The Cat in the Hat book's title character in the tradition of con artists in American art, including the title characters from Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" and L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". Nel also contends that Geisel identified with the Cat, pointing to a self portrait of Geisel in which he appears as the Cat, which was published alongside a profile about him in "The Saturday Evening Post" on July 6, 1957. Michael K. Frith, who worked as Geisel's editor, concurs, arguing that "The Cat in the Hat and Ted Geisel were inseparable and the same. I think there's no question
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