Willie & Joe: The WWII Years

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.: Fantagraphics Books, 2008. STATED, First Edition, March 28, 2008. Green Boards Black Lettering. Near Fine/Slipcase. 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. This Edition contains the information and cartoons that were deemed classified. (STATED:This material, Declassifiedd DOD DIR 5200.10, June 29 NE by WGJ date 6-27-07 Editor's Note: Willie and Joe is a complete collection of Bill Mauldin's Army cartoons...at least as far as we know. A poor infantry private. Very interesting story of a private's life, a true understanding of the quote 'A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS'. 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.


This is first of several volumes publishing the best of Bill 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 & Joewill 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). Fantagraphics STATED, First Edition, March 28, 2008. both volumes in Near Fine condition, the Slip Case in better than Good condition, solid , one slight bump to top, left.




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