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In 1954, Walker and Dik Browne teamed to launch Hi and Lois, a spin-off of Beetle Bailey (Lois was Beetle's sister). [17] Under the pseudonym "Addison", Walker began Boner's Ark in 1968. [ 17 ] Other comic strips created by Walker include Gamin and Patches , [ 19 ] Mrs. Fitz's Flats , The Evermores (with Johnny Sajem), [ 20 ] Sam's Strip , and ...
The two would get into real estate development once again and buy over 3,000 vacant lots from Atlantic. It was part of a plan by Atlantic to get $200 million to sell off half of the 87,000 acres and 9 water processing plants it had, but this idea "never fully materialized," with Atlantic filing for bankruptcy protection in 2001.
In 1954, cartoonist Mort Walker, seeing the Mounds candy bar ad, [10] enlisted Browne [10] to co-create the comic strip Hi and Lois, a spin-off of Walker's popular Beetle Bailey strip, featuring Beetle's sister, brother-in-law and their family. Walker wrote the strip, which Browne illustrated until his death.
One of the oldest towns on Florida's west coast, Dunedin features a walkable downtown, four miles of beach known as Honeymoon Island, and popular craft breweries—all about an hour from Tampa ...
In 1996, Rutenberg was inducted into the Florida Housing Hall of Fame, and in 2008, was quoted as an expert on the housing industry slump in the Saint Petersburg Times, [6] the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, [7] and the Orlando Sentinel. Both the Sentinel and Tampa Bay Home Seeker have called Rutenberg a "legendary builder."
Gulf American Land Corporation (GALC) was a land development company in Florida founded by brothers Leonard and Jack Rosen. During the late 1950s and 1960s, GALC was the largest land sales company in the United States . [ 2 ]
Ron Goulart praised Dik Browne's artwork for the strip, stating "Browne made Hi and Lois one of the most visually interesting strips on the comics page." [1] In an article for Entertainment Weekly reviewing then-current comic strips, Ken Tucker gave Hi and Lois a B+ rating, and added that it had the "gentlest humor" of all the Mort Walker comic strips.
Walker began preserving cartoon artwork in the 1940s, when he discovered King Features Syndicate using Krazy Kat drawings to sop up water leaks. [3] Walker lived in Greenwich, Connecticut , and in 1974, with a contribution of $50,000 from the Hearst Foundation , he opened his museum nearby at 850 Canal Street in Stamford, Connecticut .