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Not Your Average Cat: An Overview of the Creative Genius of Dr. Seuss

  • Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane Blowing Rock, NC, 28605 United States (map)

The 37-cent Theodor Seuss Geisel commemorative stamp was issued on March 2, 2004.

In his twentieth-century career spanning just under 70 years, Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) created an immense, fantastical imaginarium of visual and verbal work that included advertisements; films; political cartoons; and books ranging from innovative & groundbreaking primers to subversively satirical fables.

$8 general public; free for Members

About the Speaker

Dr. Don Presnell is a Senior Lecturer in First Year Seminar at Appalachian State University. He has taught such thematic iterations of the course as comics & graphic novels; Doctor Who; The Twilight Zone; the Peanuts comics of Charles Schulz; the Tintin comics of Hergé; and Dr. Seuss, among others. Presnell served as the Director of the App State Common Reading Program from 2019 to 2023. He is the author of A Critical History of Television’s The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964 (McFarland, 1998) and Wandering The Wild Wild West: A Critical Analysis of the CBS Television Series (McFarland, 2021).

 

$8 for the general public; free for members.

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