Dr. Seuss

How the Grinch Stole Modern Christmas

From his storybook legacy to his modern-day anti-holiday influence, the Grinch has become an enduring face of the holidays—sincerely or otherwise.

Zack Snyder’s Sci-Fi Epic Rebel Moon Scores Big for Netflix

Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire topped the streamer's English-language film watchlist after its debut December 22.

The Grinch and Martha May Whovier Headline Grinchmas at Universal Theme Parks

Who needs Santa and Mrs. Claus when Universal Studios Hollywood has Whoville's icons?

The Era Defining Naughtiness of The Live-Action The Grinch Can Be Explained By One Small Detail

The energy carried by Martha May Whovier makes a lot of sense now, huh?

The Mean One Looks Like Yet Another Unnecessary Cynical Children’s Horror Parody

Terrifier 2 breakout David Howard Thornton plays the Grinch in this upcoming holiday release.

Banned Books Every Climate Nerd Should Read

Some parents and school districts weren't happy about the environmental messages in these books.

J.J. Abrams Will Produce Oh, the Places You’ll Go! as Part of a Dr. Seuss Cinematic Universe

Growing up, before you started reading comic books or watching action movies, odds are you experienced the words of Dr. Seuss. Well, in the upcoming years, Dr. Seuss will join those popular genres on the big screen as his stories get their very own cinematic universe from Warner Bros. Animation. Things will begin in 2024…

Tree Believed to Have Inspired Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax Has Died

Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) once wrote his popular children’s books atop Mount Soledad in San Diego, California. From there, he could see a single Monterey Cypress tree that sat within Ellen Browning Scripps Park in La Jolla, California. That tree is thought to have helped inspire The Lorax. Now, that tree is dead. The fallen…

The Monkey That Inspired The Lorax Is Losing Its Trees

In 1971, Theodor Geisel, writing as “Dr. Seuss”, introduced readers to the Lorax, a grouchy, orange, mustachioed advocate for a habitat being destroyed by the Once-ler and his relatives in their quest for Thneed market saturation. The story has taught generations of schoolchildren that animals and plants depend on one another. And while it was…

You’re an Orphan With a Giant Onion Head, Mr. Grinch

The tagline for this latest Grinch trailer is, fittingly: “It’s never too early to be annoyed at Christmas.” I’d beg to differ, Hollywood! Although, considering how this trailer has left me annoyed at everything it is, does, and represents—mission accomplished. Also, Cindy Lou-Who is now a gang leader. The second trailer is here for The…

Scientists Use Ancient DNA to Identify Bizarre Species That Baffled Darwin

What has a body like a humpless camel, legs like a skinny rhino, and a face like the short-trunked saiga antelope? Until only recently, the accepted answer was Charles Darwin’s, and I paraphrase: “I have no idea what the hell this is.” A team of biologists used ancient DNA to finally find this mysterious mammal…

How the Rhymes of Dr. Seuss Helped Teach Us Language

Kaptain Kristian’s latest explainer video is a fun one: he explains how the anapestic tetrameter rhyming style of Dr. Seuss helped us better understand language as kids, all while rhyming in the video himself. It’s stupid catchy (obviously, because it’s done in the style of Dr. Seuss) and so easy to listen to, which is…

A Previously Unpublished Dr. Seuss Book Is Coming Out This Summer

When Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, passed away in 1991, he left behind a few manuscripts that were nearly finished. One of those manuscripts, What Pet Should I Get? is currently being colored and will be posthumously published this coming July. Image from Random House Children’s Books, via The New York Times.…

Why is slime, specifically snot-like green slime of the “I’ve-been-slimed!” variety, so endlessly fascinating? This impressively detailed article traces the history and lasting appeal of the gloriously gross substance, from Dr. Seuss to the Ghostbusters, Ninja Turtles to Nickelodeon, and beyond.

What If Doctor Seuss Drew All 13 Doctor Who Incarnations?

Doctors Who and Seuss blend together in a new work by Seussian mashup maestro DrFaustusAU. Oh, the times and places they’ll go! Head over to deviantART where he also has his illustrations formatted as storybook pages. Now we need a poem about the Doctors written in anapestic tetrameter. The Doctors Who [DrFaustusAU on deviantART via…

Neil Gaiman reading Green Eggs and Ham is pure wonderfulness

This video of Gaiman reading Dr. Seuss’s iconic children’s book, just posted to his blog, is one of the best things we’ve seen all week. Gaiman read the book in recognition of the Worldbuilders 2014 charity – a philanthropic effort orchestrated by epic fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss and founded on the premise of “geeks doing…

This “villain dresses up” song is like a crackpipe jammed in your skull

You only wish you could get dressed with one 1/100th as much frenzied panache as Dr. Terwilliger in this insane musical number from the 1953 Dr. Seuss movie The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. Seriously, just when you think it’s gone too far… it goes farther. This is the crucial “Doe-Me-Doe Duds” song in which…

What if Dr. Seuss wrote Jurassic Park?

If Dr. Seuss created Jurassic Park, it would probably look (and sound) a lot like this bananas creation Seusstastic Park. Behold, all the stripey wonder! In celebration of a Best Western getting a dino-overhaul, the toy designer Sillof was hired to create some “Dr. Seuss meets Jurassic Park” figurines. And we think they are just…

The Secret Connection between Dr. Seuss and E.T.

We know lots of little details about Steven Spielberg’s E.T.’s (like the fact that E.T. the creature is neither male or female). But we never knew about the connection between E.T. and Dr. Seuss — until we got a glimpse of this vintage concept art. https://gizmodo.com/weird-facts-that-you-didnt-know-about-e-t-the-extra-t-5950664 Designer Ralph McQuarrie was responsible for creating the bulbous…

What if classic children’s books starred comic book characters?

Why didn’t we grow up reading The Very Hungry Galactus or Are you there, God? It’s me, Rogue? Over at Comics Should Be Good, artists are filling in the gaps in our childhood libraries by reimagining classic books with superheroes and villains. Head over to Comics Should Be Good for the works of Fun with…