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...literary companions Babar, Bugs Bunny and the Little Prince (and a lot of junk that I have elevated to the pop-cultural Pantheon in this column). I'm glad that Cohen has honored Geisel as a full-service wit: the humor-magazine work, the political cartoons, his cunning ad campaigns and Ted's creation of one of the most enduring, least endearing antiheroes in Hollywood cartoon history. What follows comes from studying the Cohen book, rerunning my favorites from Geisel's mid-period film work, and watching Peter Jones' excellent two-hour special for A&E's "Biography," which contains...
...first cartoon, a lampoon of the Lawrence of Arabia craze, appeared in the July 16, 1927, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The 23-year-old landed a piece in Judge three months later, and he was soon on the staff. His earliest contribution was a series on a croupier, utterly impassive as chaos explodes around him either at work (a gambler puts a pistol to his forehead) or at home (the kids attack each other while the croupier rakes in a plate from across the dinner table). His fascination with wordplay paraded itself in his oddments of fictional language...
...girls picking on boys? Since December, radio talk-show host and men's-rights activist Glenn Sacks has rallied followers to target a division of the David & Goliath line of clothing, which Sacks claims is antiboy. One T shirt features a cartoon image of a boy running from flying rocks, with text that reads, "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!" Some stores, including Bon-Macy's, have pulled the shirts. "They are part of a larger trend of male and father bashing," says Sacks. "Stopping the sale of these shirts is an initial blow to the boy-bashing culture...
...snowy weekend, causing Mac to see swirling ash for a moment. Craig dreams of HAZMAT-suited real estate agents in SOHO. Neil has to keep the news on all the time because he says, "I don't want to be the last person in the city, watching the cartoon channel, while everybody else's being evacuated." Inwardly disturbed but outwardly cool, 9/11 New York becomes a metaphor for the lives of the four friends...
Another keynote speaker, David Orr, who chairs the Environmental Studies program at Oberlin, drew laughter and applause when he snuck into his slide-show a political cartoon of Vice President Cheney strumming a banjo against the backdrop of oil rigs, singing “this land is oiled land, this land is mined land...