Bart Simpson Blastoff

by Matt Groening

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening’s latest Bart Simpson full-color comics collection. Countdown to laughter. . . . Bart Simpson will send you over the moon with high-octane hilarity as he leads the Springfield Elementary team to the state eating competition, does his best not to embarrass Marge on Mother’s Day, learns a Kwik-E life lesson from Apu, gets a little bedtime assistance from Maggie, bonds with Grampa over a junky jalopy, and foils Mr. Burns’ plan to sidestep Springfield’s child labor laws. Then, Lisa gets some surprising competition as she squares off against Bart in a contest to win a prized pony, teenagers Homer and Barney encounter zombies, and much, much more! It’s a supersonic, supercharged, Bart Simpson shebang!

Genres: Humor, Graphic Novels, Comics

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 7, 2015

About the author

Matthew Abram Groening is an American cartoonist, television producer and writer from Portland, Oregon.

Groening is best known as the creator of The Simpsons. He is also the creator of Futurama and the author of the weekly comic strip Life in Hell. Groening distributed Life in Hell in the book corner of Licorice Pizza, a record store in which he worked.

He made his first professional cartoon sale to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978. The cartoon is still carried in 250 weekly newspapers.

Reviews

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like most of the Simpsons graphic novels, they are fun and the art in most cases is spot on with the TV show. Sergio Aragones has been doing Simpsons work the past few years and it's a natural match up. At times the graphic novels are even better than the TV shows. If you like the Simpsons I can't see any reason you wouldn't like the graphic novels.

[Shaun · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this at a library fundraiser sale because it was a dollar and I like the Simpsons. It seems as though this Bart Simpson focused series was a spinoff from the main series, and I assume since it focused on the child characters this book was aimed more at younger readers. A little bit odd since the TV show is a little geared more toward a PG-13 type audience. Anyway, the book was decent enough as is, it was interesting seeing some of the short story stuff you wouldn't see in the TV show. That being said, there are like 600 episodes of the TV, I guess I realized there is enough of it out there that I don't really need to be reading a comic of it too? I'd say if you love the Simpsons and have a kid that you want to share that love with but feel like maybe the TV show is still a little too crude for them you might want to start the out on something like this.

[Elizabeth Castro · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the television show, and thought the book probably wouldn't live up to my expectations. The comic version is even better!

[Chrisitina · Rating 5 out of 5]

very funny

[Jacob · Rating 3 out of 5]

Public library copy.

Great in the spirit of the animation cartoons, nice to see Sergio Aragones doing 2 strips.