![]() Copyright © 2023, Columbia University Press. GIs often credited him with helping them to get through the rigors of the war. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Mauldins cartoons made him a hero to the common soldier. Mauldin appeared in the movies The Red Badge of Courage and Teresa (both: 1951). 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). Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Sun-Times. ![]() He was also a political cartoonist for the St. Mauldin's cartoons won him two Pulitzer Prizes (19). 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. During World War II, in which he served as an infantryman-cartoonist in Italy, France, and Germany, Mauldin achieved fame with his sardonic cartoons. ![]() Mauldin, Bill (William Henry Mauldin), 1921–2003, American cartoonist, b. ![]()
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