US’s Erosion of the Right to Cartoon Is No Laughing Matter
April 9, 2026 (fair.org) Hank Kennedy Bill Maudlin (Up Front, 4/17–22/1944) During World War II, cartoonist Bill Mauldin was summoned to a meeting with Gen. George S. Patton. Mauldin’s Stars and Stripes cartoons drew Patton’s ire over his matter-of-fact depictions of war and American GIs. To Mauldin, war was no fun adventure. In Up Front, his… Continue reading




