What's Got Your Back Up?

by Bill Mauldin

A collection of newspaper cartoons from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch covering mid 1958 -January 1961, with occasional commentary from the author on things that - even though less than three years in the past at that point - might have been obscure to the average reader.

Genres: History, Cartoon, Comics, Humor

146 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1961

About the author

William Henry "Bill" Mauldin was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from the United States. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe. These cartoons were broadly published and distributed in the American army abroad and in the United States.

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

A self-curated collection of political cartoons from the last years of the Eisenhower Administration and the first month of Kennedy's. Most interesting for the many teapot-tempests that were worthy of commentary at the time but are utterly obscure now, and for the in-the-moment opinions on and scandals of the few still-recognizable political figures - opinions that in many cases have been downplayed or glossed over and scandals which are wholly ignored outside of the most academic of circles.

[Charles H Berlemann Jr · Rating 4 out of 5]

A selection of editorial cartoons done by Bill Mauldin from the 50s and early 60s. Covering a wide gambit of issues from the 1960s election cycle to civil rights issues. This is a left of center Bill Mauldin who is coming thru as you can see in his drawings on some of the GOP members. This aligns with some of his writing in his 1946 book Back Home. Also interesting to see what is old is new again with regards to the views of the GOP by some of the media back then with regards to Romney, Nixon, Goldwater and the party of Ike. As well as just casting Ike as a wild eye radical. Its his civil rights drawings that really got me and this was a big issue for Mauldin. This is only 1 of three books by Bill about his drawings post US Army life. The other two are I've Decided I Want My Seat Back and Let's Declare Ourselves Winners-and Get the Hell Out. I would recommend these books for serious collectors of Bill Mauldin or even for the history student to see someone's drawings on hot topics besides Herblock or of the other famous editorial cartoonists of the era.