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The newest volume in the Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium is bursting with classic comic stories featuring everyone's favorite family - The Simpsons - and includes a collectible, one-of-a-kind, pullout paper craft of one of Springfield's favorite landmarks.This continuing series of handpicked stories is chock-full, featuring 176 pages of comedic gems in a high quality trade paperback format that includes a pullout paper craft that will allow the reader to recreate the second in a series of Springfield's favorite landmarks.Join the fun as Bart meets his double-crossing doppelgnger, Homer proves there IS cause to be alarmed at the nuclear power plant, Moe and the barflies invent a popular beer-flavored donut, the whole family makes itself busy as bees while trying to make money in the honey business, and Bartman faces his deadliest foe of all .



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Matt Groening

Matt Groening, creator and executive producer of Fox's Emmy Award®-winning series The Simpsons, made television history by bringing animation back to primetime and creating an immortal nuclear family. The Simpsons is the longest running primetime animated series in television history and is currently the longest-running comedy on television, having aired more than 400 episodes. In July 2007, the highly anticipated feature film The Simpsons Movie opened in theaters with worldwide grosses of more than $525 million to date.Originally brought to life in 1987 for The Tracey Ullman Show, The Simpsons was Groening's amazing entry into the television animation world. Previously, he was best-known for his "Life in Hell" cartoon strip, an irreverent portrayal of love, work, school, life and relationships that currently appears in more than 250 newspapers worldwide and in a multitude of books.Groening's other Emmy-Award®-winning creation, Futurama, launched on Fox in March 1999 and ran for five seasons. Last year Fox released the direct-to-DVD full-length original feature Futurama: Bender's Big Score. Three additional films will be released and the entire series with new episodes will air on Comedy Central this year.In 1993, Groening formed Bongo Comics Group, where he serves as publisher of The Simpsons Library of Wisdom, Simpsons Episode Guides, Simpsons Comics, Bart Simpson Comics, Radioactive Man Comics, Simpsons Comics Treasure Trove, the annual Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror, Futurama Comics, more than 36 comic compilations, as well as instant classics including Bart Simpsons Guide to Life, The Simpsons Handbook, and The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album among others!In addition to the many awards bestowed on his creations (including Emmys, Annies, and the prestigious Peabody Award) , Groening was personally honored with the Rueben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, the highest honor presented by the National Cartoonist Society. To date there are more than 14 million copies of books from HarperCollins in print throughout North America, the UK, and Australia based on The Simpsons, Futurama, and Life in Hell.



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