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Bill Mauldin

William Henry Mauldin (/ˈmɔːldən/; October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003) was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field. His cartoons were popular with soldiers throughout Europe, and with civilians in the United States as well. However, his second Pulitzer Prize was for a cartoon published in 1958, and possibly his best-known cartoon was after the Kennedy assassination.

Bill Mauldin
Mauldin in 1945
Born
William Henry Mauldin

(1921-10-29)October 29, 1921
DiedJanuary 22, 2003(2003-01-22) (aged 81)
Resting placeArlington National Cemetery
38°52′48″N 77°04′12″W / 38.880°N 77.070°W / 38.880; -77.070
EducationChicago Academy of Fine Arts
Spouses
Norma Jean Humphries
(m. 1942; div. 1946)
Natalie Sarah Evans
(m. 1947; died 1971)
Christine Lund
(m. 1972)
Children7
Military service
BranchUnited States Army
RankTechnician Third Grade
Unit
Battles
Awards

Early life edit

Mauldin was born in Mountain Park, New Mexico, into a family with a tradition of military service. His father, Sidney Albert Mauldin (né Bissell, but adopted after being orphaned) served as an artilleryman in World War I. Bill's grandfather by way of his father's adoption, for whom Bill was named, had been a civilian scout in the Apache Wars. After his parents' divorce, Bill and his older brother Sidney moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1937 and attended Phoenix Union High School.[1] It was there that he began his career in editorial journalism—writing for PUHS's Coyote Journal.[2] Bill did not graduate with his class (he was later granted a diploma in 1945)[1] and in 1939 he took courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts where he studied political cartooning with Vaughn Shoemaker.[1] While in Chicago, Mauldin met Will Lang Jr. and became fast friends with him. Lang Jr. later became a journalist and a bureau head for Life magazine.[citation needed]

World War II edit

Shortly after returning to Phoenix in 1940, Mauldin enlisted in Company D, 120th Quartermaster Regiment, of the Arizona National Guard, at Phoenix, Arizona.[1] His division, the 45th Infantry Division, was federalized just two days later. While in the 45th, Mauldin volunteered to work for the unit's newspaper, drawing cartoons about regular soldiers or "dogfaces". Eventually he created two cartoon infantrymen, Willie and Joe, who represented the average American GI.[1]

 
"Me future is settled, Willie. I'm gonna be a perfessor on types o' European soil." First published in Stars and Stripes. Mediterranean edition, October 25, 1944.[3]

During July 1943, Mauldin's cartoon work continued when, as a sergeant of the 45th Infantry Division's press corps, he landed with the division in the invasion of Sicily and later in the Italian campaign.[4] Mauldin began working for Stars and Stripes, the American soldiers' newspaper; as well as the 45th Division News, until he was officially transferred to the Stars and Stripes in February 1944.[4] Egbert White, editor of the Stars and Stripes, encouraged Mauldin to syndicate his cartoons and helped him find an agent.[5] By March 1944, he was given his own jeep, in which he roamed the front, collecting material. He published six cartoons a week.[6] His cartoons were viewed by soldiers throughout Europe during World War II, and were also published in the United States. The War Office supported their syndication,[7] not only because they helped publicize the ground forces but also to show the grim side of war, which helped show that victory would not be easy.[8] While in Europe, Mauldin befriended a fellow soldier-cartoonist, Gregor Duncan, and was assigned to escort him for a time. (Duncan was killed at Anzio in May 1944.)[9]

 
Mauldin in uniform, 1945

Mauldin was not without his detractors. His images—which often parodied the Army's spit-shine and obedience-to-orders-without-question policy—offended some officers. After a Mauldin cartoon ridiculed Third Army commander General George Patton's decree that all soldiers be clean-shaven at all times—even in combat—Patton called Mauldin an "unpatriotic anarchist" and threatened to "throw [his] ass in jail" and ban Stars and Stripes from his command. General Dwight Eisenhower, Patton's superior, told Patton to leave Mauldin alone; he felt the cartoons gave the soldiers an outlet for their frustrations. "Stars and Stripes is the soldiers' paper," he told him, "and we won't interfere."[10]

