Pacific edition, Friday, January 31, 2003 Thursday, JanuCartoonist Mauldin is laid to rest at Arlington Americans should give a similar toast to remember Mauldin and what he meant to a generation of soldiers.

But it was because of Willie and Joe that he was remembered so fondly.Īlmost every Veterans Day, the late Charles Schulz would honor Mauldin by having Snoopy, as the World War I flying ace, toast the cartoonist with a mug of root beer. It showed a grieving Abraham Lincoln, his hands covering his face, at the Lincoln Memorial.

Many Americans remember Mauldin's cartoon in the Chicago Sun-Times, published after President Kennedy's assassination. What endeared Mauldin to the soldiers is that he was one of them, spending most of his time with the 45th Division. From 1940 to 1945, the unshaven, slump-shouldered soldiers mucked their way through Europe, surviving the enemy and the elements while mocking everything from their orders to their equipment. Published in Stars and Stripes and other military newspapers, they kept his fellow soldiers entertained and turned Mauldin into an icon. Mauldin made Willie and Joe the voice of the World War II infantryman. While Mauldin's entire body of work is impressive, it's his earliest work - the drawings of GIs Willie and Joe - that earned him the highest praise.

Why the jacket cites World Publishing Company and not Henry Holt and Company as publisher is not clear, but in any case this copy is NOT the dirt common book club edition.Another significant part of the World War II generation is gone now that Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin is dead at the age of 81. Everyone remembers this comic character (1909-94) in the Marilyn Monroe skirt-raising scene in 'The Seven Year Itch' (1955), but he was an accomplished stage actor as well - and played Willie in the 1951 film version of Mauldin's book. He boldly pens 'From / Tom Ewell / To Francis' in black ink. Quite tight and attractive later printing of this military comedy by 'Willie and Joe' cartoon creator Bill Mauldin (1921-2003) - but with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a fine heavy stock 5' X 4' card signed and inscribed by Tom Ewell, n.p., n.d. Typically edge-chipped dust jacket is complete and fairly nice. Brown cloth with green lettering and decoration, pictorial non-price-clipped ($3.00) dust jacket.

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