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...wonder is that this ordinarily mild-mannered, suburbia-chained father, who even admits that his swimming pool is "my status symbol," is able to punch so hard. Borne to fame in World War II on the shoulders of his famed G.I. cartoon characters, Willie and Joe, Mauldin seemed dashed and aimless once the smoke of war had cleared away. "My life has been backwards," he says. "Big success, retirement, and now I'm making an honest living." Starting a brand-new career three years ago at the Post-Dispatch, he has risen to the top of his profession, using...
Voodoo & Vulnerability. Mauldin packs a wallop that can be absorbed in seconds-and seconds, as he well knows, are all his work will get from the Post-Dispatch's readers (circ. 406,947) and the other 10 million in his 99-newspaper syndication. He understands even better-as many of his colleagues seem to forget -that editorial cartooning is essentially an aggressive art, aimed at the belly rather than the brain. Mauldin never defends; he attacks. The difference between an editorial cartoon and the editorial across the page, he says, is "the difference between a sergeant's whistle...
...Bill Mauldin blows his sergeant's whistle as a call to battle. At his weakest when assaulting local targets, such as St. Louis' antiquated building code, he is strongest when blazing away with lethal skill at the vulnerable figures that prowl the political jungles of Washington and the other capitals of the world. Mauldin understands the art of politics as few cartoonists do (he has run for public office) and plays on the public's fascination with the intricacies of the subject -a fascination that has kept Advise and Consent on the bestseller lists for 100 weeks...
Cracks in the Idol. This spirit of attack charges Mauldin's work. At home, he can ridicule the race issue by drawing two Dixie rednecks armed with baseball bats and speculatively eying a Negro just out of the picture. "Let that one go," says one. "He says he don't wanna be mah equal." He treats the space race between Russia and the U.S. with barbell scorn: a monkey up a tree demands of its space-suited companion back from a quick zip through the firmament, "Where the hell have you been?" Ranging across the world for targets...
Occasionally, Mauldin's wallops land a little below the belt - as in his figure of Charles de Gaulle sitting by the bed of a skeleton labeled "Colonialism" and observing cheerfully: "While there's life there's hope." A liberal by instinct, Mauldin refused to be hog-tied by the hampering allegiances that can destroy a cartoonist's punch. "I have lots of acquaintances and few friends," he says. Democrat Mauldin was all for John Kennedy during the campaign, but lost little time after the election in searching for cracks in the idol. He poked...