In a 1989 interview, Mauldin said, "I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes."[11]

Mauldin's cartoons made him a hero to the common soldier. GIs often credited him with helping them to get through the rigors of the war. His credibility with the troops increased in September 1943, when he was wounded in the shoulder by a German mortar while visiting a machine gun crew near Monte Cassino.[4] By the end of the war, he received the Legion of Merit for his cartoons. Mauldin wanted Willie and Joe to be killed on the last day of combat, but Stars and Stripes dissuaded him.[6]

Postwar activities edit

In 1945, at the age of 23, Mauldin won a Pulitzer Prize for his wartime body of work, exemplified by a cartoon depicting exhausted infantrymen slogging through the rain, its caption mocking a typical late-war headline: "Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners".[12] The first civilian compilation of his work, Up Front, a collection of his cartoons interwoven with his observations of war, topped the best-seller list in 1945. After the war's end, the character of Willie was featured on the cover[13] of Time magazine for the June 18, 1945, issue. Mauldin made the cover of the July 21, 1961, issue.[14]

After the war, Mauldin turned to drawing political cartoons expressing a generally civil libertarian view associated with groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union. These were not well received by newspaper editors, who were hoping for apolitical cartoons. Mauldin's attempt to carry Willie and Joe into civilian life was also unsuccessful, as documented in his memoir Back Home in 1947. In 1951, he appeared with Audie Murphy in the John Huston film The Red Badge of Courage, and in Fred Zinnemann's Teresa.[15]

In 1956, he ran unsuccessfully for the United States Congress as a Democrat in New York's 28th congressional district. Mauldin said about his run for Congress:

I jumped in with both feet and campaigned for seven or eight months. I found myself stumping around up in these rural districts and my own background did hurt there. A farmer knows a farmer when he sees one. So when I was talking about their problems I was a very sincere candidate, but when they would ask me questions that had to do with foreign policy or national policy, obviously I was pretty far to the left of the mainstream up there. Again, I'm an old Truman Democrat, I'm not that far left, but by their lives I was pretty far left.[16]

 
Mauldin's 1958 cartoon for which he received his second Pulitzer Prize

In 1959, Mauldin won a second Pulitzer Prize, while working at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for a cartoon depicting Soviet author Boris Pasternak in a Gulag, asking another prisoner, "I won the Nobel Prize for literature. What was your crime?"[12] Pasternak had won the Nobel Prize for his novel Doctor Zhivago, but was not allowed to travel to Sweden to accept it. The following year Mauldin won the National Cartoonist Society Award for Editorial Cartooning. In 1961, he received their Reuben Award as well.

In addition to cartooning, Mauldin worked as a freelance writer. He also illustrated many articles for Life magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Sports Illustrated, and other publications. He brought back Joe as a war correspondent, writing letters to the stateside Willie. He made cartoons of Willie and Joe together only in tributes to the "soldiers' generals": Omar Bradley and George C. Marshall, after their deaths; for a Life article on the "New Army"; and as a salute to the late cartoonist Milton Caniff.

 
Mauldin's famous cartoon following the Kennedy assassination

In 1962, Mauldin moved to the Chicago Sun-Times. One of his most famous post-war cartoons was published in 1963, following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It depicted the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial, with his head in his hands.[5][17]

On 7 February 1965, while visiting his son who was serving with the U.S. Army at Camp Holloway, South Vietnam Mauldin was present for the Vietcong Attack on Camp Holloway.[18]

In 1969, Mauldin was commissioned by the National Safety Council to illustrate its annual booklet on traffic safety. These pamphlets were regularly issued without copyright, but for this issue the council noted that Mauldin's cartoons were under copyright, although the rest of the pamphlet was not.

In 1985, Mauldin won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.[19] Mauldin remained with the Sun-Times until his retirement in 1991.

