During the heatwave, I spread a layer of mulch over my backyard in preparation for fruit tree planting and by the next day found a number of dead, shiny green beetles on top of the mulch. These were ...

STAMFORD, Conn. — A plan to open a National Cartoon Museum in Manhattan is more than a laughing matter to organizers such as Mort Walker, who created the “Beetle Bailey” comic strip. Comics tell the ...

Mort Walker, the creator of a comic strip that brought laughter to millions by showing the foibles of a lazy G.I., and who later founded the first museum dedicated to cartooning, has died. He was 94 ...