Six long-lost tales written and illustrated by Ted Geisel a.k.a. "Dr. Seuss", published for the first time in book form!
Dr. Seuss con special at #2308!
Limited copies, so buy now— don’t wait!
We planned on debuting at SDCC--
but new printing deadlines meant for that to be,
we’d have to print earlier than we had planned
before certain stuff had appeared in our hands.
So we decided to make a partition
and print the first half in a convention edition.
The fuller edition is going through legal,
a process that we do not want to inveigle
lest we get caught in an unforeseen trap
and back in a new unwanted legal scrap.
Right after San Diego, we’ll send out surveys
and ship out the books to backers within days.
Expect the surveys on July 26,
when you’ll be requested to make final picks.
We get to publish our book of wordplay
and archival artwork from Doc Seuss's past--
long hidden from you, it'll happen at last!
Lawsuits are hard-fought and hard to endure;
and we thank you all for being the cure.
We hope you enjoy the book when you get it...
right after it finishes one final edit.
...what's our second story, so let's break that seal!
If you go to Lah-Hoy-Yah
And walk down the beach,
You might find a sort-of-a-bird called the Sneetch.
In fact, there are two sorts of Sneetches you’ll sight:
Those in Public Domain and those with copyright.
The Sneetches with copyright have a small ©.
The Public Domain ones are copyright free.
Now that ©...
It’s not big. It is really so small
You’d think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all.
But because of that ©, Dr. Seuss Enterprises
Believe they own all rights and all the franchises.
The copyright free ones they always deride,
Their very existence they try hard to hide.
“Ignore the free Sneetches! Just pass them right by!”
They aren’t the real ones and we won’t dignify!”
But the Public Domain ones...
Well, they know the score.
And they will no longer be kept in a drawer.
They’re out in the open! They’re going to be heard!
Their path to freedom’s no longer deferred!
How they fight on those beaches,
those unfriendly Sneetches!
And all because Sneetches whose bellies have ©
think they’re better than Sneetches who are copyright free.
And that’s why the © ones are trying to squeeze—
to make sure their licensees pay all their fees!
(But don’t simply swallow the Seuss estate claim,
for, except for that ©, every Sneetch is the same.)
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