Eldorado! Birthplace Of Beetle Bailey Creator Mort Walker!

   Drove through Eldorado, Kansas last month. It's one of 16 places named Eldorado in the United States, but it's the only one that can claim to being the birth place of Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey.

   I explored Eldorado fairly thoroughly - it wasn't difficult as it is a fairly small town - and was unable to locate anything that commemorated Mort having been born there. 

   Which is a shame, as Mort Walker created the very funny Beetle Bailey strip 73 years ago, and it is still being published to this day (since Mort's passing in 2018 it is being illustrated & written by three of Mort and first wife Jean's sons Brian, Greg and Neal). 

   At one time the Beetle Bailey strip was being published in over 1,800 newspapers and could boast over 200 million readers.

   That means that Mort Walker has been responsible for putting smiles on the faces of people all over the world every single day for over seven decades. The number of people who can be credited with that level of accomplishment is extremely small. 

   Like, miniscule.

   So, no memorial to Mort, but still an interesting little town. As you probably guessed, I took a few pictures.