Seems Like Old Times.

Not many folk know that old Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) spent time during World War II drafting political cartoons. Last year, I ran across a book of his collections and today found this site on the Web.

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991) was a life-long cartoonist: in high school in Springfield, Massachusetts; in college at Dartmouth (Class of 1925); as an adman in New York City before World War II; in his many children’s books, beginning with To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street (1937). Because of the fame of his children’s books (and because we often misunderstand these books) and because his political cartoons have remained largely unknown, we do not think of Dr. Seuss as a political cartoonist. But for two years, 1941-1943, he was the chief editorial cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM (1940-1948), and for that journal he drew over 400 editorial cartoons.

Here’s one particular cartoon he drafted July 16th, 1942. Still seems appropriate today, does it not? The following link has done Dr. Seuss one better.

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