Talk:Bill Mauldin

message: *One Mauldin Cartoon shows a US cavarylman about to shoot his "Jeep". In MASH 4.5 Potter shoots his destroyed Jeep after Major Burns ran a tank over the jeep. Any connectionb between the cartoon and the TV show?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.53.145.178 (talk) 18:08, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The character of Colonel Potter was an avid horseman.  He had a horse and rode it around every now and then, if I recall correctly.  I'd say it was more likely a play on Potter's personality than a tribute to the cartoon by Mauldin.  I could always be wrong, though.~ (The Rebel At) ~ 21:34, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  That is very likely, but I bet every WWII veteran who served in the European theatre & who watched that scene immediately thought of Mauldin's cartoon. That cartoon was Mauldin's favorite. -- llywrch (talk) 04:12, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cartoon in MASH Episode? 

message: The bibliography needs work. I hope to get to it someday but feel free to do it anyone who wants! (I moved the Fantagraphics information out of the biography section since it didn't even happen in his lifetime.) rewinn (talk) 05:50, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography? 

message: ...By David Lamb in Military History Quarterly, Summer '89, seems to be the actual source of the "Soldiers were peasants to him" quote; which I haven't found so far in "The Brass Ring."  It does show up in Stephen Ambrose's intro to a reprint of "Up Front."  Anmccaff (talk) 23:16, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: As always, I could be wrong about that quote; hoping to get home early enough tonight to dig out my Mauldin books and have a look.  Unfortunately, I don't subscribe to Military History Quarterly... :-) DoctorJoeE review transgressions/talk to me! 00:58, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

text: Okay, found the Military History Quarterly reference and cited it. DoctorJoeE review transgressions/talk to me! 22:25, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Bill, Willie and Joe".... 

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message: I have read that either Time or Life or a similar magazine ran a WWIII feature in the 1950s and that for that feature they had persuaded Bill Mauldin to supply Willie & Joe cartoons for an issue, which, if I remember correctly was presented as a retrospective feature entitled "The war we did not want." Supposedly these cartoons have never been republished. Graham1973 (talk) 10:37, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bill Mauldin - Willie & Joe WWIII Cartoons 

message: The article includes the claim "Mauldin drew Willie and Joe for publication one last time on Veterans Day in 1998 for a Peanuts comic strip, in collaboration with its creator Charles M. Schulz, also a World War II veteran. Schulz signed the strip "Schulz, and my hero ..." with Mauldin's signature underneath.[22]"
While this strip exists, Mauldin did not draw the characters for this usage. Rather, Schulz swiped the figures from an existing Mauldin cartoon. You can see this documented on my blog. (Yes, it's a self-published source, but as neither Mauldin nor Schulz is a living person, and as I'm a recognized information source regarding Peanuts, this should get around WP:SPS.
I am not making this edit myself due to having retired from editing Wikipedia, but I've seen this error propogated lately, so I thought I'd call it out. --Nat Gertler (talk) 15:12, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  False Peanuts info 

message: January 15th,  in Italy, Ernie Pyle focused an entire article on the Stars and Stripes cartoonist.  It got Lee Miller, Ernie's editor, to get him syndicated state side through Ernie's distributor United Feature.
Referenced in Ernie's War: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches by Studs Terkel pages 197-199 2601:40E:101:A1F0:8929:DFA8:9B77:EA48 (talk) 06:15, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ernie Pyle got him syndicated in the US