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
Don Simpson (cartoonist) Delusive Art," in "Streetwise: Autobiographical Stories by Professionals", foreword by Will Eisner, (Raleigh NC: TwoMorrows Publishing). 1995: Cartoonist (writer-artist), "Bizarre Heroes: The Apocalypse Affiliation" (Pittsburgh PA:Fiasco Comics Inc.). 1994: Cartoonist (writer-artist) [under the pseudonym Anton Drek], " Anton's Collected Drek featuring Wendy Whitebread", second expanded edition (Seattle WA: ErosComix/Fantagraphics Books). 1990: Cartoonist (writer-artist), "Megaton Man: Volume I" (Princeton WI: Kitchen Sink Press). Don Simpson (cartoonist) Donald Edward Simpson (born 1961) is an American comic book cartoonist and freelance illustrator, most noted as the creator of the series "Megaton Man", "Border Worlds", and "Bizarre Heroes", as well as the official comic