Mauldin died in Newport Beach, California in 2003. They had four sons, Andrew, David, John and Nathaniel. After a divorce in 1946, Mauldin married Natalie Sarah Evans in 1947. They had two sons, Bruce Patrick and Timothy. Mauldin married Norma Jean Humphries in 1942. 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. Honored with degrees from Connecticut Wesleyan University, Washington When he won his first Pulitzer prize, Mauldin was the youngest Rights and the environment, and took a strong stand against the war in Trying to show reality spiced with humor. Mauldin's work was for ordinary people who read the papers, Hired by the Chicago Sun-Times, where he stayed until he retired inġ991. Louis Post-Dispatch, wroteīooks and even appeared in two motion pictures: After the war Mauldin did a panel for United Features Syndicateįeaturing Willie's and Joe's trials at home, dealing with social issuesĪnd attacking the Red Scare hysteria and the paranoia of the McCarthyĮra. Tried to have the panel removed (and Mauldin court-martialed), but theyīecame so incredibly popular among GIs that Time magazine actuallyįeatured them on its cover, and eventually Patton relented. Two clicked with the average GI almost immediately, one of the reasons Of plain, tired but determined infantrymen named Willie and Joe. HeĬreated two characters for which he will always be remembered: a pair Illustrator for the military's newspaper, The Stars & Stripes.

He took a few courses at the Chicago Academy ofįine Arts and, in 1940 entered the Army and was assigned as an Bill Mauldin was born in Mountain Park, New Mexico, in 1921, and

Bill Mauldin in Korea by Bill Mauldin