He was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame on May 19, 1991.[20] On September 19, 2001, Sergeant Major of the Army Jack L. Tilley presented Mauldin with a personal letter from Army Chief of Staff General Eric K. Shinseki, and a hardbound book with notes from other senior Army leaders and several celebrities, including TV broadcasters Walter Cronkite and Tom Brokaw, and actor Tom Hanks. Tilley also promoted Mauldin to the honorary rank of first sergeant.[21]

Death and legacy edit

Mauldin died on January 22, 2003, from Alzheimer's disease and complications of injuries received in a recent accidental bathtub scalding.[5] He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery on January 29, 2003.[22] Married three times, he was survived by seven children. (His daughter Kaja had died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2001.)[6]

On March 31, 2010, the United States Post Office released a first-class denomination ($0.44) postage stamp in Mauldin's honor depicting him with Willie & Joe.[23] In June, 2000 Mauldin was inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame.[24]

In 2005, Mauldin was inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, by Michael Vance. The Oklahoma Cartoonists Collection, created by Vance, is located in the Toy and Action Figure Museum.

Museum holdings edit

The 45th Infantry Division Museum, located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, includes a substantial collection of cartoons by Mauldin.[25]

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library includes a substantial collection of cartoons by Mauldin.[26]

Bibliography edit

  • Star Spangled Banter – 1941
  • Sicily Sketchbook – 1943
  • Mud, Mules, and Mountains – 1944
  • News of the 45th (with Don Robinson) – 1944
  • Up Front. Norton. 1991. ISBN 9780393030532. – 1945
  • This Damn Tree Leaks – 1945
  • Back Home. 1947.– 1947
  • A Sort of a Saga. William Sloane Associates. 1949.– 1949
  • Bill Mauldin's Army. 1962. – 1951
  • Bill Mauldin in Korea. W. W. Norton & Company. 1952.– 1952
  • Up High with Bill Mauldin – 1956
  • What's Got Your Back Up? – 1961
  • I've Decided I Want My Seat Back. Harper & Row, Publishers. 1961. – 1965
  • Bill of Rights Day Celebration – 1969
  • The Brass Ring. 1971. – 1971
  • Name Your Poison – 1975
  • Mud and Guts. 1978. – 1978
  • Let's Declare Ourselves Winners and Get the Hell Out – 1985

In April 2008, Fantagraphics Books released a two-volume set of Mauldin's complete wartime Willie and Joe cartoons, edited by Todd DePastino, titled Willie & Joe: The WWII Years (ISBN 978-1-56097-838-1). A collection of post-war cartoons, Willie & Joe: Back Home, was published by Fantagraphics in August, 2011 (ISBN 978-1-60699-351-4).

Peanuts edit

From 1969 to 1998, cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (a veteran of World War II) regularly paid tribute to Bill Mauldin in his Peanuts comic strip on Veterans Day. In the strips, Snoopy, dressed as an army vet, would annually go to Mauldin's house to "quaff a few root beers and tell war stories." By the end of the strip, Schulz had depicted 17 of Snoopy's visits.[27] Schulz went so far as to include Willie and Joe in a 1998 strip, using a picture of the characters that had been copied out of a 1944 Mauldin panel.[28] Peanuts also paid tribute to Rosie the Riveter in 1976, and Ernie Pyle in 1997 and 1999.[27]

Filmography edit

The films Up Front (1951) and Back at the Front (1952) were based on Mauldin's Willie and Joe characters; however, when Mauldin's suggestions were ignored in favor of making a slapstick comedy, he returned his advising fee; he said he had never seen the result.[5]

