Simpsons Comics Prints Its Final Issue In October
D’oh! Bongo Comics is turning out the lights and calling it quits. The comic publisher, founded by Matt Groening, mainly existed to publish comic books based on his Fox creations — Simpsons and Futurama. Alas, Bongo will not be around to comic-ify Netflix’s Disenchantment. Back in the early 90s when the Simpsons became mega-popular overnight, it seemed like they were everywhere BUT in comic books. Fans like me couldn’t understand what the holdup was, until Groening revealed he’d been saving the rights for his own separate comic book company. The original line of Simpsons Comics first appeared in 1993. Since it was the height of the collector boom, Bongo could afford to launch with a vengeance and blanket the market with separate titles for anything tangentially related to the show: Bartman, Radioactive Man, Itchy and Scratchy…and the main book itself. Soon the speculator market crashed, all those extraneous titles fell away, and Bongo stuck to its solitary “Simpsons Comics” output, with rare deviations. Various citizens of Springfield were given one-shot