That's the winning name, from among 84,324 suggestions, for the new character -- a computer technician -- in the venerable Beetle Bailey cartoon strip. Mort Walker, who has been drawing Beetle, Sarge and Gen. Halftrack since 1950, says he's just reacting to the times by bringing a geek into Camp Swampy. Walker has done it before, introducing Lt. Jack Flap, a black army officer, to Beetle Bailey in 1970, when blacks were not seen in white comic strips.
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That's the winning name, from among 84,324 suggestions, for the new character -- a computer technician -- in the venerable Beetle Bailey cartoon strip. Mort Walker, who has been drawing Beetle, Sarge and Gen. Halftrack since 1950, says he's just reacting to the times by bringing a geek into Camp Swampy. Walker has done it before, introducing Lt. Jack Flap, a black army officer, to Beetle Bailey in 1970, when blacks were not seen in white comic strips.
