Bill Mauldin
William Henry " Bill" Mauldin ( born October 29, 1921 in Mountain Park, New Mexico, † 22 January 2003 in Newport Beach, California ) was an American cartoonist and caricaturist.
Life
After attending the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts Mauldin joined the U.S. Army in 1940 and took the 45th Infantry Division in the Second World War. During this time, Mauldin began drawing comics. The heroes of his stories were two infantrymen named Willie and Joe, as also the title of the comic series. Mauldin began drawing for the U.S. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, so that his cartoons were soon read by American soldiers in Europe and the United States. Mauldin landed on 22 January 1944 as part of Operation Shingle at Anzio, was wounded soon after and awarded the Purple Heart. For his cartoons, he was honored by the army with the Order of the Legion of Merit. 1943 Willie was featured on the cover of Time, Mauldin himself made it in 1958 on the cover of the magazine. 1945, the 23 -year-old was first awarded the Pulitzer Prize. The first anthology of his cartoons Up Front became a bestseller.
Mauldins attempt to transfer Willie and Joe to civilian life failed, as did his first steps as a political cartoonist. He drew a long time no more cartoons and worked as a film actor, a freelance writer and illustrator.
In 1956, he ran unsuccessfully as a supporter of Democrats for the Congress of the United States.
In 1958 he returned to his beginnings and worked as a cartoonist for the newspaper St. Louis Post- Dispatch. The following year he won again the Pulitzer Prize and the National Cartoonist Society Award for his political cartoons. 1961 Mauldin won the Reuben Award. The following year, Mauldin moved to Chigago Sun-Times, where he published one of his most famous post-war cartoons. After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, he drew the Statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial, the, head in hands, crying.
Mauldin worked until 1991 for the Sun - Times. 2003 died with Alzheimer Mauldin at the age of 81 years. His body was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Publications
- Up front, Bantam Books, 1983
- Let's Declare Ourselves Winners ... and Get the Hell Out, Presidio Press, 1985