The Simpsons mastermind and Family Guy crossover co-conspirator Matt Groening is coming to Brooklyn this winter to, hopefully, bestow upon us his infectious smarts.
Joining him in conversation is former college pal and fellow cartoonist Lynda Barry for the Love, Hate & Comics — The Friendship That Would Not Die talk at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Feb. 12.
Groening not only has a lifetime subscription to The Wire magazine, profiteering his best The Simpsons music episodes, he also has and continues to snag a mouthful of actually prominent accolades.
His work as creator and executive producer of The Simpsons garnered him the longest-running scripted show in TV history and the winner of multiple Emmys. The iconic cartoon was voted "Best Show of the 20th Century" by Time magazine and has spawned a generation of faithful Bartman cronies.
As if that was not enough, Groening has a Peabody Award. And multiple Annie Awards. And the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, which is only the highest honor presented by the National Cartoonist Society.
No big deal.
He, of course, also has the Emmy-winning show Futurama and Life in Hell syndicated comic strip under his belt. To wit, he has a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, U.S. postage stamps and his own publishing company, Bongo Entertainment.
Joining him in conversation on the everlasting love of cartoons is Barry, creator of the comic strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek. Fellow geek Barry is the author of One Hundred Demons, The Greatest of Marlys, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, Naked Ladies Naked Ladies Naked Ladies and The Good Times Are Killing Me, which saw an off-Broadway adaptation and won the Washington State Governor’s Award.
Barry snagged an Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Graphic Novel for her Drawn & Quartely What It Is novel.
Prior to the event, her latest work, Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor, also published on Drawn & Quarterly, will be released this fall.
Currently an associate professor in interdisciplinary creativity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Barry’s new book explores the relationship between the hand, the brain and written and visual spontaneous images.
Tickets for the event start at $35, and you can purchase them here.
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