![]() ![]() ![]() Rained on and shot at and kept awake in trenches day and night, the combat soldier was wet, scared, dirty, and tired all the time and Mauldin's spokesmen- the scruffy, bristle-chinned, listlessly dull-eyed, stoop-shouldered Willie and Joe in their wrinkled and torn uniforms- were taciturn but eloquent witnesses on behalf of the prosecuted. In the cartoons he drew for military newspapers, he depicted the life of the ordinary foot soldier the way it was. The most famous of them was Up Front, in which Mauldin also writes about his World War II experiences drawing his bedraggled dogface characters Willie and Joe. Mauldin’s cartoons have been published in books before this. ![]() That was the first war he cartooned about he would cartoon about four more, ending with the first Gulf War. Mauldin drew political cartoons for about 40 years and he drew cartoons about ordinary foot soldiers (“dogfaces”) in World War II as a 5-year prologue. Which means his cartoons are given greater display herein than they ever got in the newspapers that initially published the cartoons. JUST ABOUT EVERY PAGE in the 226 7x10-inch page Drawing Fire: The Editorial Cartoons of Bill Mauldin (2020 Pritzker Military Museum hardcover, $35) has a Mauldin cartoon on it. ![]()
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