![]() ![]() Occasionally contributed freelance his cartoons acquired the title Up Front when they began appearing in S&S in late 1943. ![]() It carried that name as long as it appeared in the 45 th Division News and in civilian newspapers like the Oklahoma City Times and the Daily Oklahoman, to which Mauldin ![]() The eponymous Willie and Joe, as a familiar pair,ĭon’t show up until Volume II’s Septemcartoon. Volume I's 325 8x11-inch pages are devoted to cartoons Mauldin produced before & Joe (hardcover, $65) sets the record straight: virtually all of The 45 th was bivouacking its way around the U.S. In Europe, and he carrtooned for his unit’s newspaper, the 45 th Division News, for three years, most of it while Mauldin enlisted in September 1940, long before the U.S. Hook-nosed Willie and pudding-faced Joe from Stars and Stripes, the army newspaper, but Mauldin wasn’t on the Realized upon first opening that volume is that Mauldin’s oeuvre of army lifeĬartoons is much larger than the contents of Up Front suggest. As padding for a collection of his cartoons about life in the trenches during ![]()
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