William Henry Mauldin (; October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003) was an American

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ist who won two

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s 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

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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.

Early life

Mauldin was born in Mountain Park,

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, into a family with a tradition of military service. His father, Sidney Albert Mauldin (né Bissell, but adopted after being orphaned) served as an

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man in

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. Bill's grandfather by way of his father's adoption, for whom Bill was named, had been a civilian

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in the

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. After his parents' divorce, Bill and his older brother Sidney moved to

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in 1937 and attended Phoenix Union High School. It was there that he began his career in editorial journalismwriting for PUHS's ''Coyote Journal''. Bill did not graduate with his class (he was later granted a diploma in 1945) and in 1939 he took courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts where he studied political cartooning with Vaughn Shoemaker. While in

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, Mauldin met Will Lang Jr. and became fast friends with him. Lang Jr. later became a journalist and a bureau head for ''Life'' magazine.

World War II

Shortly after returning to Phoenix in 1940, Mauldin enlisted in Company D, 120th Quartermaster Regiment, of the Arizona National Guard, at

. 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. Willi and Joe Dirt

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.DePastino, ''Willie & Joe''. 2008. 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. Egbert White, editor of the ''Stars and Stripes'', encouraged Mauldin to syndicate his cartoons and helped him find an agent. By March 1944, he was given his own jeep, in which he roamed the front, collecting material. He published six cartoons a week.Michaelis, David
"He Drew Great Mud"
. ''The New York Times Sunday Book Review''. March 2, 2008 His cartoons were viewed by soldiers throughout Europe during

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, and were also published in the United States. The War Office supported their syndication, 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. While in Europe, Mauldin befriended a fellow soldier-cartoonist, Gregor Duncan, and was assigned to escort him for a time. (Duncan was killed at

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in May 1944.) Bill Mauldin in a helmet

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 isass in jail" and ban ''Stars and Stripes'' from his

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. General

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, 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." 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." 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

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. By the end of the war, he received the

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for his cartoons. Mauldin wanted Willie and Joe to be killed on the last day of combat, but ''Stars and Stripes'' dissuaded him.

Postwar activities

In 1945, at the age of 23, Mauldin won a

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"."Editorial Cartooning"
. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-01. 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 of ''

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'' magazine for the June 18, 1945, issue. Mauldin made the cover of the July 21, 1961, issue. After the war, Mauldin turned to drawing

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expressing a generally civil libertarian view associated with groups such as the

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. 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

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in the

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film '' The Red Badge of Courage'', and in

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's ''

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''."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. In 1956, he ran unsuccessfully for the

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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.

In 1959, Mauldin won a second Pulitzer Prize, while working at the ''

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'', for a cartoon depicting Soviet author

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in a

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, asking another prisoner, "I won the Nobel Prize for literature. What was your crime?" Pasternak had won the

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for his novel '' Doctor Zhivago'', but was not allowed to travel to Sweden to accept it. The following year Mauldin won the

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Award for Editorial Cartooning. In 1961, he received their Reuben Award as well. In addition to cartooning, Mauldin worked as a

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. He also

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many articles for ''

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'' magazine, ''

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'', ''

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'', 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":

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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. In 1962, Mauldin moved to the ''

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''. One of his most famous post-war cartoons was published in 1963, following the assassination of

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John F. Kennedy. It depicted the statue of

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at the

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, with his head in his hands. On 7 February 1965, while visiting his son who was serving with the U.S. Army at

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Mauldin was present for the

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Attack on Camp Holloway. In 1969, Mauldin was commissioned by the

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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. 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. On September 19, 2001, Sergeant Major of the Army Jack L. Tilley presented Mauldin with a personal letter from Army Chief of Staff

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Eric K. Shinseki, and a hardbound book with notes from other senior Army leaders and several celebrities, including TV broadcasters

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and

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, and actor

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. Tilley also promoted Mauldin to the honorary rank of

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Death and legacy

Mauldin died on January 22, 2003, from

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and complications of injuries received in an accidental

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. He was buried in

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on January 29, 2003. Married three times, he was survived by seven children. 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. In June, 2000 Mauldin was inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame. 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

The 45th Infantry Division Museum, located in

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, Oklahoma, includes a substantial collection of cartoons by Mauldin. The

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includes a substantial collection of cartoons by Mauldin.

Bibliography

* ''Star Spangled Banter'' – 1941 * ''Sicily Sketchbook'' – 1943 * ''Mud, Mules, and Mountains'' – 1944 * ''News of the 45th'' (with Don Robinson) – 1944 * – 1945 * ''This Damn Tree Leaks'' – 1945 * – 1947 * – 1949 * – 1951 * – 1952 * ''Up High with Bill Mauldin'' – 1956 * ''What's Got Your Back Up?'' – 1961 * – 1965 * ''Bill of Rights Day Celebration'' – 1969 * – 1971 * ''Name Your Poison'' – 1975 * – 1978 * ''Let's Declare Ourselves Winners and Get the Hell Out'' – 1985 In April 2008,

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released a two-volume set of Mauldin's complete wartime Willie and Joe cartoons, edited by Todd DePastino, titled ''Willie & Joe: The WWII Years'' (). A collection of post-war cartoons, ''Willie & Joe: Back Home'', was published by Fantagraphics in August, 2011 ().

''Peanuts''

From 1969 to 1998,

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Charles M. Schulz (a veteran of World War II) regularly paid tribute to Bill Mauldin in his ''

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on Veterans Day. In the strips,

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, dressed as an army vet, would annually go to Mauldin's house to "quaff a few

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s and tell war stories." By the end of the strip, Schulz had depicted 17 of Snoopy's visits. 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. Peanuts also paid tribute to

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in 1976, and

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in 1997 and 1999.

Filmography

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

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comedy, he returned his advising fee; he said he had never seen the result. Mauldin also appeared as an actor in the 1951 films '' The Red Badge of Courage'' and ''

'', and as himself in the 1998 documentary ''America in the '40s''. He also appeared in on-screen interviews in the Thames documentary ''

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''.

References

External links

Arlington National Cemetery

Bill Mauldin Editorial Cartoons Collection
at St. Louis Public Library
Bill Mauldin Editorial Cartoons Collection
finding aid at th
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.

representative of Mauldin's cartoons

transcript and RealAudio of ''

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'', Jan. 23, 2003
''Bill Mauldin: Beyond Willie And Joe''
An online tribute drawn from the collections of the

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'', episode "War Letters" (PBS)
St. Louis Walk of Fame

Interview
with Todd DePastino on ''Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front'',

ANC Explorer

Bill Mauldin collection
at The Newberry
A Bill Mauldin website primarily archiving his self-published "Sicily Sketchbook"
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