Dr. Seuss

For some reason, the Grinch is getting another movie—this time in CG

After the rage-inducing financial success of The Lorax, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures is apparently on a mission to ensure that Dr. Seuss’ most popular books all know the touch of CG. The next Seussian project on their slate is another remake of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Mr. Grinch’s expression up there says it…

Movies Lauren Davis Feb 9

If Dr. Seuss books were titled according to their subtext

That is to say: If Dr. Seuss books were titled like academic journal articles, they’d probably look a lot like this. They’d also never get read. Sort of like academic journal articles. Somebody should tell these esoteric-lipped academics about the Up-Goer Five Text Editor. What is the Up Goer Five Text Editor, you ask? See…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 17

A Seussian adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Tomb” for beginning readers

Want to introduce your early reader to the cosmic horrors of H.P. Lovecraft? Thanks to R.J. Ivankovic (DrFaustusAu)’s interpretation of Lovecraft’s “The Tomb” in the style of Dr. Seuss, it’s never too early for children to learn about insanity, hedonism, forbidden knowledge, and an overwhelming obsession with death. We’ve already seen the always wonderful DrFaustusAu…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 29

The extraordinarily surreal World War II editorial cartoons of Dr. Seuss

For those of you who grew up with such classics as Green Eggs and Ham and Horton Hears A Who, these World War II editorial cartoons by Theodor Geisel may take you by surprise. This wasn’t a dalliance for Seuss either — the illustrator was a prolific newspaper contributor during the early 1940s. One does…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar May 30

B-list Star Wars characters get Seussified

The always wonderful DrFaustusAU is back to his Dr. Seussian hijinks, this time giving some of Star Wars’ less celebrated character the limelight and a little rhyme. DrFaustusAU has worked magic with Seussian renditions of Batman villains and The Call of Cthulhu. He also drew our movie posters of terrible (and terribly inspired) Dr. Seuss…

io9 Lauren Davis May 26

Yertle the Turtle banned from Canadian classroom for being too political

Yertle the Turtle quotes were banned from the classroom in a small British Columbia town, after the Seussian character’s words were used in protest by the teachers union. The National Post reports that a first-grade teacher at British Columbia’s Prince Rupert elementary school could face disciplinary action for displaying the following Dr. Seuss quote from…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner Apr 26

The Cat in the Hat comes back to the big screen, this time in CG

What do you do when your Dr. Seuss adaptation makes a ton of dough at the box office? Make another one! Universal is wasting no time in lining up the next big-screen Seussfest, but this time they’re going with a property they’ve already demolished: The Cat and the Hat. That’s right, the very same book…

Movies Lauren Davis Mar 18

That One Time Dr. Seuss Published A Book Full Of Naked Ladies

Today is both Dr. Seuss’ birthday (he would’ve been 108) and the release date of a rather lamentable adaptation of The Lorax (which is subliminally brainwashing your children). But did you know that in 1939, Dr. Seuss published a book that would’ve spurred an equally dunderheaded moral panic if it came out today? That book…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Mar 2

The Lorax: A Movie Whose Heart is 9 Sizes Too Small

The Lorax is everything it claims to be against. It’s plastic. It’s fake. It’s utterly disposable. It has no love in its heart for nature, or for anything else. They took one of Dr. Seuss’ most famous books and turned it into a dull comedy, full of tedious pop-culture in-jokes and bland songs. Interspersed with…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 2

Posters That Prove Dr. Seuss Movies Could Always Get Worse

Hollywood’s latest Dr. Seuss movie adaptation, The Lorax, has been accused of brain washing our kids against capitalism and later put the Lorax himself to work peddling SUVs. Hollywood didn’t just miss the point of The Lorax, they lit his mustache on fire just to watch the yellow fellow burn. Then again, it’s kind of…

Movies Meredith Woerner Feb 29

Dr. Seuss taxidermy is equal parts disturbing and charming

Sculptor Carl Turner has created a series of half-realistic, half-fantastical mounted animal heads that were seemingly poached out of a Dr. Seuss book. According to Turner’s back story for this project, these extinct specimens were acquired by zoologist Erasmus P. Jiggins and Sir Bartholomew Scoffer during an 1863 expedition to a lost island somewhere in…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 13

