2010 US postage stamp.
William Henry Mauldin (October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American cartoonist, best known for his World War II cartoons featuring soldiers Willie and Joe (no, not those ones, these ones), which were originally published in Stars and Stripes and subsequently collected in the bestselling 1945 memoir Up Front. After the war he worked as an editorial cartoonist and freelance writer and illustrator. The artist's most famous work outside of Willie and Joe was a 1963 editorial cartoon that portrayed the Lincoln Memorial in anguish, with its head in its hands, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Mauldin also dabbled in acting, playing a supporting role in the 1951 film adaptation of The Red Badge of Courage, and also made an (unsuccessful) run for Congress in 1956. Mauldin was also one of the interviewees for The Good War
, a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1984 oral history book compiled by Studs Terkelnote .
Beginning in 1969, Peanuts cartoonist and WWII vet Charles M. Schulz paid tribute to Mauldin each Veterans Day, usually by having Snoopy go over to his house to "quaff a few root beers". For the 1998 strip, he incorporated a bit of Mauldin's own artwork to show Willie and Joe encountering Snoopy on a battlefield.
