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Anyone who considers themselves to be a pop-culture enthusiast has, at one point, spent some time speculating on the sexual orientation of fictional characters.

Author John Ortved is shown in a handout photo. Matt Groening has long been considered the creative genius behind cartoon phenomenon "The Simpsons" and the wacky denizens of Springfield.

The UIC Forum hosted cartoonists Matt Groening and Lynda Barry last week as part of the 20th annual Chicago Humanities Festival.

It's highly unlikely that anyone picking up Toronto-raised John Ortved's The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History would disagree with that sentiment.

Longtime pals Matt Groening and Lynda Barry participated in a Chicago Humanities Festival event at UIC, which CHF marketing and communications associate director Jara Kern says drew the largest single festival turnout ever.

In its 36th year, it attracts more than 300 entries in all genres. Past judges have included Gus Van Sant and Matt Groening.

The arrivals-line carpet leading into Barker Hangar was yellow -- appropriate, given the night's honorees: Homer, Bart, Lisa, Marge and Maggie Simpson, all on hand to celebrate 20 years of "The Simpsons." Their series is the longest-running American sitcom, the longest-running American animated program, and it recently surpassed "Gunsmoke" as the ...

THE SIMPSONS creator and executive producer Matt Groening and friends arrive on the yellow carpet.

By David Smyth AFTER ten years of ever-growing cult status, the All Tomorrow's Parties festival has become a thrice-yearly UK event, has expanded into the United States and Australia, and is now the comeback destination of choice for all manner of reformed and long-absent bands.

He was already tackling a TV geek's nightmare: the first extensive, behind-the-scenes history of TV's longest-running comedy show, The Simpsons .

Actor Joe Mantegna, who voices Fat Tony, poses at the 20th anniversary party for the television series "The Simpsons" at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, Oct.

The first 75 percent or so of John Ortved's The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History is brisk and engaging and likely to entertain Simpsons die-hards without breaking a sweat.

Alaric Lambert October 19, 2009 3:43 AM EDT SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Forget red. The arrivals-line carpet leading into Barker Hangar was yellow - appropriate, given the night's honorees: Homer, Bart, Lisa, Marge and Maggie Simpson, all on hand to celebrate 20 years of "The Simpsons." Their series is the longest-running American sitcom, the ...

You read the title right, Matt Groening the man behind The Simpsons will be at next year's ATP Festival .

"The Simpsons" is giving one lucky contest winner the chance to make others yellow with envy by creating a character for the animated TV series.

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So a reporter for Vanity Fair sets out to write an oral history of The Simpsons, but gets stonewalled completely by the studio and the producers for asking a question about a producer who was exiled over a decade ago.

Move over, Pavement, you're sharing curating duties with a funnyman. Simpsons and Futurama creator Matt Groening joins the reunited indie rock outfit as curator for the British installment of All Tomorrow's Parties .

In the last week ATP - every indie geek's favourite Butlins-based music festival - announced two seminal 90s acts as the curators of its UK events next May.

As you all have heard, in two days, Marge Simpson will pose nude in Playboy. The first tme she ws naked in front of someone else, nine months later something terrible happened...she had Bart.