Mauldin also appeared as an actor in the 1951 films The Red Badge of Courage and Teresa, and as himself in the 1998 documentary America in the '40s. He also appeared in on-screen interviews in the Thames documentary The World at War.[29]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e "Bill Mauldin's Early Years, 1938–1942: Bill Mauldin Beyond Willie and Joe: An online tribute drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress – Swann Foundation". The Library of Congress. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
  2. ^ Mauldin, Bill (1962). What's Got Your Back Up?. New York City: Popular Library. pp. v.
  3. ^ Mauldin, Bill (2008). Willie & Joe: the WWII years. DePastino, Todd (1st Fantagraphics books ed.). Seattle: Fantagraphics. p. 216. ISBN 978-1560978381. OCLC 154707341.
  4. ^ a b c DePastino, Willie & Joe. 2008.
  5. ^ a b c d Todd DePastino (2007). Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06183-3. OCLC 154706849.
  6. ^ a b c Michaelis, David. "He Drew Great Mud" April 24, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. The New York Times Sunday Book Review. March 2, 2008
  7. ^ Bill Mauldin, edited by Todd DePastino, 2008. Willie & Joe: The War Years p. 13 ISBN 978-1-56097-838-1
  8. ^ Mauldin and DePastino 2008. p. 15
  9. ^ Stolzer, Rob (December 25, 2017). . Hogan's Alley. Archived from the original on December 28, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  10. ^ Mauldin, B. Up Front. W.W. Norton (2000), pp. vi–vii. ISBN 0393050319.
  11. ^ Lamb, D. "Bill, Willie, and Joe". MHQ – The Quarterly Journal of Military History, vol. 1, issue 4 (summer, 1989), pp. 36–47.
  12. ^ a b "Editorial Cartooning" December 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
  13. ^ "Mauldin's 'Willie'". Time. June 18, 1945. from the original on September 4, 2019.
  14. ^ . Time. July 21, 1961. Archived from the original on January 17, 2008.
  15. ^ . The New York Times. (January 23, 2003). Retrieved September 27, 2016.
  16. ^ "A Turn in Career, 1950–1958" March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Bill Mauldin: Beyond Willie And Joe, An online tribute drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress – Swann Foundation, 2003
  17. ^ Mauldin, Bill (1965). I've Decided I Want My Seat Back. New York: Harper & Row. p. 74. Retrieved January 3, 2022.
  18. ^ "Vietnamese guard was half strength when Reds struck". The New York Times. February 8, 1965. p. 1.
  19. ^ Arizona State University (January 29, 2009). "Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication". Retrieved November 23, 2016.
  20. ^ St. Louis Walk of Fame. . stlouiswalkoffame.org. Archived from the original on October 31, 2012. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
  21. ^ Elder, p. 12
  22. ^ "Burial Detail: Mauldin, William H". ANC Explorer.
  23. ^ (archived link, June 6, 2011)
  24. ^ Fame, Oklahoma Military Hall of. . Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on December 31, 2021. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  25. ^ . www.45thdivisionmuseum.com. Archived from the original on August 6, 2019. Retrieved July 15, 2019.
  26. ^ "Search | Pritzker Military Museum & Library | Chicago". www.pritzkermilitary.org.
  27. ^ a b "Peanuts by Schulz". Comics.com. November 11 strips from 1969–70, '76, '79–81, '83, '85–89, '91–93, '96–99
  28. ^ Gertler, Nat (September 4, 2006). "That Schulz/Mauldin collaboration". The Aaugh Blog.
  29. ^ Bill Mauldin at IMDb

Further reading edit

  • DePastino, Todd. Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front (WW Norton & Company, 2008).
  • Heitzmann, William Ray. "The political cartoon as a teaching device." Teaching Political Science 6.2 (1979): 166-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/00922013.1979.11000158
  • McCarthy, Michael P. "Political Cartoons in the History Classroom." History Teacher 11.1 (1977): 29-38. online
  • Mauldin, Bill. Bill Mauldin's Army: Bill Mauldin's Greatest World War II Cartoons (Presidio Press, 1983).

External links edit

  • Arlington National Cemetery
  • Bill Mauldin Editorial Cartoons Collection at St. Louis Public Library
  • Bill Mauldin Editorial Cartoons Collection finding aid at the St. Louis Public Library
  • in Oklahoma City. Has an exhibit of more than 200 original cartoons from Mauldin's years with the division.
  • Jean Albano Gallery, representative of Mauldin's cartoons
  • "In Memoriam: Bill Mauldin", transcript and RealAudio of NewsHour, Jan. 23, 2003 December 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  • Bill Mauldin: Beyond Willie And Joe, An online tribute drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress
  • Works by or about Bill Mauldin at Internet Archive
  • Mauldin cartoons June 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine The American Experience, episode "War Letters" (PBS)
  • Interview with Todd DePastino on Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front, Pritzker Military Museum & Library
  • ANC Explorer
  • Bill Mauldin collection at The Newberry

