Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. As Mauldin wrote, they were men 'who are able to fight a ruthless war against ruthless enemies, and still grin at themselves.

By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. The Willie and Joe cartoons depict grizzled, dog-faced soldiers who retain the will to fight but who have grown weary of the numbing routine of cold, hunger, and the bureaucratic mindlessness of the army. Cartoon shows Willie and Joe, two enlisted men in military uniform, walking down the street with newly shined shoes as a. Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. : Fantagraphics, 2008 Created / Published Seattle, Wash.

Willie and joe cartoons