[Comicsstudiessociety] Bill Mauldin book available for review for IJOCA

[Mike Rhode]

The book is taken, thank you for your interest.

Mike

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 3:52 PM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a world-wide offer as we have an early e-copy of the book
> available to the first person who writes me directly at mrhode at gmail.com.
>
> Details below:
>
> *As Bill Mauldin’s Centennial Approaches, *
>
> *New Book Celebrates Entire 50-Year Career of Greatest World War II
> Cartoonist*
> *Preface by Tom Hanks*
> Tom Brokaw, Jean Schulz Among Contributors
> Video clips, Cartoon Downloads and Book PDFs Will be Available for Media
>
>  “If a picture is worth a thousand words, Bill Mauldin drew hundreds of
> *novels*,” writes Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks in the preface to *DRAWING
> FIRE:  The Editorial Cartoons of Bill Mauldin*, edited by Todd DePastino
> (Pritzker Military Museum & Library, Sept. 1, 2020, $35.00).
>      Long known as the most prominent cartoonist of World War II, the
> two-time Pulitzer Prize winner actually enjoyed a career that spanned five
> wars overseas and five decades of tumult at home.  Now, for the first time,
> a selection of both his wartime *and* political cartoons are explored in
> an illustrated single volume, featuring selections from Chicago’s Pritzker
> Military Museum & Library, which has more than 4,500 Mauldin cartoons in
> its collections.
>
>
>
>
>      The publication of *DRAWING FIRE* kicks off a 100th birthday
> celebration that will include a spring 2021 exhibition at the Pritzker
> Military Museum & Library in Chicago, which will move to the Eisenhower
> Library in Abilene, Kansas later in the year. A documentary film on Mauldin
> will be released in late 2020. The artist's 100th birthday would have been
> on October 29th, 2021.
>      Edited by Mauldin’s biographer, Todd DePastino, and featuring 150
> images, *DRAWING FIRE* includes essays by DePastino; NBC’s Tom Brokaw;
> Jean Schulz, widow of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz; Christina M. Knopf of
> SUNY Cortland; Denise Neil of the 45th Infantry Museum; G. Kurt Piehler of
> Florida State University; Cord A. Scott of the University of Maryland,
> Global Campus for Asia; and Col. Jennifer N. Pritzker, founder of the
> Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
>      *PDFs of the entire book will be available upon request starting
> June 1. Please reply to this email to request a PDF. *
>      To coincide with the publication of *DRAWING FIRE, *a selection of
> materials will be available for media coverage, including downloadable
> Mauldin cartoons and video clips from the documentary. Editor Todd
> DePastino and Dr. Rob Havers, President and CEO of the Pritzker Military
> Museum & Library, will be available for interviews.
>
>
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