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  Bill Mauldin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Mauldin during World War II Bill Mauldin (October 29, 1921–January 22, 2003) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the United States.
Mauldin began working for Stars and Stripes, the American soldiers' newspaper, and his cartoons were viewed by soldiers all over Europe during World War II, and also published in the United States.
Mauldin himself served on the front lines, landing at Anzio, and receiving a Purple Heart for being wounded.
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 Bill Mauldin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Henry "Bill" Mauldin (October 29, 1921–January 22, 2003) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the United States.
Bill Mauldin entered the U.S. Army in 1940 to fight in World War II.
Mauldin also appeared as an actor in the 1951 films The Red Badge of Courage and Teresa, and as himself in the 1998 documentary America in the '40s.
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 Bill Mauldin
Bill Mauldin (October 29, 1921 - January 22, 2003) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist.
Mauldin took courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and, in 1940, entered the United States Army.
This after one of Mauldin's cartoons made fun of Patton's demand that all sodiers must be clean-shaven and wear ties at all times, even in combat.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/bill_mauldin.html   (678 words)

  
 Bill Mauldin dies at 81
They were the vessels that Mauldin, a young Army rifleman, filled with wry understatement to portray the tedium and treachery of war, entertaining and endearing himself to millions of fellow soldiers in the war and to Americans at home.
Mauldin won the second in 1959, while he was an editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for depicting Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak saying to another gulag prisoner: "I won the Nobel Prize for literature.
Mauldin enlisted in 1940 and, assigned as a rifleman to the 180th Infantry, started drawing cartoons depicting training camp for the Division News, the newspaper for the 45th Division.
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 Bill Mauldin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Mauldin was born in Mountain Park, (A state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border) New Mexico.
The cartoon shows the statue of (16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)) Abraham Lincoln at the (Memorial building in Washington containing a large marble statue of Abraham Lincoln) Lincoln Memorial, his head in his hands, crying.
Mauldin also appeared in the 1951 films (Click link for more info and facts about The Red Badge of Courage) The Red Badge of Courage and Teresa.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/bill_mauldin.htm   (937 words)

  
 William Henry Bill Mauldin, Sergeant, United States Army
Bill Mauldin, the Army Sergeant who created Willie and Joe, the cartoon characters who became enduring symbols of the grimy, irrespressible American infantrymen who triumphed over the German army and prevailed over their own rear-echelon officers in World War II, died today in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 81 years old.
Mauldin ended the meeting by saying he was sure the general did not want him to represent the American soldier in a less than realistic way.
Mauldin used his pen to strike at the Ku Klux Klan and veterans' organizations that he thought were too far to the right.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /whmauldin.htm   (5514 words)

  
 Flak Magazine: In Memoriam: Bill Mauldin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In cartoons for Stars and Stripes, Mauldin comforted them with the misadventures of Willy and Joe, two regular guys in Italy being shot at, rained on, muddied, battered, shellshocked, unappreciated by commanders and sometimes able to crack a joke.
Conservatives embrace Mauldin — for instance, this foe of "politically correct liberal trash" or this blogger demanding war with Iraq.
Bill Mauldin died this week with war on the horizon.
www.flakmag.com /opinion/mauldin.html   (1011 words)

  
 Bill Mauldin Needs His Buddies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Mauldin was not one to hold on to the past -- he did not want to be categorized by the work he did on the battlefields when he was in his 20s.
Mauldin went to see Patton in March 1945 where he had to endure a long lecture on the dangers of producing "anti-officer cartoons".
Mauldin responded by arguing that the soldiers had legitimate grievances that needed to be addressed.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/731823/posts   (2044 words)

  
 Bill Mauldin Obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Mauldin was noted for his cartoon depictions of weary World War II soldiers named Willie and Joe.
Mauldin had enlisted in the US Army in 1940, and was a rifleman for the 180th Infantry.
Bill Mauldin's Army - The foxhole history of the American soldier in World War II, by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin.
www.dalebroux.com /assemblage/2003-01-26billmauldinobit.asp   (300 words)

  
 Bill Mauldin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
William Henry Mauldin was born in Mountain Park, N.M., on Oct. 29, 1921, the son of Edith and Sidney Mauldin.
Mauldin learned about the city's rising bridges by trying to watch a ship pass under the Michigan Avenue bridge while he was standing on it, unaware of what the ringing bells meant.
Mauldin's Willie and Joe, infantrymen who survived on a diet of ironic humor, were dirty and unshaven, slogging through mud and snow and sleeping in foxholes filled with water.
www.tuxjunction.net /mauldin.htm   (3438 words)

