19. DR SEUSS: You know you’re in love
Dr Seuss was the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991), a children’s book author and illustrator famous for The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and many more classics. This is hard to admit, but I don’t think I’ve ever read any of his books. I mean, I can remember reading Spot, Tintin, Asterix, Grug and Where the Wild Things Are, but none of the Dr Seuss books. Does anyone know where this quote is from? One of his books or did he say it in an interview? Either way, it’s pretty beautiful.
- Thanks to my friend and regular reader, Minnie, for submitting this quote. It’s timely, because I’m actually back home in Perth this weekend to attend her wedding. Congrats Minnie, I hope your love is so strong you never fall asleep ever again. Muah ha ha ha!
- This piece was inspired (that’s a euphemism for ‘this piece was blatantly a rip-off of’) the work of Luca Barcellona, who is a ridiculously talented calligraphy artist. Where he uses an exquisite brush stroke, I cheated and used a pen to draw shapes that looked like brush strokes. *cough* HACK *cough*
- You can view a smaller version of my piece as a whole here.
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You’re a Perth boy, Gav? Loving your new site by the way – the art is superb and I’m loving your humour still coming through like BWBB and D&P – just much more mature (well, maybe not the humour…)
Alex! – where hav u been mate? yes, i’m from perth – been in melbourne for 5 years.
I’ve been in Perth 5 years. Coincidence? To be honest, as I knew you were in Melbourne I just assumed you were from Melbourne. Or at least Vic.
I’ve also been insanely busy – but keeping an eye on the site nevertheless and thoroughly impressed.
No wonder I can’t sleep.
I sleep really well with my wife now, but for the first few weeks we started going out together, I suffered severe sleep deprivation. So the quote and the illustration sounds very true to me.
Reality is still extremely good these days, but when you have 3 young kids, you need all the sleep you can get, there is no other choice unfortunately.
Love is all you need. Great work Gav!
man i fell in love today and look now i’m seeing this ; neat
Love your work.
This is a good one Gavin. Great Quote and Great Art. I have always been a big fan of typography. Though I bet the doctor didn’t have this image in mind for the quote.
Also, like you, a big fan of Asterix and Tin Tin. Had to ‘Google’ Grug though, never heard of the that one. Bit after my time apparently.
Thanks David – yeah Grug isn’t as popular as the others
Oh, and that reply was from me! Stupid Gravatar not signing in…
cool don’t be a stranger
Simply wonderful! Came across your site through facebook and I am just in awe of your work and how your cartoons convey the message much more effectively!
OH WOW! I AM IN LOVE!
Amazing skills! are you going to comic con this year?, would love to greet you there and buy some art from you. Keep the amazing work, the essence of this website is so refreshing, I secretly print and post your art on the message board at work in the lunch room to watch the people’s reaction and all the folks love it!!
As a life-long comic fanboy, it’s my dream to go to comic-con. Maybe next year
LOVE THIS! Beautiful typography!!
Oh my goodness, get and read some Dr. Seuss immediately. Virtually every American kid gets several Seuss books as presents, and they’re brilliant, thoroughly truly brilliant. An American original, and one I’m proud to claim.
Love this!
You pick a nice font type and color! love it!
Love your site – but sadly this doesn’t seem to be an actual Dr. Seuss quote. I can’t find a source for it anywhere.
Dr. Seuss is brilliant, target age group is about 3-10. The books rhyme, they use silly verse and drawings, and many use made-up words. For his early reader books (eg One Fish Two Fish) he said that he kept the vocabulary small and repeated the same words to create familiarity. He also tackled larger social themes in this very light format, particularly respect for all living things and pursuing your dreams. The book The Sneetches gives you a little of everything, a purely silly rhyme (Too Many Daves) mixed with a story (Sneetches) about a stratified community (some have stars and some don’t, a WWII reference that I didn’t understand for years) and a guy who comes to their small community and profits from their prejudice, a story about fear and prejudging (Empty Pants) and a story about stubbornness and the futility of trying to resist change (Zax). Most people in the US know The Grinch Who Stole Christmas because it was made into an animated TV cartoon and has been aired every Christmas since the 1960s. He has tons of good quotes.
Also check out Shel Silverstein if you don’t know his work.
Thanks for filling me in Cassandra
You know your stuff! I’ll have to do more research into this amazing man.
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is my favorite book by Dr. Seuss. Give it a look if you want to read some Seuss.
I read that recently – so good. Wish I found it 15 years ago!
I spend at least half an hour on each of your posts, maybe even more. I feel like I should be flipping through comics but I just can’t. You’ve obviously done the research behind the quotes and I feel like I have to dig even further, just to appreciate them! Absolutely love your art and interpretation. Thank you very much.
P.S Do you know Terry Dean?
Dr seuss didn’t write tintin it was herge
amazing man!
Dr. Suess was a smart man. He called it like he saw it. When I started dating my boyfriend of three years, it was really hard for me to sleep. I had to take sleeping pills because I could not stop thinking. I sleep very well with him now finally!
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Mate, that’s awesome. I love the art style, which you did tribute to, not ripped off
The lady’s long sweeping hair is particularly romantic, rather like the quote you based it on. Beautiful.
It’s relieving to hear I’m not the only one who has trouble sleeping with my partner! I must admit though, it’s partially out of the extra stimuli of another person in the bed, rather than the head-over-heels infatuation that might keep others up
Did you finally figure out from what of Dr. Seuss book is this quote?? Can someone help?
thank you
I love ornamental writing. It’s a shame that penmanship as a skill seems to have been deteriorating for hundreds of years now but I wouldn’t call you a hack for drawing the shapes :p.
As a side note, I picked up drawing a while ago and it inspired me to fix my writing. Here’s the book I used http://archive.org/details/theorypracticeof00jackrich