Miss Buxley: Sexism in Beetle Bailey?

In 1982, Mort Walker, the legendary creator of Beetle Bailey, turned his satirical eye inward with this one-shot Comicana special. The comic directly confronts the long-running criticism of the strip's portrayal of its secretary character, Miss Buxley, using Walker's own gag-driven style to explore the debate around sexism in the military workplace. It stands as a unique, self-aware artifact from a major newspaper strip, offering a creator's personal, and controversial, response to shifting social norms.