8 clips from The Lorax make us sad, but not for the trees

These eight clips from the mangled Dr. Seuss Lorax translation fill us with so many emotions. On one hand, it’s gorgeous. The Truffula Tree forrest is simply stunning, and the Humming Fish are supremely adorable. But that is where it stops. The plot moves forward, and we get to meet the Once-ler’s extended family (faces…

Movies Meredith Woerner Feb 7

Dr. Seuss would and could take over Arkham Asylum

DeviantART user DrFaustusAU knocked our foxy socks off with his Seussian takes on The Call of Cthulhu. Now he’s experimenting with Green Eggs and Batman, rendering the residents of Gotham as Dr. Seuss might have. https://gizmodo.com/what-if-dr-seuss-wrote-the-call-of-cthulhu-updated-5847879 Here’s hoping DrFaustusAU comes up with a longer rhyming Batman story as he’s been doing for The Call of…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 7

The Lorax trailer! What the hell was that?

We were optimistic when the first trailer for The Lorax popped up (what with the heartstring yanking tunes from The Polyphonic Spree and the decidedly Seussian village). But the latest trailer is simply the last straw. This longer look at the adapted classic has “lifted away” any sort of morality or mood from the original…

io9 Meredith Woerner Dec 7

What if Dr. Seuss wrote The Call of Cthulhu? (UPDATED)

Sanity-destroying cosmic horror can be hard to wrap your head around, so Deviant Artist DrFaustusAu has begun rejiggering H.P. Lovecraft’s classic short story as Dr. Seuss book. Now, children of all ages can learn about he who slumbers in his house at R’lyeh. It’s kookily impressive, and we’re jazzed to see the artist’s further work…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 27

First trailer for The Lorax brings the beautiful world of Dr. Seuss to life!

Check out the first ever trailer for Dr. Seuss’ preservationist story, The Lorax. Already you can see how the movie has taken a lot of liberties with the original story, but one thing remains intact — The Lorax himself, who is voiced by Danny DeVito. He speaks for the trees! If you’re not familiar with…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Oct 27

First look at Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax: the movie

Behold your very first look at the CG-animated whiskers of Dr. Seuss’ Lorax, the curmudgeonly creature who speaks for the trees. Plus, it turns out the Lorax will be voiced by Danny DeVito! USA Today has the first-ever glimpse of The Lorax, which is being made by the same people who made Horton Hears a…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 25

Superheroes Meet Dr. Seuss in Mashup Covers

Ryan Dunlavey, the illustrator behind those wonderful comic book/comic strip mashups, has added a dash of Dr. Seuss to classic superheroes. Now someone needs to start writing comic books entirely in trisyllabic meter. https://gizmodo.com/peanuts-meets-x-men-calvin-and-hobbes-meets-spider-man-5389115 [Ryan Dunlavey via Forbidden Planet]

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Dec 29

What Computers Read to Their Kids, Dr. Seuss Style

I do not want 3 Megs of Ram! I do not want them, Sam I am! I want this shirt, it’s 20 dollars, I want the boys to gimme hollers. It’s four bucks more for a woman’s fit, But Sam, I don’t really give a shit— Cause when I wear it I’ll be geeky cute,…

Tech News Andi Wang Feb 5

For some reason, the Grinch is getting another movie—this time in CG

If Dr. Seuss books were titled according to their subtext

A Seussian adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Tomb” for beginning readers

The extraordinarily surreal World War II editorial cartoons of Dr. Seuss

B-list Star Wars characters get Seussified

Yertle the Turtle banned from Canadian classroom for being too political

The Cat in the Hat comes back to the big screen, this time in CG

That One Time Dr. Seuss Published A Book Full Of Naked Ladies

The Lorax: A Movie Whose Heart is 9 Sizes Too Small

Posters That Prove Dr. Seuss Movies Could Always Get Worse

Dr. Seuss taxidermy is equal parts disturbing and charming

8 clips from The Lorax make us sad, but not for the trees

Dr. Seuss would and could take over Arkham Asylum

The Lorax trailer! What the hell was that?

What if Dr. Seuss wrote The Call of Cthulhu? (UPDATED)

First trailer for The Lorax brings the beautiful world of Dr. Seuss to life!

First look at Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax: the movie

Superheroes Meet Dr. Seuss in Mashup Covers

What Computers Read to Their Kids, Dr. Seuss Style

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