Army sergeant William Henry Bill Mauldin shot to fame during World War II with his grim and gritty Willie and Joe cartoons, which gave readers of Stars and Stripes and hundreds of home-front newspapers a glimpse of the war from the foxholes of Europe. From the Back Cover The first career-spanning volume of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, featuring comic art from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm, along with a half-century of graphic commentary on civil rights, free speech, the Cold War, and other issues. Kurt Piehler, Jean Schulz, and Christina Knopf, with a Preface by Tom Hanks. Edited by Mauldins biographer Todd DePastino and featuring 150 images, Drawing Fire: The Editorial Cartoons of Bill Mauldin includes illuminating essays exploring all facets of Mauldins career by Tom Brokaw, Denise Neil, Cord A. Now, for the first time, his entire career is explored in this illustrated single volume, featuring selections from Chicagos Pritzker Military Museum and Library. He especially kept close track of American military power, its use and abuse, and the men and women who served in uniform. Lesser known are Mauldins second and even third acts as one of Americas premier political cartoonists from the last half of the twentieth century, when he traveled to Korea and Vietnam Israel and Saudi Arabia Oxford, Mississippi, and Washington, DC covering war and peace, civil rights and the Great Society, Nixon and the Middle East.

Army sergeant William Henry Bill Mauldin shot to fame during World War II with Willie and Joe cartoons, which gave readers of Stars and Stripes and hundreds of home-front newspapers a glimpse of the war from the foxholes of Europe. Book Synopsis The first career-spanning volume of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, featuring comic art from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm, along with a half-century of graphic commentary on civil rights, free speech, the Cold War, and other issues. About the Book The first career-spanning volume of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, featuring comic art from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm, along with a half-century of graphic commentary on civil rights, free speech, the Cold War, and other historic issues and events.

Bill mauldin a life up front