Tag: The Simpsons
We all know that Lisa Simpson is smart, and Edna Crabapple’s a teacher so maybe she’s intelligent too, but when it comes to the likelihood of them publishing peer-reviewed academic papers there’s at least one catch: Lisa and Mrs. Crabapple are both fictional characters on The Simpsons. Two academic journals didn’t seem to notice that […]
Thanks to Academy Award-nominated animator/filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt, the couch gag of last night’s season premiere of “The Simpsons” was a small, brilliant opus. The Simpson family travelled far into the future where Lisa and Bart’s forms became reminiscent of the aliens in Hertzfeldt’s Meaning Of Life. A cloud-creature made an appearance; its anus was not bleeding. The sequence then transitioned into splatters […]
Bartkira — a crowd-sourced reimagining of Katsuhiro Otomo’s “Akira” with the characters from Matt Groening’s The Simpsons — has reached its next stage of evolution. A year ago, it popped up as an ingeniously wacky Tumblr project by James Harvey and Ryan Humphrey. Since then, the project has exploded both online and IRL, with over 500 participating artists and recently, the project was shown at […]
Earlier, artists James Harvey and Ryan Humphrey challenged the internet with an epic proposal: Retell Otomo Katsuhiro’s manga cult classic Akira in its entirety, using only characters from The Simpsons. So far, Bartkira has basically blown up on Tumblr with diverse and creative submissions. Harvey has already recruited 768 people to create 6 pages each […]
