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Matt Groening: Life Is Swell

The possible Nobel laureate on his dreams, his alt-weekly past and, oh yeah, The Simpsons Movie

“Wow,” says Groening. “Yeah, I have an older sister, Patty, who was a beatnik, or hung out with what I considered beatniks. I remember, as a little kid in the early ’60s, going over to one of her friends’ houses, and the guy was an artist who had a mannequin’s leg sticking out of the wall. For me, that was my introduction to the avant-garde.”

“Just plastered in place?”

Illustration by Matt Groening The Simpsons ™ and © 2007 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Mmmm . . . movie promotional tie-ins are sprinklicious. (Photo by Michelle Ngo)
Mmmm . . . movie promotional tie-ins are sprinklicious. (Photo by Michelle Ngo)

“Yeah. It was like an art piece. This was like, 1962. Imagine Theodore Cleaver, from Leave It to Beaver, going over to somebody’s house and seeing a mannequin’s leg. It would be . . . well, first of all, it would be an entire episode. And, for me, it was, you know, the rest of my life.”

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