I first learned about war when I met a couple of guys named Willie and Joe in the living room of the place I lived as a child. They were cartoon characters, a pair of GIs from World War II, who were ...

In World War II, Bill Mauldin created two cartoon soldiers named and Willie and Joe. His drawings are now starring on t-shirts sold to benefit a nonprofit for military personnel and their families ...

While World War II raged overseas, pop-culture creators on the American home front were in an awkward spot: How could their art help the war effort without becoming dry and preachy? How could they ...

IN THE Martin Scorsese-directed “Life Lessons,” within the larger film “New York Stories,” a grizzled abstract painter played by Nick Nolte is cleaned-up and charismatic in tux and tales – yes, tales, ...