I still vividly remember the weird sense of dislocation I experienced the first time I discovered that Dr. Seuss had been a political cartoonist during World War II and had drawn all these pictures of Hitler. In my head, Dr. Seuss and Hitler just occupied two completely separate planes, and it was really jarring to see the two combined. I had another moment like that again yesterday, when I opened up my latest issue of Hi-Fructose magazine and discovered that Dr. Seuss was really into … taxidermy? Apparently Dr. Seuss liked to create hunting trophy-style mounted heads of fanciful animals. These creations were stitched together from actual animal parts (that Seuss acquired from his father, a warden at a local zoo) and then painted to look like Dr. Seuss cartoons come to life (and then, subsequently, death). You can see some of these on the Dr. Seuss website.
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