in particular felt offended by the cartoons. While Mauldin was praised for his realistic depictions of what most soldiers felt during war-time, he was less popular with some officers. In most cartoons, they were shown in the rain, mud, and other dire conditions, while they contemplated the whole situation. He extended the bristles on their faces and the eyes – "too old for those young bodies", as Mauldin put it – showed how much Willie and Joe suffered. They gradually became darker and more realistic in their depiction of the weariness of the enduring miseries of war. Mauldin was sent to combat, influencing his cartoons. Near the end of 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and the USA entered World War II. He cartooned part-time for the camp newspaper. Condition: Books, Very fine, Slipcase is Very Good, sunned area, and light fraying on the cloth cover edge.Mauldin was an 18-year-old soldier training with the 45th Infantry Division in 1940. Their dark, often insubordinate humor sparked controversy among army brass and incensed General George S. With their heavy brush lines, detailed battlescapes, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect, Mauldin’s cartoons and captions recreated on paper the fully realized world of the American combat soldier. The wrinkles in Willie and Joe’s uniforms deepened, the bristle on their faces grew, and the eyes - “too old for those young bodies,” as Mauldin put it – betrayed a weariness that would remain the entire war. By the year’s end, virtually every man in Mauldin’s original rifle company was killed, wounded, or captured. Months of miserable weather, bad food, and tedium interrupted by the terror of intense bombing and artillery fire took its toll.
His brilliant send-ups of officers were pure infantry, and the men loved it.Īfter wading ashore with his division on the first of its four beach invasions in July 1943, Mauldin and his men changed - and Mauldin’s cartoons changed accordingly. He had created his characters, Willie and Joe, at age 18, before Pearl Harbor, while training with the 45th Infantry Division and cartooning part-time for the camp newspaper. Bill Mauldin knew war because he was in it. This collection of 2 books in a slipcase with over 600 cartoons, most never before reprinted, is more than the record of a great artist– it is an essential chronicle of America’s citizen-soldiers from peace through war to victory. Here, for the first time, Fantagraphics Books brings together Mauldin’s complete works from 1940 through the end of the war.
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