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This article is about the cartoonist For the South Carolina politician see William L Mauldin William Henry Mauldin ˈ m ɔː l d en October 29 1921 January 22 2003 was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field His cartoons were popular with soldiers throughout Europe and with civilians in the United States as well However his second Pulitzer Prize was for a cartoon published in 1958 and possibly his best known cartoon was after the Kennedy assassination Bill MauldinMauldin in 1945BornWilliam Henry Mauldin 1921 10 29 October 29 1921Mountain Park New Mexico U S DiedJanuary 22 2003 2003 01 22 aged 81 Newport Beach California U S Resting placeArlington National Cemetery38 52 48 N 77 04 12 W 38 880 N 77 070 W 38 880 77 070EducationChicago Academy of Fine ArtsSpousesNorma Jean Humphries m 1942 div 1946 wbr Natalie Sarah Evans m 1947 died 1971 wbr Christine Lund m 1972 wbr Children7Military serviceBranchUnited States ArmyRankTechnician Third GradeUnit45th Infantry DivisionStars and StripesBattlesWorld War II Sicily Naples Foggia Anzio Rome Arno WIA Southern France Rhineland Ardennes Alsace Central EuropeAwardsLegion of MeritPurple Heart Contents 1 Early life 2 World War II 3 Postwar activities 4 Death and legacy 5 Museum holdings 6 Bibliography 7 Peanuts 8 Filmography 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksEarly life editMauldin was born in Mountain Park New Mexico into a family with a tradition of military service His father Sidney Albert Mauldin ne Bissell but adopted after being orphaned served as an artilleryman in World War I Bill s grandfather by way of his father s adoption for whom Bill was named had been a civilian scout in the Apache Wars After his parents divorce Bill and his older brother Sidney moved to Phoenix Arizona in 1937 and attended Phoenix Union High School 1 It was there that he began his career in editorial journalism writing for PUHS s Coyote Journal 2 Bill did not graduate with his class he was later granted a diploma in 1945 1 and in 1939 he took courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts where he studied political cartooning with Vaughn Shoemaker 1 While in Chicago Mauldin met Will Lang Jr and became fast friends with him Lang Jr later became a journalist and a bureau head for Life magazine citation needed World War II editShortly after returning to Phoenix in 1940 Mauldin enlisted in Company D 120th Quartermaster Regiment of the Arizona National Guard at Phoenix Arizona 1 His division the 45th Infantry Division was federalized just two days later While in the 45th Mauldin volunteered to work for the unit s newspaper drawing cartoons about regular soldiers or dogfaces Eventually he created two cartoon infantrymen Willie and Joe who represented the average American GI 1 nbsp Me future is settled Willie I m gonna be a perfessor on types o European soil First published in Stars and Stripes Mediterranean edition October 25 1944 3 During July 1943 Mauldin s cartoon work continued when as a sergeant of the 45th Infantry Division s press corps he landed with the division in the invasion of Sicily and later in the Italian campaign 4 Mauldin began working for Stars and Stripes the American soldiers newspaper as well as the 45th Division News until he was officially transferred to the Stars and Stripes in February 1944 4 Egbert White editor of the Stars and Stripes encouraged Mauldin to syndicate his cartoons and helped him find an agent 5 By March 1944 he was given his own jeep in which he roamed the front collecting material He published six cartoons a week 6 His cartoons were viewed by soldiers throughout Europe during World War II and were also published in the United States The War Office supported their syndication 7 not only because they helped publicize the ground forces but also to show the grim side of war which helped show that victory would not be easy 8 While in Europe Mauldin befriended a fellow soldier cartoonist Gregor Duncan and was assigned to escort him for a time Duncan was killed at Anzio in May 1944 9 nbsp Mauldin in uniform 1945Mauldin was not without his detractors His images which often parodied the Army s spit shine and obedience to orders without question policy offended some officers After a Mauldin cartoon ridiculed Third Army commander General George Patton s decree that all soldiers be clean shaven at all times even in combat Patton called Mauldin