![]() ![]() Classic Mauldin cartoons are an entertaining bonus. Drawing Fire: The Editorial Cartoons of Bill Mauldin by Todd DePastino Ph.D. Thoroughly researched and sprightly written, DePastino's balanced biography is a solid introduction to an American original. After the war, Mauldin published bestselling cartoon collections, worked briefly as an actor, ran unsuccessfully for Congress and ended his career with two Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning. George Patton, who threatened to throw Mauldin in jail for his characters' indolence. ![]() Willie and Joe became soldiers' heroes and anathema to brass such as Gen. In 1944, while on staff at the GI newspaper Stars and Stripes, Mauldin created his signature characters, the weary and disheveled infantrymen Willie and Joe. Deployed to North Africa in 1943, Mauldin participated in the invasions of Sicily and Italy. Mauldin then became the 45th Division News's cartoonist. After studying at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts for one year, he joined the newly mobilized 45th Infantry Division of the Arizona National Guard. Mauldin (1921 2003) grew up in Depression-era New Mexico in a dysfunctional family. Historian DePastino (Citizen Hobo) eloquently memorializes cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who won fame as "the leading spokesman for the American combat soldier" during World War II, in this authoritative biography. ![]()
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