Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)
Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss (b. 1904) Published his first children's book in 1937. Geisel's early artwork often employed the shaded texture of pencil drawings or watercolors, but in his children’s books of the postwar period, he generally made use of a starker medium—pen and ink—normally using just black, white, and one or two colors. His later books, such as The Lorax, used more colors. Geisel's figures are often "rounded" and somewhat droopy. This is true of the faces of the Grinch and the Cat in the Hat. Almost all his buildings and machinery were devoid of straight lines when they were drawn, even when he was representing real objects.