Bill Mauldin

December, 1964

With the Notable Exception of his 1963 award-winning Kennedy memorial drawing, a sensitive full-page portrayal of a sobbing Lincoln, Bill Mauldin has spent his entire cartooning career skewering every major politico in sight. A liberal by instinct, and a gut-fighter by disposition, the 43-year-old Chicago Sun-Times cartoonist refuses to be hampered by personal allegiances--"I have lots of acquaintances and few friends"--as his critical eye searches for feet of clay on political idols....