His maturity comes simply from a native understanding of things, and from being a soldier himself for a long time. His whiskers are soft and scant, his nose is upturned good-naturedly, and his eyes have a twinkle. He himself could never have raised the heavy black beard of his cartoon dogface. Yet he is only twenty-two, and he looks even younger. His work is so mature that I had pictured him as a man approaching middle age. He looks, in fact, exactly like a doughfoot who has been in the lines for two months. He looks more like a hobo than like your son. Mauldin’s central cartoon character is a soldier, unshaven, unwashed, unsmiling. They are about the men in the line – the tiny percentage of our vast army who are actually up there in that other world doing the dying. Mauldin’s cartoons aren’t about training-camp life, which you at home are best acquainted with. And that’s not merely because his cartoons are funny, but because they are also terribly grim and real. Bill Mauldin appears to us over here to be the finest cartoonist the war has produced.
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