![]() His father introduced him to a local cartoonist, who provided a few lessons and encouragement. Shortly before his parents divorced in the mid-1930s, Mauldin decided to become a cartoonist and enrolled in a $20 correspondence course. A scrawny, bowlegged adolescent, Mauldin attributed his physique and physical limitations to rickets, from which he suffered as a child. His father, a World War I veteran described as a hard-drinking jack-of-all-trades, earned a meager living. Mauldin, the younger of two sons of Sidney Albert Maul-din, a handyman, and Edith Katrina (Bemis) Mauldin, a homemaker, spent his youth in New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico. 22 January 2003 in Newport Beach, California), Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist whose fictional soldiers Willie and Joe provided a candid view of combat in World War II from the perspective of the infantrymen on the front line. 29 October 1921 in Mountain Park, New Mexico d. ![]()
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