false 141954 242654 0393050319 9780393050318 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173057477m/242654.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173057477s/242654.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242654.Up_Front 4.23 66 Up Front, recently reissued as a 50th-anniversary volume, Mauldin joins an absorbing narrative account of just how hellish combat is to a selection of those cartoons. Reading through this powerful book, one sees why Mauldin, in demythologizing the war, was often accused of undoing the efforts of the morale officers and politicians who assured the home front that our boys were having a fine time of it in Europe. No, Mauldin replied through Willie and Joe, our boys are being maimed and killed every day. For his honesty, the troops loved him -- and Mauldin loved them= back.]]> 141954 4.23 132 23 1994 1465265 1560978384 9781560978381 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183880939m/1465265.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183880939s/1465265.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1465265.Willie_Joe_The_WWII_Years 4.43 23 Presenting the complete WWII cartoons of Bill Mauldin, the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation.

"The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During WW II, the closest most Americans ever came to the "real war" was through the cartoons of Bill Mauldin, the most beloved enlisted man in the U.S. Army. Here, for the first time, Fantagraphics Books brings together Mauldin's complete works from 1940 through the end of the war. This collection of over 600 cartoons, most never before reprinted, is more than the record of a great artist: it is an essential chronicle of America's citizen-soldiers from peace through war to victory.

Bill Mauldin knew war because he was in it. He had created his characters, Willie and Joe, at age 18, before Pearl Harbor, while training with the 45th Infantry Division and cartooning part-time for the camp newspaper. His brilliant send-ups of officers were pure infantry, and the men loved it.

After wading ashore with his division on the first of its four beach invasions in July 1943, Mauldin and his men changed—and Mauldin's cartoons changed accordingly. Months of miserable weather, bad food, and tedium interrupted by the terror of intense bombing and artillery fire took its toll. By the year's end, virtually every man in Mauldin's original rifle company was killed, wounded, or captured.

The wrinkles in Willie's and Joe's uniforms deepened, the bristle on their faces grew, and the eyes—"too old for those young bodies," as Mauldin put it—betrayed a weariness that would remain the entire war. With their heavy brush lines, detailed battlescapes, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect, Mauldin's cartoons and captions recreated on paper the fully realized world of the American combat soldier. Their dark, often insubordinate humor sparked controversy among army brass and incensed General George S. Patton, Jr.

This is first of several volumes publishing the best of Bill Mauldin's single panel strips from 1940 to 1991 (when he stopped drawing). His Willie & Joe cartoons will be presented in a deluxe, beautifully designed two-volume slipcased edition of over 600 pages. The series is edited by Todd DePastino, whose Mauldin scholarship will be on full display in a biography of the artist coming in February 2008 from W. W. Norton. Willie & Joe will contain an introduction and running commentary by DePastino, providing context for the drawings, pertinent biographical details of Mauldin's life, and occasional background on specific cartoons (such as the ones that made Patton howl).]]> 141954 4.23 132 23 1409554 4.43 23 6 2008 618017 0891411593 9780891411598 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223662092m/618017.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223662092s/618017.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/618017.Bill_Mauldin_s_Army_Bill_Mauldin_s_Greatest_World_War_II_Cartoons 4.48 21 141954 4.23 132 23 1983 1465273 0425023095 9780425023099 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1465273.Brass_Ring 4.00 12 141954 4.23 132 23 0 1465264 0891908560 9780891908562 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1465264.Back_Home 3.80 5 141954 4.23 132 23 1947 1465263 0393073637 9780393073638 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1465263.A_sort_of_a_saga 3.33 3 141954 4.23 132 23 1973 618020 0891411151 9780891411154 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/618020.Let_s_Declare_Ourselves_Winners_and_Get_the_Hell_Out 4.00 1 141954 4.23 132 23 1985 3921411 0788132679 9780788132674 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3921411.Mud_Guts_A_Look_at_the_Common_Soldier_of_the_American_Revolution 3.00 1 141954 4.23 132 23 1978 1899338 0060128453 9780060128456 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1899338.I_ve_Decided_I_Want_My_Seat_Back 0.0 0 141954 4.23 132 23 1965 5535291 0871402556 9780871402554 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5535291.The_First_Two_Years_of_the_Nixon_Watch 0.0 0 42092 3.56 404 36 60949 4.46 13 5 141954 4.23 132 23 1971