- Created comic-strip "Beetle Bailey" in 1950. Also created "Hi and Lois" with Dik Browne in 1954.
- The comic strip "Beetle Bailey" started out as a rip-off of the TV series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" but then became the most famous strip to depict life in the army.
- Walker designed and created a bronze statue of his Beetle Bailey character that has resided on the campus of his alma mater, the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo., since 1992.
- A father of 10 children, from two wives.
- He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame in 2023.
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