Willie & Joe: The WWII Years

Bill Mauldin's iconic World War II cartoons, featuring the weary, sardonic infantrymen Willie and Joe, are collected and contextualized in this ongoing Fantagraphics series launched in 2011. Mauldin's gritty, compassionate work, originally published in the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, captured the daily grind and dark humor of the common soldier with unmatched authenticity. This series preserves his legacy as one of the war's most essential chroniclers, presenting his art in a definitive archival format.