Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Bill Mauldin

If you haven't heard of him, you've missed something. He travelled around Europe with U.S. forces writing for Stars and Stripes, and created Willie and Joe: two GI's in all their muddy, unshaven, hit-the-dirt glory. After the war he did political cartoons and several books.

During the first Gulf War, he went to Saudi to meet a lot of the troops and look around at how they were doing things. I've always regretted he didn't do a book about it; the cartoons would have been wonderful.

He died last year, after a long & bad illness. If you're not familiar with him, check out this: it has a few of his cartoons from the war.

Note: in Oklahoma City is the 45th Infantry Division Museum, and it has a lot of his original drawings, well worth seeing if you're in the area.

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