US Secretary of State Colin Powell stands with Mort Walker, creator of the widely-circulated "Beetle Bailey" comic strip

Mort Walker, the artist and creator of the decades-long running comic strip "Beetle Bailey" about the antics of a work-shirking Army private, died at his home Saturday, his family said. He was 94. His son Greg Walker, who co-wrote the strip with his father in his later years, said his dad died at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, of pneumonia while recovering from a broken hip. Mort Walker drew his daily award-winning comic strip for 68 years, longer than any other comic strip artist, his son said.