Bill Mauldin\nBorn October 29th 1921, passed January 22nd 2003\nEducation Chicago Academy of Fine Arts\n\nMauldin entered the US Army in 1940 via the Arizona National Guard. While in the 45th Infantry Division, Mauldin volunteered to work for the unit\'s newspaper, drawing cartoons about regular soldiers or \"dogfaces\". Eventually he created two cartoon infantrymen, Willie and Joe, who represented the average American GI.\n\nDuring July 1943, Mauldin\'s cartoon work continued when, as a sergeant of the 45th Division\'s press corps, he landed with the division in the invasion of Sicily and later in the Italian campaign. Mauldin began working for Stars and Stripes, the American soldiers\' newspaper; as well as the 45th Division News, until he was officially transferred to the Stars and Stripes in February 1944. Egbert White, editor of the Stars and Stripes, encouraged Mauldin to syndicate his cartoons and helped him find an agent. By March 1944, he was given his own jeep, in which he roamed the front, collecting material. He published six cartoons a week.\n\nMauldin was not without his detractors. His images—which often parodied the Army\'s spit-shine and obedience-to-orders-without-question policy—offended some officers. After a Mauldin cartoon ridiculed General George Patton\'s decree that all soldiers be clean-shaven at all times, even in combat, Patton called Mauldin an \"unpatriotic anarchist\" and threatened to \"throw his ass in jail\" and ban Stars and Stripes from his Third Army jurisdiction. General Dwight Eisenhower, Patton\'s superior, told Patton to leave Mauldin alone; he felt the cartoons gave the soldiers an outlet for their frustrations. \"Stars and Stripes is the soldiers\' paper,\" he told him, \"and we won\'t interfere.\"\n\nAwards:\nIn 1945, at the age of 23, Mauldin won a Pulitzer Prize for his wartime body of work\nIn 1959 Mauldin won a second Pulitzer Prize, while working at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.\n1960 National Cartoonist Society award\n1961 Reuben Award\nIn 1985, Mauldin won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism

Bill Mauldin History of American Illustration