[Said a bird in the midst of the Blitz, "Up to now they've scored very few hitz, So I'll sit on my canny Old Star Spangled Fanny . . ." And on it he sitz and he sitz, 1941, UC San Diego Library.]
Dr. Seuss' Political Cartoons
[Said a bird in the midst of the Blitz, "Up to now they've scored very few hitz, So I'll sit on my canny Old Star Spangled Fanny . . ." And on it he sitz and he sitz, 1941, UC San Diego Library.]
Thesis
Before the legendary children’s book author known as Dr. Seuss wrote classics like
The Cat in the Hat, he communicated to others in a very different way. During World War II,
Dr. Seuss drew political cartoons urging his United States audience to join the war. His
cartoons were key to successly changing people's opinions about the war. Although Dr. Seuss published
his cartoons over 75 years ago, many are still relevant today.
The political cartoons were little
known until historian Richard
Minear published Dr. Seuss Goes
to War explaining the meaning of
some of Seuss' cartoons.
[Dr. Seuss Goes to War, 1999, Dr. Seuss Goes to War.]
Mark Loeffler
Dr. Seuss' Political Cartoons
Junior Division
Individual Website
Student-composed Words: 1177
Process Paper Word Count: 492