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Peanuts#39: Bill Mauldin Apr 24, 2019 14:14:32 GMT dancelover likes this

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Post by patapin on Apr 24, 2019 14:14:32 GMT

Well, I never read any cartoon from Bill Mauldin

, and I discovered him while reading Charles Schulz's Peanuts.
There are 19 cartoons dedicated to Bil!: www.gocomics.com/blog/3501/classic-peanuts-comics-commemorating-veterans-day.

I believe Charles was very found of Bill's work!

Now, what is the meaning of the last sentence in this strip?

For me, this remark is irreverent, as if the only good thing Snoopy can say about Bill Mauldin is not his cartoons, the war, the soldiers, but just the landscapes. Hm...

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Peanuts#39: Bill Mauldin Apr 24, 2019 15:01:00 GMT

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Post by dancelover on Apr 24, 2019 15:01:00 GMT

There was much mud on the ground in WW2. (Almost as much as in WW1!)

In prior times it had been fashionable among artists to show as little mud as possible. (Mud is *so* Vulgar!)
Artists who wanted to be considered Respectable, even High-Class, excluded vulgar mud from their paintings and cartoons.

Maudlin took the opposite position. The mud, and the other vulgarity, was a basic part of the war.
Therefore he showed more mud than any other cartoonist; maybe more than any two cartoonists.
Snoopy is supporting this theory, saying that it was all of the True Mud Maudlin showed that made him so great.

Of course the mud reflected on the soldiers, and the war. Maudlin drew it all over the soldiers, and the war!

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Apr 24, 2019 14:14:32 GMT patapin said:

Well, I never read any cartoon from Bill Mauldin

For me, this remark is irreverent, as if the only good thing Snoopy can say about Bill Mauldin is not his cartoons, the war, the soldiers, but just the landscapes. Hm...

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Peanuts#39: Bill Mauldin Apr 25, 2019 8:26:32 GMT dancelover likes this

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Post by patapin on Apr 25, 2019 8:26:32 GMT

Very interesting perspective, dancelover

So Mauldin showed war as dirty it was, not like it was showed before, clean, neat, nearly attractive!

Thanks for your new light. I can now construe "He drew great mud" as a compliment.

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Peanuts#39: Bill Mauldin

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