{"id":268,"date":"2006-09-04T22:29:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T05:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=268"},"modified":"2006-09-04T22:29:20","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T05:29:20","slug":"that-schulzmauldin-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/that-schulzmauldin-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"That Schulz\/Mauldin collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"8\" align=\"right\" title=\"Schulz\/Mauldin strip segment\" alt=\"Schulz\/Mauldin strip segment\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaugh.com\/images\/mauldinpeanuts.jpg\" \/>Whenever someone says that no one besides Schulz drew the Peanuts newspaper strip, some nitpicky fan like myself is apt to add a caveat about the 1998 Veterans Day strip, signed &#8220;Schulz and my hero Bill Mauldin&#8221;, in which Snoopy meets Mauldin&#8217;s classic wartime characters Willie &#038; Joe, favorites of the soldiers during World War II, who found that these single-panel cartoons in <em>Stars and Stripes<\/em> reflected their own experiences. (You can see this strip on page 138 of <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0345442695\">It&#8217;s a Dog&#8217;s Life, Snoopy<\/a>.) So did Schulz really have someone else draw part of this Peanuts strip?<\/p>\n<p>As Todd DePastino, author of an upcoming biography of Mauldin pointed out to me, not really.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"8\" align=\"left\" title=\"Mauldin cartoon, June 26 1944\" alt=\"Mauldin cartoon, June 26 1944\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaugh.com\/images\/mauldin.jpg\" \/>It turns out that what Schulz did was reuse the Willie and Joe figures from a Mauldin cartoon that was first published on June 26, 1944 (in the Mediterranean edition of <em>Stars and Stripes<\/em>). This one made a useful source, because the characters are looking down at and commenting on discarded gas masks (&#8220;I see Comp&#8217;ny E got th&#8217; new style gas masks, Joe.&#8221;) Remove the gas masks (and the rest of the background) and add in Snoopy as the war&#8217;s smallest soldier, and now Willie and Joe are looking down at him.<\/p>\n<p>So rather than a collaboration, it&#8217;s more along the line of what Schulz would do on other wartime strips with reusing old photos.<\/p>\n<p>DePastino&#8217;s Mauldin bio is slated to come from WW Norton in the fall of next year. He&#8217;s also working with <em>Complete Peanuts<\/em> publisher Fantagraphics on a series of new Mauldin collections, starting with a two-volume complete collection of the wartime and military cartoons, <em>Willie &#038; Joe: WWII Years<\/em>. I suspect a few of you out there are going to want these books for your shelves, and I will try to remember to mention them again as their release approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever someone says that no one besides Schulz drew the Peanuts newspaper strip, some nitpicky fan like myself is apt to add a caveat about the 1998 Veterans Day strip, signed &#8220;Schulz and my hero Bill Mauldin&#8221;, in which Snoopy meets Mauldin&#8217;s classic wartime characters Willie &#038; Joe, favorites of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schulzpeanuts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}