I Read It In A Book

Sunday Something Seuss Day. New magazines keep being added to the already substantial amount of downloadable material on The Internet Archive. Hey, even this blog is preserved on the Wayback Machine. But also scores of magazine form the forties and fifties, that allow me to look for my favorite cartoonists and illustrators. Here is a selection of short stories Dr. Seuss did for Redbook magazine (which had started as a magazine of adventurous historical stories, but by 1954 had become just another family magazine). I think all of them were reused in one of Dr. Suess' collections of short stories. But the art is sometimes different.

The War That Gave You More

Monday Cartoon Day.

In the war years Theodore Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss) worked inn California, doing military instruction films and stuff like that for the Signal Corps. before that, he had shown his wordly side by doing political cartoons for the leftwing New York newspaper PM. All of these magnificent cartoons have been collected a couple of years ago in a terrific book called Dr. Seuss Went To War by Richard Minear. he also has a website devoted to the same subject under the same name, which you can find here: http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dswenttowar/
I still couldn't help showing you the few cartoons I found online, just because they are so incredably well made.