Al Capp's politics shifted from FDR liberal to Nixon conservative, so it's hard to say.
The political hints we can take from his books, though, seemed to reflect liberal interests. "Yertle the Turtle" was a late slap at Hitler types (interestingly, we can see the early genesis of the story in those political cartoons: "It's hard to make a V out of turtles" has the turtle-stacking motive). The Lorax was an environmentalist tract (though at the time it came out, Nixon may have been our most environmentalist president since Teddy).
Of course, the anti-piano-lesson bias in The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T was a slap in the fact to all piano teachers, but I'll overlook that for his good work elsewhere...
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I wonder what Suess would draw about the politics of today?
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The political hints we can take from his books, though, seemed to reflect liberal interests. "Yertle the Turtle" was a late slap at Hitler types (interestingly, we can see the early genesis of the story in those political cartoons: "It's hard to make a V out of turtles" has the turtle-stacking motive). The Lorax was an environmentalist tract (though at the time it came out, Nixon may have been our most environmentalist president since Teddy).
Of course, the anti-piano-lesson bias in The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T was a slap in the fact to all piano teachers, but I'll overlook that for his good work elsewhere...
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