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World War II Political Cartoons Scrapbook. MSS 6130; 20th and 21st Century Western and Mormon Americana; L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. Aunt Ethel's War - A collection of World War 2 Political Cartoons. At the beginning of World War II, Ethel Snoddy began clipping political cartoons from ...
William Henry Mauldin (/ ˈ m ɔː l d ən /; October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003) was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers ...
A Cartoon History of Our Times (1939) Europe since Versailles (1940) All behind you (1940) [16] Europe at War (1941) The World at War (1942) [17] Years of Wrath: A Cartoon History 1932–45 (1949) Low Visibility: A Cartoon History 1945–53 (1953) Autobiography (M. Joseph, 1956), 387 pp., LCCN 57-577; The Fearful Fifties: A History of the ...
[5] The co-creator of Captain America, Joe Simon, commented on the accessibility of enemy characters and leadership in ridiculing and undermining their position and justifying U.S. involvement in World War II, stating, "Captain America was the first major comic book hero to take a political stand. ... Hitler was a marvelous foil; a ranting maniac."
Willie and Joe comics were created by Bill Mauldin during World War II. [7] During World War II, Mauldin was a soldier in the 45th Infantry Division and he worked for the unit's newspaper. During his work for the newspaper, he created infantrymen cartoon characters, Willie and Joe.
Mauldin was sent to combat, influencing his cartoons. They gradually became darker and more realistic in their depiction of the weariness of the enduring miseries of war. [2] He extended the bristles on their faces and the eyes – "too old for those young bodies", as Mauldin put it [2] – showed how much Willie and Joe suffered. In most ...
George Goodwin Butterworth (1905–1988) worked as a British political, strip and sports cartoonist, and later a book illustrator.He often used the byline "GGB." During World War II his cartoon Maltese Cross in the Daily Dispatch gave groundswell to the island receiving the George Cross for heroism in April 1942.
The Soviet general Viktor Matsulenko deemed the battle to be the "beginning of a basic turning point not just in the course of the Great Patriotic War, but for the entire World War II" and that the battle was the "most important military-political event of World War II". [317]