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Before Dr. Seuss became the household name that he earned by his children stories, he was a writer in many forms. He started writing for the ``Jack 'o Lantern'' the Dartmouth college humor magazine, and gained much notoriety by writing with ``Judge'' magazine after that. He also did very well for himself by writing ads, most notably are the Flit ads, for Flit pesticides. At any rate, here are some selected writings that appeared from those forums. (As a side note, some of these writings did depend on their art work for the punch lines, others however were only enhanced by the art. I will only include the ones which seems to me that the humor can stand on its own.)
Some others in this list are short poems he wrote for himself, or for friends. I must admit that some of these have "adult" themes to them. Others just won't be of much interest at all to kids, so this is some what considered to be an "adult" area. In fact some of these punchlines use words that have fallen out of common language. In order for them to make sense you must either know the word, or look it up in the dictionary. I will not supply definitions for words like "capon," which is a punchline word.
This list will grow as I have time to add entries
In addition to these works, I have recently added some of his early political cartoons look for more as I find them.
=as of 10/31/96 Happy Halloween
Early Drawings of the Cat in the Hat
About writing Mulberry Street
The Sad, Sad Story of the Obsks
``I Am Prepared''*a Poem on Death
Lyrics for ``Oh They Places You'll Go!''
movie
``To a Butterfly With Fallen Womb
The Unkown Soldier
The Newport Van Blecks
His feelings on big Social Parties
More on the party scene
An Untitled Poem
A Wedding Poem
Dr. Seuss Vs. The Nazi's
Ough! Ough!
Just What Is A Vernacular Anyway
The Lap Dog Situation
Three New Uses for Obsolete Objects
Punish your offspring scientifically
Our Emotional Apparati
Monosyllabic Ejaculations
Adam's Apples Are Coming Back
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