On 6 October 1965 he was also one of six cartoonists (the others being Milton Caniff, Roy Crane, Don Sherwood, Mort Walker and George Wunder) to be invited by U.S President Lyndon B. Mauldin heard that most newspaper salesmen sold issues of that day's paper, showing the back page (where this cartoon was printed) instead of the front page. It depicts Abraham Lincoln, seated on the throne of the Lincoln Memorial, weeping behind his hands. His most famous editorial cartoon ran in The Chicago Daily News after the assassination of John F. Dubbed "the hottest editorial brush in the U.S.," he won his second Pulitzer Prize that year. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1958 and took up cartooning again. A self-styled "stirrer-upper", Mauldin joined the St. Despised by the conservative brass as disrespectful, but loved by the G.I.'s as one of their own, the cartoons won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1945.Īfter the War, Mauldin abandoned cartooning for a while, working as a film actor, freelance writer, and illustrator of articles and books, including one on the Korean War. There he perfected 'Willie and Joe', the muddy, weary "dogfaces" who portrayed the drabness of the foot soldier's life. He joined the Army newsletter Stars and Stripes as a cartoonist. Born in New Mexico, Mauldin attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and fought as a sergeant in Sicily and other European battlefields. William Henry "Bill" Mauldin was a US cartoonist, best known for his World War II cartoons about American soldiers.
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