Thursday, May 20, 2010

Bill Mauldin, R.I.P.


And my favorite Mauldin cartoon:


There are a bunch more here.

7 comments:

ASM826 said...

http://www.stripes.com/02/nov02/mauldin/index.html

Didn't know he was still here, and now he's gone.

The Big Guy said...

Pretty sure he passed away in 2003...

If you can find it, he did an illustrated book on his childhood in New Mexico...
Really cool book- great stories of growing up in a dysfunctional family out in the desert.

TBG

strandediniowa said...

Thanks for sparking memories, Borepatch. I found Bill Mauldin's book "Up Front" in paperback several years ago and gave it to my dad. (Dad was a medic and landed just after D-day, then shoved to the front.)

The book is part cartoon collection, part autobiography, part history lesson, my dad carried it on his vacation road trips. The binding is bad where he folded it backwards while reading. One of his habits.

I was able to retrieve it after dad passed away and I always think of him when I see it on the shelf. It's hard to read more than a few pages at a time.

The sergeant shooting the jeep is in there. Classic.

elmo iscariot said...

Fantagraphics published a giant hardcover set of all his WWII cartoons a couple years back. Most of 'em are great full page reproductions, including a bunch of unpublished cartoons and sketches.

I've had a review copy taking up space on my desk since it was published--you want it?

elmo iscariot said...

(Ignore--subscribing)

Sabra said...

The military medicine museum on Ft. Sam (still open to the public, last I checked) had a few of these on its walls; that was my introduction to his work.

Ken said...

I'm partial to "Able Fox Five to Able Fox. I got a target but you gotta be patient."