an unpatriotic anarchist and threatened to throw his ass in jail and ban Stars and Stripes from his command General Dwight Eisenhower Patton s superior told Patton to leave Mauldin alone he felt the cartoons gave the soldiers an outlet for their frustrations Stars and Stripes is the soldiers paper he told him and we won t interfere 10 In a 1989 interview Mauldin said I always admired Patton Oh sure the stupid bastard was crazy He was insane He thought he was living in the Dark Ages Soldiers were peasants to him I didn t like that attitude but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes 11 Mauldin s cartoons made him a hero to the common soldier GIs often credited him with helping them to get through the rigors of the war His credibility with the troops increased in September 1943 when he was wounded in the shoulder by a German mortar while visiting a machine gun crew near Monte Cassino 4 By the end of the war he received the Legion of Merit for his cartoons Mauldin wanted Willie and Joe to be killed on the last day of combat but Stars and Stripes dissuaded him 6 Postwar activities editIn 1945 at the age of 23 Mauldin won a Pulitzer Prize for his wartime body of work exemplified by a cartoon depicting exhausted infantrymen slogging through the rain its caption mocking a typical late war headline Fresh spirited American troops flushed with victory are bringing in thousands of hungry ragged battle weary prisoners 12 The first civilian compilation of his work Up Front a collection of his cartoons interwoven with his observations of war topped the best seller list in 1945 After the war s end the character of Willie was featured on the cover 13 of Time magazine for the June 18 1945 issue Mauldin made the cover of the July 21 1961 issue 14 After the war Mauldin turned to drawing political cartoons expressing a generally civil libertarian view associated with groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union These were not well received by newspaper editors who were hoping for apolitical cartoons Mauldin s attempt to carry Willie and Joe into civilian life was also unsuccessful as documented in his memoir Back Home in 1947 In 1951 he appeared with Audie Murphy in the John Huston film The Red Badge of Courage and in Fred Zinnemann s Teresa 15 In 1956 he ran unsuccessfully for the United States Congress as a Democrat in New York s 28th congressional district Mauldin said about his run for Congress I jumped in with both feet and campaigned for seven or eight months I found myself stumping around up in these rural districts and my own background did hurt there A farmer knows a farmer when he sees one So when I was talking about their problems I was a very sincere candidate but when they would ask me questions that had to do with foreign policy or national policy obviously I was pretty far to the left of the mainstream up there Again I m an old Truman Democrat I m not that far left but by their lives I was pretty far left 16 nbsp Mauldin s 1958 cartoon for which he received his second Pulitzer PrizeIn 1959 Mauldin won a second Pulitzer Prize while working at the St Louis Post Dispatch for a cartoon depicting Soviet author Boris Pasternak in a Gulag asking another prisoner I won the Nobel Prize for literature What was your crime 12 Pasternak had won the Nobel Prize for his novel Doctor Zhivago but was not allowed to travel to Sweden to accept it The following year Mauldin won the National Cartoonist Society Award for Editorial Cartooning In 1961 he received their Reuben Award as well In addition to cartooning Mauldin worked as a freelance writer He also illustrated many articles for Life magazine The Saturday Evening Post Sports Illustrated and other publications He brought back Joe as a war correspondent writing letters to the stateside Willie He made cartoons of Willie and Joe together only in tributes to the soldiers generals Omar Bradley and George C Marshall after their deaths for a Life article on the New Army and as a salute to the late cartoonist Milton Caniff nbsp Mauldin s famous cartoon following the Kennedy assassinationIn 1962 Mauldin moved to the Chicago Sun Times One of his most famous post war cartoons was published in 1963 following the assassination of President John F Kennedy It depicted the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial with his head in his hands 5 17 On 7 February 1965 while visiting his son who was serving with the U S Army