Editing Bill Mauldin (section)

==Postwar activities==
In 1945, at the age of 23, Mauldin won a [[Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning|Pulitzer Prize]] for his wartime body of work, exemplified by [[:File:Fresh, spirited American troops.jpg|a cartoon depicting exhausted infantrymen slogging through the rain]], its caption mocking a typical late-war headline: "Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners".<ref name=pulitzer>[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Editorial-Cartooning "Editorial Cartooning"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224115117/http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Editorial-Cartooning |date=December 24, 2015 }}. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-01.</ref> The first civilian compilation of his work, ''Up Front'', a collection of his cartoons interwoven with his observations of war, topped the best-seller list in 1945. After the war's end, the character of Willie was featured on the cover<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19450618,00.html|title=Mauldin's 'Willie' |date= June 18, 1945|url-status=live|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904234002/http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19450618,00.html|archive-date=4 September 2019}}</ref> of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine for the June 18, 1945, issue. Mauldin made the cover of the July 21, 1961, issue.<ref>{{cite magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117005028/https://time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19610721,00.html|archive-date=17 January 2008|magazine=Time |url-status=dead|url=http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19610721,00.html|title=Bill Maudlin |date= July 21, 1961}}</ref>

After the war, Mauldin turned to drawing [[political cartoons]] expressing a generally [[civil libertarian]] view associated with groups such as the [[American Civil Liberties Union]]. These were not well received by newspaper editors, who were hoping for apolitical cartoons. Mauldin's attempt to carry Willie and Joe into civilian life was also unsuccessful, as documented in his memoir ''Back Home'' in 1947. In 1951, he appeared with [[Audie Murphy]] in the [[John Huston]] film ''[[The Red Badge of Courage (1951 film)|The Red Badge of Courage]]'', and in [[Fred Zinnemann]]'s ''[[Teresa (1951 film)|Teresa]]''.<ref name="NYT">[https://web.archive.org/web/20181122132905/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/arts/bill-mauldin-cartoonist-who-showed-world-war-ii-through-gi-eyes-dies-at-81.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 "Bill Mauldin, Cartoonist Who Showed World War II Through G.I. Eyes, Dies at 81"]. ''The New York Times''. (January 23, 2003). Retrieved September 27, 2016.</ref>

In 1956, he ran unsuccessfully for the [[United States Congress]] as a [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] in [[New York's 28th congressional district]]. Mauldin said about his run for Congress: 
<blockquote>I jumped in with both feet and campaigned for seven or eight months. I found myself stumping around up in these rural districts and my own background did hurt there. A farmer knows a farmer when he sees one. So when I was talking about their problems I was a very sincere candidate, but when they would ask me questions that had to do with foreign policy or national policy, obviously I was pretty far to the left of the mainstream up there. Again, I'm an old [[Harry S. Truman|Truman]] Democrat, I'm not that far left, but by their lives I was pretty far left.<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/mauldin/mauldin-turn.html "A Turn in Career, 1950–1958"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081408/http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/mauldin/mauldin-turn.html |date=March 4, 2016 }}. ''Bill Mauldin: Beyond Willie And Joe'', An online tribute drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress – Swann Foundation, 2003</ref></blockquote>

[[File:I won the Nobel Prize for Literature.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Mauldin's 1958 cartoon for which he received his second Pulitzer Prize]]
In 1959, Mauldin won a second Pulitzer Prize, while working at the ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]'', for a cartoon depicting Soviet author [[Boris Pasternak]] in a [[Gulag]], asking another prisoner, "I won the Nobel Prize for literature. What was your crime?"<ref name=pulitzer/> Pasternak had won the [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] for his novel ''[[Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'', but was not allowed to travel to Sweden to accept it. The following year Mauldin won the [[National Cartoonist Society]] Award for Editorial Cartooning. In 1961, he received their [[Reuben Award]] as well.

In addition to cartooning, Mauldin worked as a [[freelance writer]]. He also [[illustrator|illustrated]] many articles for ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine, ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'', ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'', and other publications. He brought back Joe as a war correspondent, writing letters to the stateside Willie. He made cartoons of Willie and Joe together only in tributes to the "soldiers' generals": [[Omar Bradley]] and [[George C. Marshall]], after their deaths; for a ''Life'' article on the "New Army"; and as a salute to the late cartoonist [[Milton Caniff]].

[[File:Mauldin Lincoln cartoon.jpg|thumb|upright|Mauldin's famous cartoon following the [[Kennedy assassination]]]]
In 1962, Mauldin moved to the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''. One of his most famous post-war cartoons was published in 1963, following the assassination of [[President of the United States|President]] [[John F. Kennedy]]. It depicted the statue of [[Abraham Lincoln]] at the [[Lincoln Memorial]], with his head in his hands.<ref name="alifeupfront" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Mauldin|first=Bill|url=https://archive.org/details/ivedecidediwantm00maul/page/74|title=I've Decided I Want My Seat Back|publisher=Harper & Row|year=1965|location=New York|pages=74|language=en|access-date=3 January 2022}}</ref>

On 7 February 1965, while visiting his son who was serving with the U.S. Army at [[Camp Holloway]], [[South Vietnam]] Mauldin was present for the [[Vietcong]] [[Attack on Camp Holloway]].<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Vietnamese guard was half strength when Reds struck|date=8 February 1965|page=1}}</ref>

In 1969, Mauldin was commissioned by the [[National Safety Council]] to illustrate its annual booklet on traffic safety. These pamphlets were regularly issued without copyright, but for this issue the council noted that Mauldin's cartoons were under copyright, although the rest of the pamphlet was not.

In 1985, Mauldin won the [[Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Arizona State University|title=Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication|url=https://cronkite.asu.edu/about/walter-cronkite-and-asu/walter-cronkite-award|access-date=November 23, 2016|date=2009-01-29}}</ref> Mauldin remained with the ''Sun-Times'' until his retirement in 1991.

He was inducted into the [[St. Louis Walk of Fame]] on May 19, 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/?view=achievement|title=St. Louis Walk of Fame Inductees|last=St. Louis Walk of Fame|publisher=stlouiswalkoffame.org|access-date=25 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031162946/http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/?view=achievement|archive-date=October 31, 2012|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> On September 19, 2001, [[Sergeant Major of the Army]] [[Jack L. Tilley]] presented Mauldin with a personal letter from [[Chief of Staff of the United States Army|Army Chief of Staff]] [[General officer|General]] [[Eric K. Shinseki]], and a hardbound book with notes from other senior Army leaders and several celebrities, including TV broadcasters [[Walter Cronkite]] and [[Tom Brokaw]], and actor [[Tom Hanks]]. Tilley also promoted Mauldin to the honorary rank of [[first sergeant]].<ref>Elder, p. 12</ref>