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Ernie Pyle, top G.I. war correspondent, called Sergeant Bill Mauldin the best cartoonist of the war. His drawings, thought Pyle, often went beyond comedy, were "terribly grim and real . . . about the men who are ... doing the dying." That was enough for smart George A. Carlin, boss of United Feature Syndicate. In a fortnight 22-year-old Sergeant Mauldin's unshaven, unsmiling infantryman "G.I. Joe" and his hard-faced pals will become syndicated newspaper characters. This week Carlin reported that 42 papers had signed...
...Sergeant Mauldin has been at the front in Sicily and Italy. His battle-weary "Joe," confusedly making the best of his hard, humorless life, began as a diversion for Mauldin's 45th Division, quickly spread to the North African edition of Stars & Stripes...
Comic Sourpuss. Star of the 48th News is its cartoonist, babyfaced, 22-year-old Bill Mauldin (onetime truck driver, Chicago dishwasher and sign painter), from Phoenix, Ariz. Mauldin's chief character is an unshaven, weary-shouldered, sad-eyed "Joe," the typical U.S. soldier learning war the hard way. Soldiers think he is so true to life that potent Stars & Stripes also runs him now & then. "Joe" seldom smiles as he goes through the trials of the soldier's life. Explains Mauldin: "Life up there isn't very funny. I was 18 when I joined...
...Bike. Robinson's men can do a swift and objective job of reporting. When the 45th first went into action in Sicily, its News .staff went along. Mauldin cycled to beachhead ships to fetch news from their radios and personal experiences of the men. Result: first Allied invasion edition in Sicily, a hand-pressed single sheet. Moving up, the News soon had another extra, delivered by ration box. The headline: "Benito Finite...