Mauldin, Bill

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(William Henry Mauldin), 1921–2003, American cartoonist, b. Mountain Park, N.Mex. During World War II he achieved fame with his sardonic cartoons. Depicting the squalid reality of the enlisted man's life mainly through the portrayal of two cynical and unkempt G.I.'s, Willie and Joe, they appeared in Stars and Stripes and elsewhere. Mauldin's cartoons won him two Pulitzer Prizes (1945 and 1959). He was a political cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Sun-Times. Among his principal books of cartoons are Up Front (1945), A Sort of a Saga (1949), Bill Mauldin in Korea (1952), and The Brass Ring (1971). Mauldin appeared in the movies The Red Badge of Courage and Teresa (both: 1951).