World War II Cartoons
"Willie and Joe"
Cartoons
By: Bill Mauldin
Date: 1945
Source: Mauldin, Bill. Up Front. New York: W.W. Norton, 1945.
About the Artist: Born in New Mexico, Bill Mauldin (1921–2003) realized a passion for drawing early in life and later attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago. Rather than stunting his artistic drive, World War II (1939–1945) provided Mauldin with the setting for his greatest, most influential work. In 1945 he produced Up Front, a compilation of his war cartoons originally published in the U.S. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes. After the war Mauldin continued to publish sharp critiques of U.S. society for United Features Syndicate, attacking the likes of the Ku Klux Klan and Senator Joseph McCarthy. After winning another Pulitzer in 1959 he drew his most famous piece following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy...
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