Comments on: Bill Mauldin: Icon of irony http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/09/22/bill-mauldin-icon-of-irony/ Think. It ain't illegal yet... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:48:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rattus Sapiens http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/09/22/bill-mauldin-icon-of-irony/comment-page-1/#comment-83689 Rattus Sapiens Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:58:18 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=4165#comment-83689 "Of course, Mauldin wasn’t the first, but as Todd DePastino makes clear, few, if any, artists and authors before him did so with his sophisticated irony." I'd have to nominate Bruce Bairnsfather as the Mauldin of his war, you know, the Great Unpleasantness that occured between 1914-18 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bairnsfather “Of course, Mauldin wasn’t the first, but as Todd DePastino makes clear, few, if any, artists and authors before him did so with his sophisticated irony.”

I’d have to nominate Bruce Bairnsfather as the Mauldin of his war, you know, the Great Unpleasantness that occured between 1914-18

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bairnsfather

]]> By: Russ Wellen http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/09/22/bill-mauldin-icon-of-irony/comment-page-1/#comment-53267 Russ Wellen Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:08:30 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=4165#comment-53267 Thanks, guys. His appeal spanned the political spectrum. Read the book. It goes down easy. Thanks, guys. His appeal spanned the political spectrum. Read the book. It goes down easy.

]]> By: Lex http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/09/22/bill-mauldin-icon-of-irony/comment-page-1/#comment-53264 Lex Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:56:10 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=4165#comment-53264 Outstanding post. Outstanding post.

]]> By: jeff watson http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/09/22/bill-mauldin-icon-of-irony/comment-page-1/#comment-53252 jeff watson Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:06:45 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=4165#comment-53252 Great post. Jeff Great post.

Jeff

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