at Camp Holloway South Vietnam Mauldin was present for the Vietcong Attack on Camp Holloway 18 In 1969 Mauldin was commissioned by the National Safety Council to illustrate its annual booklet on traffic safety These pamphlets were regularly issued without copyright but for this issue the council noted that Mauldin s cartoons were under copyright although the rest of the pamphlet was not In 1985 Mauldin won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism 19 Mauldin remained with the Sun Times until his retirement in 1991 He was inducted into the St Louis Walk of Fame on May 19 1991 20 On September 19 2001 Sergeant Major of the Army Jack L Tilley presented Mauldin with a personal letter from Army Chief of Staff General Eric K Shinseki and a hardbound book with notes from other senior Army leaders and several celebrities including TV broadcasters Walter Cronkite and Tom Brokaw and actor Tom Hanks Tilley also promoted Mauldin to the honorary rank of first sergeant 21 Death and legacy editMauldin died on January 22 2003 from Alzheimer s disease and complications of injuries received in a recent accidental bathtub scalding 5 He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery on January 29 2003 22 Married three times he was survived by seven children His daughter Kaja had died of non Hodgkin lymphoma in 2001 6 On March 31 2010 the United States Post Office released a first class denomination 0 44 postage stamp in Mauldin s honor depicting him with Willie amp Joe 23 In June 2000 Mauldin was inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame 24 In 2005 Mauldin was inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame in Pauls Valley Oklahoma by Michael Vance The Oklahoma Cartoonists Collection created by Vance is located in the Toy and Action Figure Museum Museum holdings editThe 45th Infantry Division Museum located in Oklahoma City Oklahoma includes a substantial collection of cartoons by Mauldin 25 The Pritzker Military Museum amp Library includes a substantial collection of cartoons by Mauldin 26 Bibliography editStar Spangled Banter 1941 Sicily Sketchbook 1943 Mud Mules and Mountains 1944 News of the 45th with Don Robinson 1944 Up Front Norton 1991 ISBN 9780393030532 1945 This Damn Tree Leaks 1945 Back Home 1947 1947 A Sort of a Saga William Sloane Associates 1949 1949 Bill Mauldin s Army 1962 1951 Bill Mauldin in Korea W W Norton amp Company 1952 1952 Up High with Bill Mauldin 1956 What s Got Your Back Up 1961 I ve Decided I Want My Seat Back Harper amp Row Publishers 1961 1965 Bill of Rights Day Celebration 1969 The Brass Ring 1971 1971 Name Your Poison 1975 Mud and Guts 1978 1978 Let s Declare Ourselves Winners and Get the Hell Out 1985In April 2008 Fantagraphics Books released a two volume set of Mauldin s complete wartime Willie and Joe cartoons edited by Todd DePastino titled Willie amp Joe The WWII Years ISBN 978 1 56097 838 1 A collection of post war cartoons Willie amp Joe Back Home was published by Fantagraphics in August 2011 ISBN 978 1 60699 351 4 Peanuts editFrom 1969 to 1998 cartoonist Charles M Schulz a veteran of World War II regularly paid tribute to Bill Mauldin in his Peanuts comic strip on Veterans Day In the strips Snoopy dressed as an army vet would annually go to Mauldin s house to quaff a few root beers and tell war stories By the end of the strip Schulz had depicted 17 of Snoopy s visits 27 Schulz went so far as to include Willie and Joe in a 1998 strip using a picture of the characters that had been copied out of a 1944 Mauldin panel 28 Peanuts also paid tribute to Rosie the Riveter in 1976 and Ernie Pyle in 1997 and 1999 27 Filmography editThe films Up Front 1951 and Back at the Front 1952 were based on Mauldin s Willie and Joe characters however when Mauldin s suggestions were ignored in favor of making a slapstick comedy he returned his advising fee he said he had never seen the result 5 Mauldin also appeared as an actor in the 1951 films The Red Badge of Courage and Teresa and as himself in the 1998 documentary America in the 40s He also appeared in on screen interviews in the Thames documentary The World at War 29 References edit a b c d e Bill Mauldin s Early Years 1938 1942 Bill Mauldin Beyond Willie and Joe An online tribute drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress Swann Foundation The Library of Congress Retrieved July 26 2021 Mauldin Bill 1962 What s Got Your Back Up New York City Popular Library pp v