The Simpsons Holiday Humdinger

Simpsons Comics #15, 52, 79

by Matt Groening

Season's Greetings from the Simpsons and creator Matt Groening with an all new collection of Christmas curiosities and winter wonders that'll warm your heart and tickle your fancy. If youᱥ yearning for yuletide yarns for young and old, Matt Groening, the Kris Kringle of comics and the creator of The Simpsons , has the perfect stocking stuffer for you. What winter holiday celebration would be complete sleigh rides, jingle bells, reindeer games, happy little elves, fruit cakes, radioactive Christmas trees, snow mums, defective toys, grimacing Grinches, secretive Santas, miserly Scrooges, and New Year's resolutions you will never keep? So, deck the halls with The Simpsons and be of good cheer with glad tidings of joy that will last through the year!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Christmas, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2004

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

[tony dillard jr · Rating 5 out of 5]

Did you ever have a book that for one reason or another, you didn't read it because you thought you had already read it. Yet, it turns out that nope, you really hadn't?! Well, that's me and The Simpsons Holiday Humdinger.

Because of it's tabloid-size, I kept this book in another part of my collection where I keep books that I've read before. Recently, I've gone on a Simpsons Comics re-reading kick and as I am now into my holiday reads, I figured the time was right to re-read this book. Only, I haven't read this before.

The Simpsons Holiday Humdinger is over 250 pages of the residents of Springfield celebrating the holidays. Which holidays you ask? Seemingly, all of them! We've got Grandpa getting confused and celebrating Christmas in July. Bart converts to Judaism in order to cash in on the 8 nights of presents found in Hanukkah. Doctor Hibbert explains the special meanings behind the 7 days of Kwanzaa. And then we've got lots of Christmas time fun what with Comic Book Guy marking up the prices of the ultra-hot Itchy & Scratchy interactive toys and Lisa & Bart crafting a new holiday special to replace the Happy Little Elves.

I've read the Bart Hanukkah story somewhere before. Either as part of one of Winter Wingdings annuals or maybe a reprint in the monthly series that ran for an impressive 250 issues. I'm thinking that this collection (along with Homer For The Holidays, which I know for sure that I have never read) are treasuries of old Simpsons comics. But there's also a lot of short 1-4 page gags that I'm really not sure about. The art for those look newer and there's never any sort of credits of the writing/drawing team like on the full-length stories.

The Treehouse of Horror treasuries seem to be in this similar vein. They've got reprints along with all-new material. So I may need to get all of the Wingdings even if I do ever manage to get Homer For The Holidays. I guess I'm not really complaining. I don't ever seem to get upset if I buy reprints when it comes to my holiday books.

Sadly, the holiday fun with Bart, Lisa and the rest was over too soon.

[blueygurl2016 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was pretty great. The first few stories Grandpa told were meh but it was pretty funny that he was telling them in August. My favorite part though was Ralph’s story. When they ended up in the doctors’ for Ralph making “Aragorn go after Gollum in a dark hole” which of course ended up being his nose it was hilarious but the funniest part was that Homer was there for the exact same reason and Marge and Ralph’s mom’s expressions to the whole thing were priceless. I also loved Bart “conversion” to Judaism story. It was just so classic Bart and so great. This was a fun holiday reading.

[Matthew]

I'd like to thank The Simpsons Comics for keeping 10 year old me interested in reading and I probably haven't read this one in like 16 years so yeah, The Simpsons, wooo


(but not thank you for lazy racist stereotypes)

[Christine · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5*

[Tapani Aulu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ei Simpsonit kyllä toimi sarjakuvana eikä suomennettuina niin hyvin kuin originaalit. Mutta jotenkin näihin alkaa kuitenkin vähän tykästyäkin.

[Dann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarious holiday fun, The Simpsons: Holiday Humdinger delivers a ton of yuletide laughs. This graphic novel features several holiday tales (Christmas & Chanukah) and Angry Dad shorts from 4 Simpsons comics. Additionally, there are a number of supplements; including ads for Christmas discounts and sales at various businesses, Christmas album covers for several Simpsons music groups (such as The Be Sharps and Lurleen Lumpkin), and holiday guides. The artwork is especially good and features a number of minor characters placed in the backgrounds (which is kind of a treat for long-time Simpsons fans). Also, the comedy is well-written, with some rather clever satire and parodies of classic holiday tales. Making spirits bright, The Simpsons: Holiday Humdinger is a wonderful celebration of the season.

[Johnny D · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this is a great book it's funny it's about the day on Christmas and some stuff or on special they want all kinds of toys they see on tv then they almost crash into another big truck full of toys that they want and they keep some and give some out for free just to be nice that's why I think this book should get 5 stars this is a great book for other people to read and I hope other people like it very much just like I did and give it a rate of 5 stars so this is the book I did for my review I hope other people like it.