, that one doesn't really qualify as a 34 when you think about it.

Mort Walker's dirty Beetle Bailey cartoons

glad I wasn't the only vote for Cookie

No-one voted for Beetle?

Beetle is like the Barney Miller of the strip

haha, otm.

I am TOO STOKED on my very own drawing of General Halftrack!

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Awesome!

I love it when the artist's handwriting matches the lettering in his comics. Obvious, I know, but still.

Heheh so great.

Masterful poll, sorry I missed it. Anyone else notice an uptick in bleak Halftrack alcoholism gags recently?

Ha that is exactly what my letter to Mort was about!

plz tell me you conducted a snail mail intervention with mort walker

Happy 89th Birthday, Mort

Beetle Bailey's voice in this animated cartoon is tripping me out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMi-9WqY1rw

i would love to see a MAD movie parody of From Here to Eternity, drawn in the style of BB.