The Simpsons are living large and in charge with the most explosive colossal yet!
Bart goes to work on the railroad; Homer stretches the boundaries of his mind and tries to color inside the lines; Lisa feels the good vibrations when Karma-Con comes to town; Grampa Simpson tells it like it is, was, or might have been; Pieman and Bartman take on both friends and foes alike; and to top it off, the Springfield Bear Patrol returns in their final and furriest adventure! And don’t go ballistic while trying to build your very own Herman’s Military Antiques store.
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.
These compendiums usually aren't the best of the comics as they include a lot of the special comics and later issues (which were broken into short 11 page stories). However, if you're a fan of the show and not that into comics this is a good place to start as you're getting a lot of small stories. The Grandpa Simpson choose your own adventure and the story where Homer ends up inside a coloring book are pretty fun.