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.
Dumb Abe retells a story but it’s all sitcom episodes - Leave It to Beaver, The Brady Bunch, Partridge Family and other shows I don’t think the average reader would get… unless they grew up with syndicated TV. Luke Perry is also a character along side Jason Priestley, Tori Spelling and Lisa Marie… Zsa Zsa Gabor.
The height is when they reference The Simpsons as a current day sitcom.
The other stories are a Krusty paper plane advert, and an olden time Itchy and Scratchy with a Betty Boop character.