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"The first career-spanning volume of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, featuring comic art from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm, along with a half-century of graphic commentary on civil rights, free speech, the Cold War, and other issues. Army sergeant William Henry ""Bill"" Mauldin shot to fame during World War II with ""Willie & Joe"" cartoons, which gave readers of Stars & Stripes and hundreds of home-front newspapers a glimpse of the war from the foxholes of Europe. Lesser known are Mauldin's second and even third acts as one of America's premier political cartoonists from the last half of the twentieth century, when he traveled to Korea and Vietnam; Israel and Saudi Arabia; Oxford, Mississippi, and Washington, DC; covering war and peace, civil rights and the Great Society, Nixon and the Middle East. He especially kept close track of American military power, its use and abuse, and the men and women who served in uniform. Now, for the first time, his entire career is explored in this illustrated single volume, featuring selections from Chicago's Pritzker Military Museum & Library. Edited by Mauldin's biographer Todd DePastino and featuring 150 images, Drawing Fire: The Editorial Cartoons of Bill Mauldin includes illuminating essays exploring all facets of Mauldin's career by Tom Brokaw, Denise Neil, Cord A. Scott, G. Kurt Piehler, Jean Schulz, and Christina Knopf, with a Preface by Tom Hanks."

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Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front by Todd DePastino (Author) Thoroughly researched and sprightly written, DePastino's balanced biography is a solid introduction to an American original. -Publishers Weekly Willie & Joe: The WWII Years by Bill Mauldin (Author, Artist), and Todd DePastino (Editor) Bill Mauldin was my first artist hero, and Willie & Joe: The WWII Years reminds me why. - Steven Heller, The New York Times Book Review These gritty, existential cartoons everything Mauldin published during the war that still exists is compiled here are the real deal and then some. - Laurel Maury, NPR Mauldin's characters were bluntly honest: War was dirty, absurd, bitter hardwork. - Todd Leopold, CNN Mauldin's drawings of his muddy, exhausted, whisker-stubbled infantrymen Willie and Joe were the voice of truth about what it was like on the front lines. - Bob Greene, CNN.com [An] amazing and beautiful collection. - Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune There's a sad wisdom on virtually every page here. - Jeff Salamon, The Austin American-Statesman A deeply felt, vivacious and wonderfully illustrated biography. Clancy Sigal, Los Angeles Times Book Review First and foremost, Willie & Joe are funny. ...[I]t's an absorbing glimpse into the day to day life of soldiers while it was happening and the end not known. It's easy to identify with: employees in any capacity gripe about their bosses. But the more specific Mauldin is, the more biting and fascinating his work is. - Michael Giltz, The Huffington Post This compilation of his cartoons helps bring Mauldin's talent and his life at the front lines both to historians and a new generation. - Samuel M. Baker, ARMY Magazine Many World War II veterans would surely appreciate seeing these strips again, and anyone who studies that conflict ought to be fascinated by Mauldin's unglamorous take on the drudgery, fear and absurdity of Army life. - David Allen, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Cartoonist Bill Mauldin was a genius at bringing the experiences of World War II home to the moms and dads, kids, wives or girlfriends of the GIs on the front lines in a very human way. ... To my knowledge, none of our wars since has produced a chronicler anywhere near the greatness of Mauldin. - Wesley G. Hughes, San Bernadino County Sun

"Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front by Todd DePastino (Author) ""Thoroughly researched and sprightly written, DePastino's balanced biography is a solid introduction to an American original."" -Publishers Weekly Willie & Joe: The WWII Years by Bill Mauldin (Author, Artist), and Todd DePastino (Editor) ""Bill Mauldin was my first artist hero, and Willie & Joe: The WWII Years reminds me why."" - Steven Heller, The New York Times Book Review ""These gritty, existential cartoons―everything Mauldin published during the war that still exists is compiled here―are the real deal and then some."" - Laurel Maury, NPR ""Mauldin's characters were bluntly honest: War was dirty, absurd, bitter hardwork."" - Todd Leopold, CNN ""Mauldin's drawings of his muddy, exhausted, whisker-stubbled infantrymen Willie and Joe were the voice of truth about what it was like on the front lines."" - Bob Greene, CNN.com ""[An] amazing and beautiful collection."" - Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune ""There's a sad wisdom on virtually every page here."" - Jeff Salamon, The Austin American-Statesman ""A deeply felt, vivacious and wonderfully illustrated biography."" ―Clancy Sigal, Los Angeles Times Book Review ""First and foremost, Willie & Joe are funny. ...[I]t's an absorbing glimpse into the day to day life of soldiers while it was happening and the end not known. It's easy to identify with: employees in any capacity gripe about their bosses. But the more specific Mauldin is, the more biting and fascinating his work is."" - Michael Giltz, The Huffington Post ""This compilation of his cartoons helps bring Mauldin's talent and his life at the front lines both to historians and a new generation."" - Samuel M. Baker, ARMY Magazine ""Many World War II veterans would surely appreciate seeing these strips again, and anyone who studies that conflict ought to be fascinated by Mauldin's unglamorous take on the drudgery, fear and absurdity of Army life."" - David Allen, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin ""Cartoonist Bill Mauldin was a genius at bringing the experiences of World War II home to the moms and dads, kids, wives or girlfriends of the GIs on the front lines in a very human way. ... To my knowledge, none of our wars since has produced a chronicler anywhere near the greatness of Mauldin."" - Wesley G. Hughes, San Bernadino County Sun"

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Bill Mauldin was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist. His famous characters of Willie and Joe tracked the bootsteps of America's GIs in Europe, drawn from Mauldin's own experiences as a rifleman in the 45th Infantry Division during the Second World War. After the war, Mauldin returned to civilian life and cast his critical eye and sharp humor on battles back home over McCarthyism, civil rights, free speech, and ensuing wars. In addition to several books, Mauldin published essays and drawings that appeared in such magazines as Life, Sports Illustrated, and the Saturday Evening Post before turning to daily political cartooning at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Sun-Times, where he retired in 1991. Bill Mauldin died in 2003 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Todd DePastino (Editor) is the author of Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front and editor of the cartoon collections Willie & Joe: The WWII Years and Willie and Joe: Back Home. He currently serves as Executive Director of the Veteran's Breakfast Club, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to sharing veterans' stories with the public.

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