Mauldin Bill 2008 Willie amp Joe the WWII years DePastino Todd 1st Fantagraphics books ed Seattle Fantagraphics p 216 ISBN 978 1560978381 OCLC 154707341 a b c DePastino Willie amp Joe 2008 a b c d Todd DePastino 2007 Bill Mauldin A Life Up Front W W Norton ISBN 978 0 393 06183 3 OCLC 154706849 a b c Michaelis David He Drew Great Mud Archived April 24 2016 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times Sunday Book Review March 2 2008 Bill Mauldin edited by Todd DePastino 2008 Willie amp Joe The War Years p 13 ISBN 978 1 56097 838 1 Mauldin and DePastino 2008 p 15 Stolzer Rob December 25 2017 Gregor Duncan Pictures of Life Hogan s Alley Archived from the original on December 28 2017 Retrieved January 7 2018 Mauldin B Up Front W W Norton 2000 pp vi vii ISBN 0393050319 Lamb D Bill Willie and Joe MHQ The Quarterly Journal of Military History vol 1 issue 4 summer 1989 pp 36 47 a b Editorial Cartooning Archived December 24 2015 at the Wayback Machine The Pulitzer Prizes Retrieved 2013 11 01 Mauldin s Willie Time June 18 1945 Archived from the original on September 4 2019 Bill Maudlin Time July 21 1961 Archived from the original on January 17 2008 Bill Mauldin Cartoonist Who Showed World War II Through G I Eyes Dies at 81 The New York Times January 23 2003 Retrieved September 27 2016 A Turn in Career 1950 1958 Archived March 4 2016 at the Wayback Machine Bill Mauldin Beyond Willie And Joe An online tribute drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress Swann Foundation 2003 Mauldin Bill 1965 I ve Decided I Want My Seat Back New York Harper amp Row p 74 Retrieved January 3 2022 Vietnamese guard was half strength when Reds struck The New York Times February 8 1965 p 1 Arizona State University January 29 2009 Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication Retrieved November 23 2016 St Louis Walk of Fame St Louis Walk of Fame Inductees stlouiswalkoffame org Archived from the original on October 31 2012 Retrieved April 25 2013 Elder p 12 Burial Detail Mauldin William H ANC Explorer USPS News Release 2010 Stamp Program Unveiled Bill Mauldin archived link June 6 2011 Fame Oklahoma Military Hall of Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame Archived from the original on December 31 2021 Retrieved May 7 2021 45th Infantry Museum www 45thdivisionmuseum com Archived from the original on August 6 2019 Retrieved July 15 2019 Search Pritzker Military Museum amp Library Chicago www pritzkermilitary org a b Peanuts by Schulz Comics com November 11 strips from 1969 70 76 79 81 83 85 89 91 93 96 99 Gertler Nat September 4 2006 That Schulz Mauldin collaboration The Aaugh Blog Bill Mauldin at IMDbFurther reading editDePastino Todd Bill Mauldin A Life Up Front WW Norton amp Company 2008 Heitzmann William Ray The political cartoon as a teaching device Teaching Political Science 6 2 1979 166 184 https doi org 10 1080 00922013 1979 11000158 McCarthy Michael P Political Cartoons in the History Classroom History Teacher 11 1 1977 29 38 online Mauldin Bill Bill Mauldin s Army Bill Mauldin s Greatest World War II Cartoons Presidio Press 1983 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bill Mauldin nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Bill Mauldin Arlington National Cemetery Bill Mauldin Editorial Cartoons Collection at St Louis Public Library Bill Mauldin Editorial Cartoons Collection finding aid at the St Louis Public Library 45th Infantry Division Museum in Oklahoma City Has an exhibit of more than 200 original cartoons from Mauldin s years with the division Jean Albano Gallery representative of Mauldin s cartoons In Memoriam Bill Mauldin transcript and RealAudio of NewsHour Jan 23 2003 Archived December 9 2013 at the Wayback Machine Bill Mauldin Beyond Willie And Joe An online tribute drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress Works by or about Bill Mauldin at Internet Archive Mauldin cartoons Archived June 20 2010 at the Wayback Machine The American Experience episode War Letters PBS St Louis Walk of Fame Interview with Todd DePastino on Bill Mauldin A Life Up Front Pritzker Military Museum amp Library ANC Explorer Bill Mauldin collection at The Newberry Portals nbsp Biography nbsp Cartoon nbsp Film nbsp Journalism nbsp United States Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bill Mauldin amp oldid 1205268769, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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