Comments on: Simpsons history recalled

By: VTvid

VTvid — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:08:51 +0000

Check out the sights and sounds of the Simpsons celebrating in the real-life Springfield that won the right to call it the hometown of the Simpsons in July 2007. Click on my name above.

By: Stuart Moore

Stuart Moore — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:20:34 +0000

I first read about LIFE IN HELL in a Comics Journal review, twenty-plus years ago. I bought the self-published, large-format WORK IS HELL at St. Mark’s Comics late one night, after being out at a club. I had to stop reading it on the subway at 2 AM because I was laughing too hard. To this day, I can’t look at a flat pink eraser without wanting to stick pushpins in it to make a little pig. “Ask not for whom the overhead fluorescent lighting hums…”

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » July 12, 2007: Mad science with the Smurfs

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:41:33 +0000

[...] “I pleaded with Matt [Groening] and advised him strongly from my elder-statesman position to not work with Fox. ‘Whatever you do, don’t work with those guys! They’re gangsters! They’re gonna take your rights away!’ He’s never let me forget it.” – Art Spiegelman [...]

By: V. Smith

V. Smith — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:03:44 +0000

The Simpsons has come a looooooong way, especially with the animation. I just hope the movie’s good.

By: michael

michael — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:48:29 +0000

cool article, thanks H.! ;)

By: Ku

Ku — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:54:44 +0000

Springfield, VT has a nuclear plant nearby, I think that clinched it.

By: Primate

Primate — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:30:16 +0000

Nope. No way, Bill. Oregon demands a recount. This is Groening’s home turf, after all!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:01:14 +0000

School is Hell brought my years of pursuing valedictorianship to a screeching halt and is largely to blame for my decision to drop out of engineering school and go become a writer (I blame everyone but me).

And Springfield is in Kentucky, as everyone but the damn Kentuckians knows. Stupid internet polls.

By: Torsten Adair

Torsten Adair — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:04:43 +0000

Lessee… I started reading his comic when I saw it at my local Waldenbooks, where I also would buy my comics. That’s also how I discovered Bloom County. As an impressionable teenager, I memorized bits and pieces from each book, just as memorized the best of Chuck Jones and Tex Avery. Then I found out he was on the Tracy Ullman Show, so I videotaped the show to filter out the shorts. Then I became a fan of the show itself. (best skit: The Lion Sleeps Tonight) All because of a one-eared rabbit named Bongo. I hope the movie brings more attention to Life Is Hell. That strip is genius, and who knows, maybe someday soon we’ll be able to walk into a Burger King retrofitted into Akbar And Jeff’s Tofu Hut!