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Drawing Fire: The Editorial Cartoons of Bill Mauldin
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Overview
Army sergeant Bill Mauldin shot to fame during World War II with his grim and gritty “Willie & Joe” cartoons that gave readers of Stars & Stripes and hundreds of homefront newspapers a glimpse of war from the foxholes of Europe.
Lesser known are Mauldin’s second and even third acts as one of America’s premier political cartoonists from the 1950s to the 1990s. He traveled to Korea and Vietnam, Israel and Saudi Arabia, Oxford, Mississippi, and Washington, DC, to cover war and peace, civil rights and the Great Society, Nixon and the Middle East. He especially kept close track of American military power, its use and abuse, and the men and women who served in uniform.
Now, for the first time, comic images from his entire career are available in this illustrated single volume featuring drawings from the largest collection of Mauldin cartoons at Chicago’s Pritzker Military Museum & Library.Edited by Mauldin’s biographer Todd DePastino and featuring 150 drawings, Drawing Fire: The Editorial Cartoons of Bill Mauldin includes illuminating essays exploring all facets of Mauldin’s career by Tom Brokaw of NBC News, Cord A. Scott of the University of Maryland, Global Campus - Korea, G. Kurt Piehler of Florida State University, and Christina Knopf of SUNY Cortland.
Bill Mauldin was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist.
His famous characters of Willie and Joe tracked the bootsteps of America’s GIs in Europe, drawn from Mauldin’s own experiences as a rifleman in the 45th Infantry Division during the Second World War. After the war, Mauldin returned to civilian life and cast his critical eye and sharp humor on battles back home over McCarthyism, civil rights, free speech, and ensuing wars. In addition to several books, Mauldin published essays and drawings that appeared in such magazines as Life, Sports Illustrated, and the Saturday Evening Post before turning to daily political cartooning at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Sun-Times, where he retired in 1991. Bill Mauldin died in 2003 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.Todd DePastino (Editor) is the author of Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front and editor of the cartoon collections Willie & Joe: The WWII Years and Willie and Joe: Back Home. He currently serves as Executive Director of the Veteran’s Breakfast Club, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to sharing veterans’ stories with the public.
