Like many G.I.s, Willie and Joe found it hard to get back into civilian life. Like their creator, baby-faced Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, they had found the issues much simpler Up Front than Back Home. This week, tired of coping with the problem of reconverting Willie, Joe and himself, Mauldin quit as a syndicated newspaper cartoonist.
A good many editors had already beaten him to the draw. They had bought his cartoons on the strength of their wartime popularity and their often bitter humor. When Mauldin went political on them, played footie with the far left and crusaded for an understanding with Russia,...
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