The Cat in the Hat been adapted for various media, including theater, television, and film. The animated musical TV special premiered in 1971 and starred Allan Sherman as the Cat. In 2003, a live-action film adaptation was released, starring Mike Myers as the Cat. Boxoffice.com reports that the film grossed $133,960,541 worldwide on an estimated $109 million budget. In 2012, following the financial success of "The Lorax", the animated film adaptation of the Dr. Seuss book of the same name, Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment announced plans to produce a CGI adaptation of "The Cat in the Hat". Rob Lieber was set to write the
Jock (cartoonist) Jock (cartoonist) Mark Simpson, known by the pen name Jock, is a British cartoonist, best known for his work in "2000 AD", "The Losers", and more recently "Batman" and "Wolverine". Jock began his professional career at British comics magazine "2000 AD", on series including "Judge Dredd" and "Lenny Zero", the latter with writer Andy Diggle. It was with Diggle that he got his big break in the American comic book market at DC Comics and their Vertigo imprint, working on "The Losers" and "". Also at Vertigo and with Mike Carey, another former "2000 AD" writer, Jock worked on an