CNN: I feel like Comic Book Guy talking to Jack Kirby -- or perhaps Jack Davis. Matt Groening: (huge laugh) Well, I've met both of them -- Jack Kirby and Jack Davis! They're both heroes of mine.

Life in Hell was Matt Groening's comic strip precursor to The Simpsons ... collecting them into books and putting characters on mugs, Life in Hell has always existed as a kind of footnote to ...

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Matt Groening: I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, “Life in Hell,” for ... If you use certain words that can only be gotten by reading a book or two, that somehow enrages a certain ...

Sometimes the best concept for an intellectual property starts out as a throwaway idea, and this is exactly how The Simpsons came to be in 1987 when series creator Matt Groening didn't want to ...