Bill Maudlin, R.I.P.

[Dave Monroe]

The New York Times
Friday, January 23, 2003
Bill Mauldin, Cartoonist Who Showed World War II
Through G.I. Eyes, Dies at 81
By RICHARD SEVERO

Bill Mauldin, the Army sergeant who created Willie and
Joe, the cartoon characters who became enduring
symbols of the grimy, irrepressible American
infantrymen who triumphed over the German army and
prevailed over their own rear-echelon officers in
World War II, died yesterday in Newport Beach, Calif.
He was 81.

The cause was pneumonia, his family said. Mr. Mauldin
had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

After Willie and Joe won the war, Mr. Mauldin became a
syndicated newspaper cartoonist and went on for more
than 50 years to caricature bigots, superpatriots,
doctrinaire liberals and conservatives and pompous
souls in whatever form they appeared. He won the
Pulitzer Prize twice, once in 1944 for his World War
II work, again in 1959 for his commentary on Soviet
treatment of Boris Pasternak.

Mr. Mauldin gave up regular cartooning assignments in
the early 1990's, complaining that arthritis made
drawing too difficult....

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/obituaries/23MAUL.html

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