The Cat in the Hat use of the term "cat" to refer to jazz musicians. According to Nel, "Even as [Geisel] wrote books designed to challenge prejudice, he never fully shed the cultural assumptions he grew up with, and was likely unaware of the ways in which his visual imagination replicated the racial ideologies he consciously sought to reject." Geisel once called the fish "my version of Cotton Mather", the Puritan moralist who advised the prosecutors during the Salem witch trials. Betty Mensch and Alan Freeman support this view, writing, "Drawing on old Christian symbolism (the fish was an ancient sign of Christianity) Dr. Seuss
Cat-Head Comics Krystine Kryttre, and J. R. Williams. From 1993–1998, Cat-Head retrenched, focusing on Lafler solo titles like "Bughouse" and the ongoing "Buzzard" anthology. Critic Rob Clough described "Bughouse" as Lafler's All six issues of "Bughouse" were later collected into a trade paperback by Top Shelf Productions. Cat-Head Comics Cat-Head Comics was an American alternative/underground comics publisher that operated from 1980–1998. Founded by cartoonist Steve Lafler as a vehicle for his own work, Cat-Head was later joined by writer/poet/editor Stephen Beaupre. Cat-Head's longest-running title was the anthology "Buzzard", which lasted 20 issues. In addition to Lafler and Beaupre, creators published by Cat-Head