The Post's Cavna on Disenchantment.

Matt Groening's 'Disenchantment' gets a smart start. Just don't expect 'The Simpsons.'

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post Comic Riffs  blog August 17 2018 

[also in print as Gathering the knights of Groening’s roundtable, Washington Post August 18, 2018, p. C1, 4 and A fantasy to indulge in, Express, August 20 2018, p. 19]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/08/16/matt-groenings-disenchantment-gets-a-smart-start-just-dont-expect-the-simpsons/

How do you deal with a problem like Apu?

He loved 'The Simpsons.' But Hari Kondabolu has a problem with Apu. [in print as Apu and cultural inappropriation].

By Lavanya Ramanathan

Washington Post November 12 2017, P. E1, 18.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/he-loved-the-simpsons-but-hari-kondabolu-has-a-problem-with-apu/2017/11/08/b37c2426-bdac-11e7-8444-a0d4f04b89eb_story.html

Hank Steuver on The Simpsons new app

More 'Simpsons' than you can ever watch 

[in print as A 'Simpsons' app: Dreaming the impossible, July 23, p. C1, 5]

By Hank Stuever July 22 2014

FXX is launching "Simpsons World," a new way of getting on demand "Simpsons" content, in October. Credit: Fox

A flea market miscellany

Here's some of the oddball stuff I picked up last weekend:



Bull of the Woods by J.R. Williams cartoon desk blotter / calendar from Vogt Roller Co, Chicago, IL in March 1953.



Bill Clinton superhero caricature on an Inauguration '93 button.

 
 
A counterfeit Bart Simpson saying "I belong to The Johns Hopkins Health Plan. Why In The Hell Don't You!" on an advertising button.



Nutty Awards #4 postcard by Jack Davis.  Topps produced 30 of these in 1965.

Groening interview on Baltimore exhibit

Matt Groening leaves his mark on Baltimore
'Simpsons' creator co-curates AVAM exhibit
by Edward Gunts, The Baltimore Sun November 14, 2010

Monkey See blog on Simpsons

Since I've arbitrarily decided that Linda Holmes lives around here -

'The Simpsons' Tries To Get Its Edge Back With A (Kind Of) Daring Opening
by Linda Holmes
National Public Radio's Monkey See blog October 12, 2010

Homer Simpson in Parade Magazine insert in today's Post

Homer's 6 Best Grilling Tips

Parade Magazine  05/23/2010
http://www.parade.com/food/2010/05/23-homer-simpson-grilling-tips.html

Illustration by Julius Preite

Post on Simpson's anniversary

Fox anniversary special salutes 20 years of 'The Simpsons'
By Jen Chaney
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 10, 2010; E04

Post reviews Simpsons unauthorized history

Doh! The joke's on us.
Louis Bayard
Washington Post Sunday, November 8, 2009

Syndicated Simpsons moved to late night, reports DCist

WTTG-FOX 5 is moving them from 7 pm to 11:30 says the DCist blog.

Simpsons profile on Express website

This wasn't in the hardcopy paper today - Worst. Retrospective. Ever: Comic Book Guy's Top 7 'Simpsons' Appearances, Written by Express contributor Meg Zamula, August 18 2009.

July 18: Simpsons at Postal Museum

The Post is reporting that the first 1000 visitors to the Postal Museum tomorrow will get a Simpsons First Day Cover. The Museum's near Union Station.

Post on Up, Times on Simpsons

Cannes opened for the first time with an animated movie - "Thanks to Pixar, a Cannes Launch Most Uplifting," By Ann Hornaday, Washington Post Staff Writer, Thursday, May 14, 2009.

And apparently the Simpsons channeled Ayn Rand - "Hot Button: Maggie goes Roark," By Amanda Carpenter, Washington Times Thursday, May 14, 2009.

Groening and Simpsons in the Onion

Groening and Simpsons are in the paper Onion, but the online versions are longer - see "In a way, they're all winners: 10 Simpsons episodes from the past 5 seasons that stand among the series' best." by Genevieve Koski, Kyle Ryan, and Steve Heisler, Onion AV Club March 23, 2009 and an excellent interview, "Matt Groening," by Kyle Ryan, Onion AV Club March 25, 2009.

In the Examiner, Comic Art Indigene was selected as the Best Gallery Show of the weekend.

Another MacHomer article

"The Bard and Bart Simpson: A Natural Pairing?," By Celia Wren, Washington Post Sunday, October 12, 2008; M03.

MacHomer Post review

See "Double, Double Toil and D'oh!," By Nelson Pressley, Washington Post Friday, October 10, 2008; C05.

MacHomer featured in Express

See "Springfield Play: When 'Macbeth' meets 'The Simpsons,' it's lay on Duff Beer!," by Express contributor Dan Miller, Express October 9, 2008. If anyone gets to see this, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

The paper also had a wire-service story about bicyclist Lance Armstrong appearing on the children's animated show, Arthur which airs on PBS. Arthur is one of the better educational cartoons.

Oct 8-12: MacHomer at Woolly Mammoth

MacHomer, the one man show by Rick Miller that smashes together Shakespeare and the Simpsons will be in Washington on Oct 8-12, at Woolly Mammoth. A review by Nick Green is in the Washington City Paper October 1, 2008.

Comics in the World photographs - Rehoboth Beach, Deleware

I've got a folder on my harddrive labeled "Comics in the World" where I've shot pics of comics-related items in the wider world. Here's a selection from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.


Louie's Pizza interpreted a Mad magazine cover from June 1976 for decoration.



Disney's Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland on a car hood.


Dr. Seuss prints on sale in a gallery. Supposedly signed, they weren't. I'm sure these were printed after his death.





Simpson's Kooky Carnival pinball game.

Wash Post on Simpsons

One great thing about the Post, and sadly few other American newspapers, is that they're still staffing foreign bureaus. Yesterday they ran their own original reporting on the Simpsons evolving foreign policy crisis - "D'oh! 'Simpsons' Again Angers South Americans," By Monte Reel, Washington Post Foreign Service, Thursday, April 17, 2008; A18.

Later in the day, they ran this wire service report on their website -
"`The Simpsons' return on Venezuela television," The Associated Press, Thursday, April 17, 2008.