Title: Bill Mauldin Political Cartoons
Inclusive Dates: 1965-1969

Creator:

• Mauldin, Bill, 1921-2003

Call Number: PH 6495

Quantity: 48 drawings (1 flat box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Political cartoon prints, 1965-1969, created by Bill Mauldin for the Chicago Sun-Times lampooning racism, the Ku-Klux-Klan, Jim Crow laws, and the Vietnam War.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ph06495

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Bill Mauldin was born in New Mexico in 1921, went to the Academy of Fine Art in Chicago, and served in World War II. He started drawing cartoons during the war and was picked up by United Feature Syndicate in 1944. Maudlin won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945. In 1958, he went to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and won a second Pulitzer in 1959. He started drawing for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1962 and retired in 1991.

Acquisition Information

Accession Number: M2006-121

PH 6495 Box   1

Political cartoon prints, 1965-1969 Note: “It's not the danger, man--it's the haircut,” 1965 “Well, I'll be damned! I'm with the F.B.I., myself!,” 1965 “Man, you ain't learned the art of survival,” 1965 The Barbs on the Wire, 1966 “Hey, General--that's a lasso, not a whip,” 1966 Soviet Literature (Giant pen being broken over knee of Brezhnev), 1966 “I ain't on any team. I'm just trying to get to school alive,” 1966 “I see they're burnin' crosses in China, too,” 1966 “Now that you're old enough to vote, suh, ah hope you'll vote for me,” 1966 “We mustn't push it, Dean, but if it happens to fall in, let's cover it quick,” 1967 “I'm innocent, I tell you! Innocent!,” 1967 “Oh, is he C.I.A.? I thought he was F.B.I.,” 1967 “Sorry, but you'll have to start working again,” 1967 “Now we know what the old boy thinks of us,” 1967 “Man, that's the fanciest place I ever got throwed out of,” 1967 “I trust you'll only be using this stuff in the interest of National Security, Mister...,” 1967 “There ought to be some way to draft middle-aged dissenters, too,” 1967 Crap Game (draft lottery-men in the shape of dice), 1967 “So you're the agents who got the goods on Doctor Spock,” 1968 “Tsk, tsk!,” 1968 A Few Noted “Law and Order” Enthusiasts, 1968 The Strategy of Confrontation (Russians amidst crowd of protestors), 1968 “Welcome to the Chicago Club,” 1968 “Attitudes displayed here are not necessarily those of the sponsors,” 1968 Deadeye Dick (Chicago police target), 1968 “You leave Dr. Spock alone!,” 1968 “Privately, I agree with you. Publicly, I've got to jail you,” 1968 “My, it looks peaceful and safe in there,” 1968 “Personally, I was sent here for failing trigonometry,” 1968 Building Trades--Race Barrier (African-American looking into walled up opening), 1968 “Well, I'll be darned! It was already unlocked,” 1968 “My, the working man has come a long way in thirty years,” 1968 “Everything's under control, Sir, except all those pesky eyewitnesses,” 1968 “These days, man, you can't just go around unpolarized,” 1969 Careful-We're Tapped (two children with tin can phones), 1969 “But you'd lower the standards of American workmanship!,” 1969 “What manner of heretic has been brought before us today?,” 1969 “It was designed as a flag, Buddy--not as a blindfold,” 1969 “Me blind faith in law and order is shook,” 1969 “It didn't work for me, either, Dick. Nobody respects the flag anymore,” 1969 “I'm sure they did only what was necessary to preserve law and order,” 1969 “Hang on, kids--we're decelerating,” 1969 “Sorry, Wally. Let's say it was exploitation for exploitation's sake,” 1969 Our New Betsy Ross (Mitchell sewing police star on flag), 1969 “Why aren't we exposing obscenity like all the other magazines?,” 1969 “You say your son hopes to enter the university some day? So do I, madam--so do I,” 1969 (Giant police baton as a skyscraper in New York), 1969 Ding-a-Lings (sympathy for the lefts, 1968/rights, 1969), 1969