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.
