[Editorial cartooning] is essentially a destructive art. We are not pontificators, or molders of thought—or at least we shouldn't try to be. Ours is more the role of the lowly gadfly: circle and stab, circle and stab. Roughly put, our credo should be, if it's big, hit it.

44) postage stamp in Mauldin's honor depicting him with Willie & Joe. )
Those officers who had served in the army before the war were generally offended by Mauldin who parodied the spit-shine and obedience-to-order-without-question view that was more easily maintained during that time of peace. In 1962 he moved to the Chicago Sun-Times.

William Henry "Bill" Mauldin (October 29 1921 – January 22 2003) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from the United States. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers as represented by the archetypal characters "Willie and Joe" two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field.