He wrote the holiday classic “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” in 1957 ... drawing an outline on the front side and color blocks on the backside. These cels were then placed over a background ...

I don’t know where I went wrong raising my kids, but for some reason they prefer the 2018 digitally animated The Grinch to the original 1966 hand drawn version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!