  
 Bill Mauldin WWII's Greatest Cartoonist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Bill Mauldin is truly a man of distinguished honor with a little dough-boyish deviltry in his soul.
Mauldin's cartoons, published first in the 45th Division News and later in the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, held up a mirror to the lives of soldiers in the European theater, who liked what they saw.
Mauldin was 18 when he enlisted in the US Army and the boyish looking recruit from New Mexico, who worked for the Stars and Stripes, was able to capture the grim wit of the foxhole in a way that was loved by men in the ranks and hated by many of their officers.
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The letters were to the cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who became the voice of the World War II infantry soldier with his characters Willie and Joe.
Mauldin was that he had retired to New Mexico.
Mauldin, I have half a dozen grandsons, all in their early 20's, and all members of that generation that guesses Dec. 7, 1941, is somebody's birthday, Anzio is a viral disease and Cassino is a card game.
www.mishalov.com /bill_mauldin.html   (745 words)

  
 Bill Mauldin
Mauldin began his studies towards a career in cartooning when he completed high school in 1939.
Bill Mauldin went with his unit, the 45th Infantry Division, as an infantyryman.
Bill didn't have to try to ‘get into the head' of the common soldier, because he WAS one.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/944/94428   (567 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Cartoonist Mauldin dies, was GIs' hero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Bill Mauldin's cartoons depicting the cold and wet reality of life in the foxhole made him a hero to a generation of World War II foot soldiers.
Mauldin took issue with Brokaw's view that he and other World War II veterans were the greatest generation: "I don't think we were all that special.
Mauldin enlisted in the Army in 1940 and as a rifleman began drawing cartoons published by his division's newspaper.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-01-22-obit-mauldin_x.htm   (477 words)

  
 Stars & Stripes
Mauldin, who was an Army rifleman, drew a pair of tired and downtrodden soldiers named Willie and Joe, whose wry observations of life on Europe’s front lines were loved by soldiers and loathed by many in command, including Gen. George S. Patton.
Mauldin enlisted in the Army in 1940 and, assigned as a rifleman to the 180th Infantry, started drawing cartoons depicting training camp for the Division News, the newspaper for the 45th Division.
Mauldin is survived by former wives Jean Mauldin and Christine Lund and all of his sons.
www.stripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=12650   (1150 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: In Memorium: Bill Mauldin -- Jan. 23, 2003
TERENCE SMITH: Bill Mauldin, who died yesterday at age 81, was probably best known for creating "Willie and Joe," the World War II cartoon characters that became symbols of the gritty life of the American GI.
Mauldin was known for his unflinching style, exemplified in his later work in his drawing of the Soviet treatment of the writer Boris Pasternak, for which he won a second Pulitzer in 1959.
Bill came as quite a shock in the early years of the war when his work -- I think in 1943 or 1944 -- started appearing for the first time in Life Magazine, and here we on the home front got to see it.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/jan-june03/maudlin_1-23.html   (1385 words)

  
 Exhibits - Bill Mauldin Cartoon Collection
The 45th Infantry Division Museum is proud to have in its collection more than 200 of Bill Mauldin’s original World War II cartoons.
Bill Mauldin joined the 45th Infantry Division in September of 1940 and became the cartoonist for the 45th Division News in October of the same year.
Mauldin’s style progressed and matured during this period and he soon became recognized for his talents as a military cartoonist.
www.45thdivisionmuseum.com /Exhibits/Mauldin.html   (185 words)

  
 Bill Mauldin
Mauldin, the youngest person to be awarded the prize, was now one of the best-known cartoonists in the United States.
Bill Mauldin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist whose characters, the downtrodden GIs Willie and Joe, spoke to a generation of soldiers who fought in World War II, died early yesterday.
Mauldin's Willie and Joe were dirty and unshaven, slogging through mud and snow and sleeping in foxholes filled with water.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /ARTmauldin.htm   (1680 words)

  
 Mauldin at War, 1943-1945 : Bill Mauldin Beyond Willie and Joe: An online tribute drawn from the collections of the ...
Mauldin was permitted to speak his mind to Patton.
Bill mostly worked at night, until the wee hours, on drawings made from innumerable sketches made up front with the combat troops.
The wound hardly bled." Mauldin received a Purple Heart for his injury, and when he protested that he had "been cut worse sneaking through barbed-wire fences in New Mexico," the aid told him to take the medal, which might get him discharged earlier at the end of the war.
www.loc.gov /rr/print/swann/mauldin/mauldin-atwar.html   (746 words)

