Blog, you've been crazy 'bout the racist, jingoist Disney & Warner WWII cartoons for years now. But are you aware of Dr. Suess' works from the era? He worked as an animator on propaganda during WWII, and also drew political cartoons. A recent PBS biography of him included a few samples. They generally savaged the Japanese: garishly yellow, big buck teeth, the usual. One editorial cartoon he drew during the war actually argued in favor of internment! Now THAT's interesting!
I'll try to find some samples. Watch FLOG.
Blog, you've been crazy 'bout the racist, jingoist Disney & Warner WWII cartoons for years now. But are you aware of Dr. Suess' works from the era? He worked as an animator on propaganda during WWII, and also drew political cartoons. A recent PBS biography of him included a few samples. They generally savaged the Japanese: garishly yellow, big buck teeth, the usual. One editorial cartoon he drew during the war actually argued in favor of internment! Now THAT's interesting!
I'll try to find some samples. Watch FLOG.
I was saddened that Time/Life never included this article in its many retrospectives on the 20th century.
"Chinese wear rational calm of tolerant realists. Japs, like General Tojo, show humorless intensity of ruthless mystics."
I can picture a Japanese guy on the bus being watched by nervous passengers with Life magazines.
I was saddened that Time/Life never included this article in its many retrospectives on the 20th century.
"Chinese wear rational calm of tolerant realists. Japs, like General Tojo, show humorless intensity of ruthless mystics."
I can picture a Japanese guy on the bus being watched by nervous passengers with Life magazines.
I think I've seen an animated Dr. Suess propaganda short but it's sort of hazy. I may have dreamt it. Watching Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck mutate into racist super-patriots is much more memorable, I guess.
Nice, wholesome LIfe magazine ran an article like that? I wonder what sort of stuff the Saturday Evening Post was running in 1941.
I think I've seen an animated Dr. Suess propaganda short but it's sort of hazy. I may have dreamt it. Watching Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck mutate into racist super-patriots is much more memorable, I guess.
Nice, wholesome LIfe magazine ran an article like that? I wonder what sort of stuff the Saturday Evening Post was running in 1941.
Dr. Suess did a series called "Private Snafu" for Warner Brothers, which discussed things a U.S. soldier should not do (like reveal military secrets to sexy, half-naked Nazi spies).
Dr. Suess did a series called "Private Snafu" for Warner Brothers, which discussed things a U.S. soldier should not do (like reveal military secrets to sexy, half-naked Nazi spies).
I didn't know Seuss had a hand in the SNAFU series. One of those shorts popped up in a program at the Clinton Street Theater a few years back. In it, SNAFU gets drunk in a bar and starts blabbing to, yup, the sexy Nazi spy. If memory serves, his battleship is torpedo'd at the end.
The moral of this story? Don't talk to Germans.
I didn't know Seuss had a hand in the SNAFU series. One of those shorts popped up in a program at the Clinton Street Theater a few years back. In it, SNAFU gets drunk in a bar and starts blabbing to, yup, the sexy Nazi spy. If memory serves, his battleship is torpedo'd at the end.
The moral of this story? Don't talk to Germans.
Disney's plot to never let their copyrights expire makes even more sense now.
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