Bill Mauldin, perhaps the greatest editorial cartoonist in history, has passed away at the age of 81. Mauldin's WWII cartoons in Stars and Stripes magazine, starring his everyman soldiers Willie and Joe, were loved by countless servicemen and earned him a Pulitzer Prize, the first of two. Mike Whybark's site became a repository for messages left for the ailing Mauldin by WWII veterans and other admirers, and make for some nice tributes now that his suffering has ended.