  
 Military cartoonists remember Bill Mauldin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
While Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin was buried at Arlington National Cemetery Wednesday, his legacy lives on through the influence he continues to have on contemporary military cartoonists.
Baker said Mauldin's "Willie and Joe" rings true with a military audience in a way that "Beetle Bailey" does not, because the latter is targeted to a broader civilian audience and mostly emphasize gags.
Mauldin was as much of a journalist as he was a cartoonist, Rosenburgh said.
www.dcmilitary.com /army/pentagram/8_04/national_news/21420-1.html   (904 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Willie and Joe
Bill Mauldin was an 18-year-old "dogface" in the U.S. Army in 1940, when he created the classic pair.
Their fame spread throughout the service, and in 1944 he went to work as a full-time cartoonist for Stars & Stripes, where his daily one-panel glimpses into the lives of his disheveled protagonists were seen by combat men the world over.
One of their last appearances was on Sunday, June 5, 1988, when Mauldin drew the final Steve Canyon installment as a memorial to the strip's creator, Milton Caniff.
www.toonopedia.com /upfront.htm   (490 words)

  
 CNN.com - Bill Mauldin, famed WWII cartoonist, dies at 81 - Jan. 23, 2003
Bill Mauldin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who portrayed World War II reality laced with humor, died Wednesday.
Mauldin, one of the 20th century's pre-eminent editorial cartoonists, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease, including pneumonia, at a Newport Beach nursing home, said Andy Mauldin, 54, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, one of the cartoonist's seven sons.
Mauldin was born near Santa Fe, New Mexico, and spent much of his life in the West.
www.cnn.com /2003/US/West/01/22/mauldin.obit.ap/index.html   (725 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Bill Mauldin (American Art, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Bill Mauldin (William Henry Mauldin), 1921–2003, American cartoonist, b.
Mauldin's cartoons won him two Pulitzer Prizes (1945 and 1959).
Mauldin appeared in the movies The Red Badge of Courage and Teresa (both: 1951).
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Mauldin.html   (238 words)

  
 Bill Mauldin Needs His Buddies
Mauldin has had a rough time of it in recent years: he was apparently badly burned in a household accident and has been divorced several times.
If ever anyone deserved a silk road in later life, it was Bill Mauldin, who was one of the classic little guys who made a big difference, one of the ordinary Americans who changed (and saved) our world.
I spoke with members of his family; they said that, even though Bill hardly communicates, the one thing that cheers him up is hearing from World War II guys -- the men for whom he drew those magnificent cartoons.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/731823/posts   (2044 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Bill Mauldin
Bill Mauldin was an ordinary guy from an ordinary town, who made cartoons about ordinary guys, from an ordinary point of view.
William Henry Mauldin was born October 29, 1921, in Mountain Park, New Mexico.
As a result, by the time the war was over, Mauldin's cartoons were being syndicated by United Feature, alongside The Captain & the Kids and Nancy.
www.toonopedia.com /mauldin.htm   (523 words)

  
 Bill Mauldin 1921-2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Bill Mauldin, cartoonist who immortalized WWII soldiers with his 'Willie and Joe' cartoons, died at 81, on Wednesday, January 22, 2003.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill, who as a young Army soldier during World War II gave Americans a foxhole view of the war with his drawings of weary, dogfaced GIs he called Willie and Joe.
Mauldin went to see Patton where he had to endure a long lecture on the dangers of producing "anti-officer cartoons." Mauldin responded by arguing that the soldiers had legitimate grievances that needed to be addressed.
www.usmm.org /billmauldin.html   (545 words)

  
 Bill Mauldin Biography / Biography of Bill Mauldin Biography Biography
The incomparable cartoon biographer of the ordinary GI in World War II, Bill Mauldin (born 1921) earned two Pulitzer prizes and syndication in over 250 newspapers for his mordant drawings.
The son of Sidney Albert and Edith Katrina (Bemis), Bill Mauldin was born on October 29, 1921, in Mountain Park, New Mexico.
While in high school, Mauldin took a correspondence course in cartooning.
www.bookrags.com /biography-bill-mauldin   (240 words)

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