I have a book of Dr. Seuss’ political cartoons. they are excellent and I almost wished he had had a longer career, he was ahead of his time on a lot of things.

And a lot of Seuss’s later kids’ books have actual messages to them. Kids may not understand then beyond tales of cats and elephants, but parents who read it every day start wondering.

I remember finding out about his War Manual work from a Ray Harryhausen interview… they worked together on a character called SNAFU… Yep.. “Situation Normal…etc.”

Did they coin the term together, or had it been popularised beforehand?

And a lot of Seuss’s later kids’ books have actual messages to them. Kids may not understand then beyond tales of cats and elephants, but parents who read it every day start wondering.

Probably the best examples of this is The Butter-Battle Book, which is a commentary on the nuclear arms race, and the Lorax, which is way-ahead-of-its-time environmentalism.

As a side note, for a long time many pro-lifers claimed “Horton Hears a Who” as anti-abortion (“A person’s a person, no matter how small”), but Seuss apparently intended to promote racial equality. I’m not sure if Seuss himself took a public stance on abortion, but otherwise he clearly was a New Deal Democrat.

Love, love, love the imimitable art style. No one doesn’t recognize Dr. Seuss.

And of course Yurtle The Turtle was a huge allegory about Hitler.

Geez, that’s some gorgeous stuff.

I’m really loving this series. Thanks, Brian.

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There were several volumes of this and other stuff from throughout his career on Wowio.com, which were really great.

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the were really meaning full

help cant go to sleep to booorrriiinngg

He is awesome!

Dr. Suess knew his stuff! Great artist!

This really helps me with a school project about political cartoons. THANKS BUNCHES!!!!!

I never knew Dr. Suess did political cartoons as well as children’s books! I loved his books as a kid, and now learning this is helping me with my history class! haha

I love the irst one, completely true, it bugs me when americans are all cocky because the “won” ww2 even though they didn’t join it till the very end when every other country had prety much run dry.

This political cartoons are funny to look at.

I’m this for my project at school i found funny ones on google.com
i like Dr.suess when is his brithday.

i love dr.suess

nice…

I <3 doctor suess.

Wow people get a life

I appreciate your work, keep-on. But do many concerning Religion, too.

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Dear Compiler, this is a great collection of Geisel’s comics! However, i would like to offer you another interpretation of your last inclusion, the comic about the Japanese American citizens. This comic was is ironic, in response to the American government’s internment of nearly 110,000 Japanese Americans in “War Relocation Camps” in 1942 after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Geisel’s likely intent is to mock the government’s ridiculous assumption that any Japanese person living in the US from California, to Oregon, to Washington would have Japanese sympathies and serve as Japanese spies against the American government during the war. The unending line of Japanese people lining up to receive arms and wait for the call is hyperbolic to the point of being absolutely ludicrous, outrageous, even fascist. After all, these people were Americans, and indeed many Japanese Americans died in pursuit of the democratic ideal in the horrors of World War II. Geisel was not being racist here, he was a champion of democracy and equal treatment, as is reflected in his comics about the Civil Rights Movement and antisemitism. Many of Seuss’ books also reflect his ideals of balancing individual freedom with individual responsibility for the greater good of the community of the world.

However, in addendum, the actual cartoon depiction of the Japanese Americans is rather offensive. Despite the fact that they are cartoon depictions, the depiction of the Germans does not reflect such offensive stereotypical imagery, so it is confusing why such an otherwise racially tolerant man would draw a race of people in such a manner.

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