Before ‘Cat in the Hat,’ Dr. Seuss drew cartoons to fight America First, racism, fascism – nj.com
Before ‘Cat in the Hat,’ Dr. Seuss drew cartoons to fight America First, racism, fascism – nj.com
Nearly two decades before he gave us our favorite breakfast recipe in “Green Eggs and Ham,” (1960) Dr. Seuss used his sharp wit and even sharper pen to draw political cartoons.
On this day, Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in 1904, and while children across the nation put on their red-and-white striped top hats to read "Cat in the Hat" or "Fox in Socks," political junkies might flip through the digital archives at UC San Diego Library to survey the good doctor's work from the 1940s.
Dr. Seuss drew more than 400 satirical cartoons for the now defunct New York daily newspaper PM between 1941-1943.