Today is Dr. Seuss’s birthday!. Happy Birthday to the man who brought so much joy to all of our lives. I wanted to bring you a few interesting facts about the man.

• His father was a master brewer that had to shut his brewery down at the start of the Prohibition.
• When the brewery closed down, his father ran a zoo which became a huge inspiration for him.
• He attended Dartmouth from 1921-1925 and wrote for the humor magazine the Jack-O-Lantern.
• He was eventually banned from the Jack-O-Lantern for drinking.
• He was also voted “Least likely to succeed” while at Dartmouth.
• The college eventually gave him an honoree doctorate.
• He had signed an advertising contract that prohibited him from writing anything other than children’s books.
• The Pocketbook of Boners was his first book. A boner was a silly error, so this was a book about things that went wrong.
• He would write for 8 hours a day.
• In WW2, he enlisted and began writing the propaganda cartoon called the Military Misadventures of Private SNAFU (Situation Normal, All F***ed Up).
• When Seuss was in Japan he was inspired to write Horton Hears a Who! In 1954 he published the book, and dedicated it to Mitsugi Nakamura who at the time was the Dean of Doshisha University in the city of Kyoto who helped Seuss while he toured schools interviewing children.
• Dr. Seuss’s phone number was one digit different from a local fish store and he would occasionally send the wrong caller drawings of the fish instead of giving them the right number.
• The word nerd was invented by Seuss and it was in his book if I Ran the Zoo which was published in 1950
• Shakespeare isn’t the only one who can come up with a word. In the book If I Ran the Zoo, Seuss created the word “nerd.”
• He had a personalized license plate that read “GRINCH”
• He discovered and edited the Berenstain Bears books.
• He was said to push the bears author to connect more with his characters by asking questions such as “What kind of pipe tobacco does Papa Bear smoke?”

Now that you learned more about this crazy author, check out this comic inspired by Dr. Seuss’s art style. Tobias and the Shifty Salesman. Don’t forget to leave a review for this great comic!