Second Saturday Cartoonist: Brian Walker

Brian Walker has a diverse background in professional cartooning and cartoon scholarship. He is a founder and former director of the Museum of Cartoon Art. Since 1984, he has been part of the creative team that produces the comic strips Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois. He has written, edited or contributed to fifty-five books on cartoon art, including the definitive history, The Comics – The Complete Collection published by Abrams ComicArts. He has served as curator for seventy-five cartoon exhibitions including The Sunday Funnies: 100 Years of Comics in American Life, at the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 100 Years of American Comics at the Belgian Center for Comic Art in Brussels, Masters of American Comics at the Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and George Herriman – Krazy Kat is Krazy Kat is Krazy Kat at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. He was Editor-in-Chief of Collectors’ Showcase magazine from 1997 to 2000 and is the founder and current chairman of the Connecticut Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society.