Bill Mauldin

Bill Mauldin (William Henry Mauldin), 1921-2003, American cartoonist, b. Mountain Park, N.Mex. During World War II, in which he served as an infantryman-cartoonist in Italy, France, and Germany, Mauldin achieved fame with his sardonic cartoons. He depicted the squalid yet often funny reality of the enlisted man's life mainly through the portrayal of two cynical and unkempt G.I.'s, Willie and Joe, who appeared in Stars and Stripes, the soldiers' newspaper, and elsewhere. Mauldin's cartoons won him two Pulitzer Prizes (1945 and 1959). He was also a political cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Sun-Times. Among his principal books of cartoons are Up Front (1945), A Sort of a Saga (1949), Bill Mauldin in Korea (1952), and The Brass Ring (1971). Mauldin appeared in the movies The Red Badge of Courage and Teresa (both: 1951).

Bibliography: See biography by T. DePastino (2008).

Mauldin, Bill (1921–) cartoonist, born William Henry Mauldin in Mount Park, New Mexico. Mauldin gained fame during World War II for his sardonic depictions of the enlisted man's life in the military. Mauldin joined the army as a private in 1940 and in 1943 was assigned to the Stars and Stripes, for which he covered the fighting in Italy, France, and Germany. His most famous characters were Willie and Joe, two riflemen. Mauldin was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, in 1945 and again in 1959, for his work as an editorial cartoonist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Mauldin, Bill (William H. Mauldin) (1921– ),New Mexico‐born cartoonist, famous for his realistic, bitterly humorous drawings of front‐line soldiers in World War II, printed with his complementary text on army life and war in Up Front (1945). After the war he extended his subjects in Back Home (1946), wrote A Sort of a Saga (1949), about his youth, and treated from high school to his mid‐twenties in The Brass Ring (1971). His career as a cartoonist has been for the Chicago Sun Times since 1962. He received two Pulitzer Prizes (1944, 1959) for cartooning and has collected work in such books as What's Got Your Back Up? (1961) and Let's Declare Ourselves Winners and Get the Hell Out (1985).