Did You Know Matt Groening Illustrated for Apple?
June 11th, 2011
Well this is pretty cool. Before Matt Groening had his Sunday night Fox TV shows under his belt, he needed a side job to pay the bills. He paired up with Apple to make a student’s guide titled “Who Needs a Computer Anyway.” The book looked at different types of students and was more of a comic book than anything that could actually sell a computer from what I see.
The book is from 1989, and featured characters from Groening’s Life in Hell, along with some custom creations. One glance at it and you can see with a few tweaks some of the characters look a lot like characters we know from The Simpsons. Take the cover art on the book; that is so Moe with a taller head and no hair.
The character on “The Clueless” page looks a lot like Barney to me with the burp face and all.
“The Schizoid” reminds me of Lisa, and I am sure we can find resemblance to other characters throughout the book.
Who do you think “The Technoid” is modeled after?
[via Reddit via TNW via Gizmodo]
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