Introduction"You’ve got to be a misanthrope in this business. ... I’m touchy. I’ve got raw nerve ends, and I’ll jump. If I see a stuffed shirt, I want to punch it." - Bill Mauldin
William Henry Mauldin (1921-2003), better known to the world as Bill Mauldin, was one of the most popular and influential cartoonists of the twentieth century. He passed away on January 22, 2003 after a long career dedicated to caricature and cartoon. This online presentation celebrates his life and features a selection of original cartoons spanning the artist's remarkable career and draws exclusively from the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. In 1975, Bill Mauldin gave his papers and 1,700 original cartoon drawings dating from 1938 to 1965 to the Library of Congress, a generous gift to the American people from a man who had touched the hearts and souls of a generation of enlisted men during World War II. He later shaped the minds of thousands in his political cartoons. He won two Pulitzer Prizes in Editorial Cartooning for his work: the first for his work in Stars and Stripes in 1945 at the age of 23, and the second in 1959 for a cartoon published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. All objects in this tribute have been selected from the 1975 gift of Bill Mauldin, unless otherwise stated. All of the objects are housed in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
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