Cartoon from Bing regarding the poor treatment of returning veterans after WW II. This is a cartoon of William Garnet "Bing" Coughlin. William Garnet "Bing" Coughlin was a Canadian World War II cartoonist who was born in Ottawa on October 7, 1905. His mother remarried after his father’s death, and the family moved to Philadelphia in 1923, where he enrolled in the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art. After graduation, he went into advertising art. Coughlin met and married his wife Margaret (Peg) White in 1929. Soon after the outbreak of World War II, Coughlin returned to Canada to serve in the Canadian Army with the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards. As a sergeant, he participated in the invasion of Sicily and fought for four months in the Italian campaign. It was during this campaign that his cartoons began to appear in the soldiers’ magazine, “The Maple Leaf.” In 1944, the troops elected the popular artist as “Canadian Man of the Year. As explained on the dust jacket, ""Bing" drew from front-line experience and, with his character "Herbie", gave Canada's soldiers many a chuckle in a grim business where chuckles were at a premium. He followed the antics of the Canadian Army in the United Kingdom, in Italy and in Northwest Europe. His cartoons scored a hit wherever servicemen gathered to discuss the issues of the day. The best of the cartoons published in The Maple Leaf, many of them still bright in the memory of the overseas fraternity, plus some brand new "episodes", have been corralled in this, the first full-scale edition of Herbie. And adding a bit of spice to the brew are the observations on soldier life by J.D.M., the editorial initial tag used by Major James Douglas MacFarlane, the former managing editor of The Maple Leaf. This is the kind of book that will be treasured, not only as a souvenir, but as a constant source of laughs and a reminder that war wasn't all hell."