Author: Bill MauldinPublisher: Presidio Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A collection of cartoons drawn during 5 years of Army service from 1940 to 1945, arranged by subject.
Willie & Joe
Author: Bill MauldinPublisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606993518
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Willie & Joe: Back Home brilliantly chronicles the struggles and disillusionments of these early post-WWII years and, in doing so, tells Bill Mauldin’s own extraordinary story of his journey home to a wife he barely knew and a son he had only seen in pictures. The drawings capture the texture and feel, the warp and woof, of this confusing time: the ubiquitous hats and cigarettes, the domestic rubs, the rising fear of another war, and new conflicts over Civil Rights, civil liberties, and free speech. This second volume of Fantagraphics’ series reprinting Mauldin’s greatest work identifies and restores the dozens of cartoons censored by Mauldin’s syndicate for their attacks on racial segregation and McCarthy-style “witch hunts.” Mauldin pleaded with his syndicate to let him out of his contract so that he could return to the simple quiet life so desired by Willie & Joe. The syndicate refused, so Mauldin did battle, as always, through pen and ink.
Drawing Fire: The Editorial Cartoons of Bill Mauldin
Author: Todd DepastinoPublisher:
ISBN: 9780998968940
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
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 his grim and gritty "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, D.C.; 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, Cord A. Scott, G. Kurt Piehler, and Christina Knopf.
Author: Bill MauldinBill Mauldin
Author: Todd DePastinoPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393061833
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation. Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to "throw his ass in jail" to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, "Up Front," to the pages of Stars and Stripes.--From publisher description.
The Brass Ring
Author: Bill MauldinPublisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393074635
Category : Cartoonists
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Bill Mauldin, American most widely read editorial cartoonist, writes of his survival of a broken home, being jailed at fifteen, infuriating General Patton with his satire during W.W. II, and being wounded.
Back Home
Author: Bill MauldinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781458326799
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Back Home explores the early years of post-WWII, this book exceptionally chronicles the struggles and cynicism faced afterwards. Bill Mauldin tells his own extraordinary story of his journey back home from war to a wife he barely knew and a son he had only seen in photographs. His brilliant drawings capture the texture and feel of this confusing time with the looming fear of another war, and new conflicts over Civil Rights, civil liberties, and free speech. This book contains over 200 drawings with digital improvements.
The Comic Art of War
Author: Christina M. KnopfPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786498358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
For military cartoonists the absurdity of war inspires a laugh-or-cry response and provides an endless source of un-funny amusement. Cartoons by hundreds of artists-at-arms from more than a dozen countries and spanning two centuries are included in this study--the first to consider such a broad range of military comics. War and military life are examined through the inside jokes of the men and women who served. The author analyzes themes of culture, hierarchy, enemies and allies, geography, sexuality, combat, and civilian relations and describes how comics function within a community. A number of artists included were known for their work with Disney, Marvel Comics, the New Yorker and Madison Avenue but many lesser known artists are recognized.
Ernie Pyles War
Author: James TobinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 068486469X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
When a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breath as they mourned Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, the loss of this American folk hero seemed nearly as great as the loss of the wartime president. If the hidden horrors and valor of combat persist at all in the public mind, it is because of those writers who watched it and recorded it in the faith that war is too important to be confined to the private memories of the warriors. Above all these writers, Ernie Pyle towered as a giant. Through his words and his compassion, Americans everywhere gleaned their understanding of what they came to call “The Good War.” Pyle walked a troubled path to fame. Though insecure and anxious, he created a carefree and kindly public image in his popular prewar column—all the while struggling with inner demons and a tortured marriage. War, in fact, offered Pyle an escape hatch from his own personal hell. It also offered him a subject precisely suited to his talent—a shrewd understanding of human nature, an unmatched eye for detail, a profound capacity to identify with the suffering soldiers whom he adopted as his own, and a plain yet poetic style reminiscent of Mark Twain and Will Rogers. These he brought to bear on the Battle of Britain and all the great American campaigns of the war—North Africa, Sicily, Italy, D-Day and Normandy, the liberation of Paris, and finally Okinawa, where he felt compelled to go because of his enormous public stature despite premonitions of death. In this immensely engrossing biography, affectionate yet critical, journalist and historian James Tobin does an Ernie Pyle job on Ernie Pyle, evoking perfectly the life and labors of this strange, frail, bald little man whose love/hate relationship to war mirrors our own. Based on dozens of interviews and copious research in little-known archives, Ernie Pyle's War is a self-effacing tour de force. To read it is to know Ernie Pyle, and most of all, to know his war.
Author: Boardman Robinson