Tuesday, January 26, 2010

D'oh! But interesting!

How I Invented THE SIMPSONS

The story begins in the late 1970's, when I began writing and drawing a comic strip about a real-life St. Louis family that I knew as acquaintances. I turned them, in my strip, into a horrifically dysfunctional group of people, giving them bizarre and vulgar adventures in the rich St. Louis suburbs. The family consisted of a father named Homer, whom I made bald and stupid, a mother with a tall bee-hive hairdo, a spoiled brat son, an unahppy [sic] daughter, and later a baby girl.

As Arsenio would say, Things that make you say, "Hmmmmm."

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