He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Tributes, more than any honor or award, rank Bill Mauldin as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.īill Mauldin died on January 22, 2003. They thanked him for keeping their humanity alive during that most savage of wars. In the months before he died, old veterans and their relatives sent him over 10,000Ĭards and letters. Stricken by Alzheimer’s disease, heĮntered a nursing home in 2002. In 1945, the twenty-three-year-old cartoonist returned home the youngest Pulitzer Prize winner in history, theĪuthor of a best-selling book, and the most famous enlisted man in the United States Army.īill Mauldin retired from cartooning in 1991 after an injury to his drawing hand. Stripes in early 1944, Bill created two war-weary “dogfaces” named Willie and Joe who captured the sardonic humor The strain of combat soon engraved itself on his cartoons, as it did the men. In 1940, the unemployed cartoonist joined the Army, where he cartooned one afternoon a week for the 45th Division News, rapidly becoming a 45th Division celebrity by the time he landed in Sicily in July 1943. Reasoned at age 17 when he decided to take up political cartooning as a career. “I was born a troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it,” he
188: BILL MAULDIN LARGE DRAWING WILLIE AND JOE. Bill Mauldin (1921-2003) Possible war-date drawing of a Willie and Joe cartoon - an oversized bold. He chronicled their lives in cartoons and, in so doing, ennobled both his View Bill Mauldin artworks sold at auction to research and compare prices. Tell th’ ol’ man I’m sittin’ up wit’ two sick friends.īorn in 1921, Bill Mauldin came of age in the People’s Century, when ordinary men and women grappled with the "Drop them cans in th’ coffee gentl,e Joe-we got a chicken stewin’ in th’ bottom. About Limited edition editorial print from Mauldin's "Willie and Joe" collection.
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