Lemurian Congress

A "Dr. Seuss in Africa" that doesn't make my skin crawl more than a few feet! The lack of any dialect comedy helps, and also t...

I don't know about insects eating oatmeal for breakfast -- I suppose they'll eat anything for breakfast, actually -- but I'll sa...

Because I can't think of anything clever or historically-relevant to say about this particular Dr. Seuss cartoon, I'll simply ask: d...

When I say repeatedly that the early New Yorker magazine didn't usually tackle serious subjects, I was obviously lying, because here is ...

I'll certainly give Dr. Seuss this: he hasn't duplicated a theme yet! Sure it's the oft-spotted John Cleese protagonist, but Dr....

The usual assortment of Dr. Seuss insects form the "Self-Defense Association of American Household Insects," and their charibug ha...

Ahh yes, the drama of the depressed bug. I expect this would have happened pretty frequently if insect legs worked that way. (From the May 1...

When menaced by the big-assed stuff of nightmares... I'm a bit confused by the insignia on John Cleese's right cuff...is that a nava...

I was going to mention that Dr. Seuss draws his insects larger than they really are, but then I'd also have to mention their binocular v...

May your New Year be as happy as a knight with a suit full of bug repellent!

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Who ever said Dr. Seuss wasn't a horndog? From the January 25, 1930 issue of The New Yorker. And, errr, "of its time."

On January 4, 1930, Dr. Seuss gives us two tragically mutated Lovecraftian nightmares...AND a well-worn vaudeville joke! This "What is ...

Awwww, this one is truly sad. Not even the ubiquitous cat could bear to be in it. From the December 7, 1929 issue of The New Yorker. Weep!

He's trying out that panel-style again in the November 16, 1929 New Yorker: It's difficult to comment on this one, other than to sug...

This time around -- in the October 26, 1929 New Yorker -- Dr. Seuss draws some pretty cool bugs. I like the way they speak in old-timey-prop...

This episode of "Dr. Seuss and Flit" is a bit unusual, because it comes in comic strip form. Have you noticed that comic axes alwa...

In other news from September 14, 1929, Dr. Seuss continues to entertain us with his Flit advertisements. This time, a woman is going to a pa...

Dr. Seuss was nothing if not imaginative, and he certainly knew how to work the current fads into his advertisements. But none have been so ...

Call me stupid for not knowing what a " niblick " was, but I suspect it's a term that isn't exactly common these days. I m...