Lot 63: MAULDIN, BILL. 1921-2003.

Original illustration, pen and ink on stiff paper, color overlay, 11 ½ x 9 ¼ inches, signed ("Bill Mauldin"), [June 1975], "Playboy, June" written on mount, depicting two soldiers, one on his radio, mounted, matted and framed, fine.

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin here depicts for Playboy Magazine Vietnam-hardened versions of his characters Willie and Joe. A caption on the mat reads: "Jeez, Willie, Now they're drafting radios."
See illustration.