7/6/2023 0 Comments Willie and joe cartoons![]() Publishers were reluctant to take on the risk of printing a book about the dogfaces fighting a war, afraid that the general public would not understand and fail to respond at the cash register. "I've written about 14 books since then and none of them were like falling off a log like that one was." "It took me about five days or six days because I knew what I wanted to say about each cartoon," the author said. ![]() ![]() Plus, although known for his drawing, Mauldin was not a bad writer. The book, published in 1945, is a series of anecdotes and vignettes from a man who crossed the battlefields in a jeep to capture in ink the lives of all the Willie and Joes. ![]() The result is a book that has endured as the World War II generation has grown old and their children have reached middle age. ![]()
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