Bill Mauldin

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William Henry "Bill" Mauldin (born October 29, 1921 in Mountain Park , New Mexico , † January 22, 2003 in Newport Beach , California ) was an American cartoonist and caricaturist .

Life

After attending the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts , Mauldin joined the US Army in 1940 and participated in World War II with the 45th Infantry Division . During this time Mauldin began drawing comics. The heroes of his stories were two infantrymen named Willie and Joe , which is also the title of the comic series. Mauldin began drawing for the American Army newspaper Stars and Stripes , so his cartoons were soon read by American soldiers in Europe and the United States. Mauldin landed at Anzio on January 22, 1944 as part of Operation Shingle , was wounded shortly afterwards and with thePurple Heart excellent. He was awarded the Legion of Merit by the army for his cartoons . In 1943 Willie was featured on the cover of Time , while Mauldin himself made it onto the cover of the magazine in 1958. In 1945, the 23-year-old was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the first time . The first anthology of his cartoons Up Front became a bestseller.

Mauldin's attempt to transfer Willie and Joe into civil life failed, as did his first steps as a political cartoonist. He stopped drawing cartoons for a while and worked as a film actor, freelance writer and illustrator.

In 1956 he ran unsuccessfully as a supporter of the Democrats for the United States Congress .

In 1958 he went back to his beginnings and worked as a cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper . The following year he again won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Cartoonist Society Award for his political cartoons. In 1961 Mauldin won the Reuben Award . The following year Mauldin moved to the Chicago Sun-Times , where he published one of his most famous post-war cartoons. After the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy , he drew the weeping statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial , his head in his hands.

Mauldin worked for the Sun-Times until 1991 . In 2003 Mauldin, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died at the age of 81. His body was interred in Arlington National Cemetery.

Publications

  • Mud & Guts: A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution , Diane Pub Co, 1978
  • Up Front , Bantam Books, 1983
  • Bill Mauldin's Army: Bill Mauldin's Greatest World Ware II Cartoons , Presidio Press, 1983
  • Let's Declare Ourselves Winners ... and Get the Hell Out , Presidio Press, 1985

Filmography

As an actor

  • 1951: Teresa - The Story of a Bride (Teresa)
  • 1952: The Red Badge of Courage

As a screenwriter

  • 1951: Up front
  • 1952: Back at the front

literature

  • Bill Mauldin: Back Home , Amereon Ltd., 1947 (autobiography)
  • Martha C. Nussbaum, Bill Mauldins cartoons: The body in war, in: dies., Political Emotions. Why love is important for justice. Berlin 2014. pp. 459–464.

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personal data
SURNAME Mauldin, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mauldin, William Henry (full name); Mauldin, William H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cartoonist and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountain Park , New Mexico, United States
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2003
Place of death Newport Beach , California, United States