Issue #1: The Simslops
March 16, 2025

Bartholomew Jo-Jo “Bart” Simpson is a fictional character in the American animated television series The Simpsons who is part of the Simpson family. Bart made his television debut in the short “Good Night” on The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987. Cartoonist Matt Groening created and designed Bart while waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks’s office. Initially called to pitch a series of shorts based on his comic strip Life in Hell, Groening developed a new set of characters.1
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Factory literature for factory audiences.
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