![]() ![]() ![]() society in a time of long-awaited peace and relative prosperity. This made the young, legitimately famous cartoonist even more sensitive than usual to the various injustices and acts of political acting out that riddled U.S. As DePastino describes, Mauldin suffered greatly the effects of the War. This year's publication of Willie & Joe: Back Home details Mauldin's astonishing post-World War II run as a nationally syndicated cartoonist. ![]() Mauldin valued his craft, he told the truth as he saw it, and he aimed that truth against those that exploited the common good - no matter what it cost him. I think Bill Mauldin, while a deeply flawed man, was not just an important figure in comics and 20th Century American history, but about as good a role model as there's ever been for a cartoonist - a role-model for an artist of any kind, really. I've been dying to interview Todd DePastino since the publication of his Bill Mauldin biography Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front and Fantagraphics' release - with the writer's involvement - of the complete wartime Willie and Joe cartoons in Willie & Joe: The WWII Years. ![]()
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