The Cat in the Hat (film) The Cat in the Hat (film) The Cat in the Hat (also known as Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat) is a 2003 American fantasy comedy film directed by Bo Welch in his directorial debut and based on Dr. Seuss’s book of the same name. Starring Mike Myers, Dakota Fanning, Spencer Breslin, Alec Baldwin and Kelly Preston, it is the second feature-length Dr. Seuss adaptation after the 2000 film "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". The idea was originally conceived in 2001 with Tim Allen initially cast as the Cat, but he dropped his role due to work on "The
Alias the Cat! "Alias" was published as a three-issue series of comics, called "The Stuff of Dreams", published by Fantagraphics Books in 2002. It was collected by Pantheon Books in hardcover form in 2007. When serialized as "The Stuff of Dreams", the story won the Eisner Award for Best Single Issue or One-Shot in 2003. Greg McEllhatton called "Alias the Cat!" one of the stronger pieces of metafiction he'd seen in comics. Alias the Cat! Alias the Cat is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Kim Deitch, published by Pantheon Books in 2007. It originally appeared as a three-issue comic book in 2002