It traces the improbable career and tumultuous private life of a charismatic genius who rose to fame on his motto: If it's big, hit it.

Up Front featured the wise-cracking Willie and Joe, whose stooped shoulders, mud-soaked uniforms, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect bore eloquent witness to the world of combat and the men who lived-and died-in it.This taut, lushly illustrated biography-the first of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin-is illustrated with more than ninety classic Mauldin cartoons and rare photographs.

Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to throw his ass in jail to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, Up Front, to the pages of Stars and Stripes. During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the real war came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. New stated first edition, first printing hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Ambrose.īook Synopsis The real war, said Walt Whitman, will never get in the books. This reissue of his 1945 classic book of text and drawings features a spectacular new Foreword by Stephen E. On the whole, Nordicness in comics is variable and diverse, and rather than a phenom- enon based on inherent quality or aesthetic commonality, new Nordic comics are a result of promotional strategies, cultural policies, and transnational connections between Nordic actors in the comics field.About the Book In his drawings of the infantry dogfaces Willie and Joe, Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin created the immortal archetypes of the American fighting man. The comics, however, occasionally bear witness to a Nordic background or heritage, for instance, in the form of words in Finnish or the Scandinavian languages, names of characters or the milieux in the comics. In these respects, Nordic comics are part of a broader transnational comics culture. We state that the comics in the collections are not identifiable as particularly Nordic based on their themes or the stylistic or visual repertoires. We discuss in what way Nordic comics might be said to be new and how they can be considered to be Nordic.

Throughout history, the cultures of the Nordic countries have at certain points been seen through a lense that stresses regional commonality, most recently with terms like ‘‘New Nordic Cooking’’ or ‘‘Nordic Noir.’’ In this article, we examine the possibility of a common concept of ‘‘New Nordic Comics’’ by analyzing a number of Nordic comics anthologies.

Bill mauldin a life up front