On this day, March 2, 1904, illustrator, cartoonist, and writer Theodore Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Geisel began cartooning in college at Dartmouth and eventually found his niche in writing and illustration 46 children’s books. During WWII Geisel produced political cartoons and editorial cartoons. About his fanatasy stories he wrote, “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.”