Showing posts with label Matt Groening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matt Groening. Show all posts
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Matt Groening Meets Apple
Any fan of The Simpsons should suspect the show's creator Matt Groening has a love of Apple Computers: in the episode "Bart Gets Hit by a Car", the devil is revealed using a Mac to run operations in hell. It turns out that Groening wasn't only a fan of Steve Jobs' company: in 1989, he was hired by Apple to provide artwork for a Macintosh brochure. It featured characters from his Life in Hell weekly comic strip, and came out less than a year before The Simpsons became a cultural madness. The brochure is a nice little bit of cultural history (kind of like seeing The Beatles perform in 1962) and gives some good tips on how to use a Mac. To see the whole brochure visit Comics Alliance:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/06/13/matt-groening-apple-macintosh-brochure-cartoon/
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