Brian Walker

A handsome coffee-table career retrospective of one of the most respected, dedicated, and prolific cartoonists in the history of comics, Beetle Bailey's Mort Walker. "Old cartoonists never die. They just erase away..." This was one of Mort Walker's favourite sayings, and until his final days, he lived by his motto, engaging millions of readers through his beloved comics. Walker had...

Floods, fires, famines, epidemics and disasters of all kinds are on the increase, and as their frequency rises so does the call for greater resilience. But what does that mean? The word is used differently in psychology, ecology, economics and engineering and runs the risk of becoming meaningless jargon. This would be most unfortunate because, if we are to successfully...