TONIGHT! Moore, Spiegelman and Clowes on the Simpsons!
After many baseball induced delays, the long-awaited episode of the Simpsons starring comics luminaries is to air tonight, Flog reports:
Finally! This Sunday night (8PM/7C) is the long-awaited airing of The Simpsons episode featuring Daniel Clowes, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore and Jack Black. Reportedly, the episode finds Jack Black’s character opening “Coolsville,” a hipster comic shop that threatens the Comic Book Guy and Android’s Dungeon.
We’ll be making a special TV-themed evening of it.
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11/18/07 at 9:53 pm
Three cheers for Tintin’s amazing adventure, Batman’s utility-money-belt, Alan Moore’s run on Radioactive Man, and Maus being in the house!
And Little Lulu.
11/18/07 at 10:31 pm
I need the two disc DVD of Watchmen Babies in V for Vacation - with special commentaty by Alan Moore!
11/19/07 at 12:40 am
“Quick! To the cash bar!”
Truer words were never spoken.
11/19/07 at 5:39 am
Dang it, i missed it. Football was on earlier, so i put in Simpson DVDs.
11/19/07 at 6:47 am
I’d forgotten this was coming! Tuned in last night, and laughed my head off. Then it occured to me: never mind about comics getting literary awards, or graphic novels reshaping Hollywood, or big features in the NYTimes — this episode of the Simpsons might be the real turning point that puts the graphic novel into the American household. You’re on the Simpsons, you’ve arrived…!
11/19/07 at 7:20 am
Great first half, good middle, sloppy end. Just like college.
The comic book shop stuff was hilarious and I’m sorry they dropped that plotline a third of the way in.
11/19/07 at 9:18 am
“…but what I really want to do is draw Batman!”
Between that and the Watchmen Babies gag, the whole comic shop bit was brilliant.
11/19/07 at 9:36 am
[…] Over at The Beat, Mark Siegel writes: I’d forgotten this was coming! Tuned in last night, and laughed my head off. Then it occured to me: never mind about comics getting literary awards, or graphic novels reshaping Hollywood, or big features in the NYTimes — this episode of the Simpsons might be the real turning point that puts the graphic novel into the American household. You’re on the Simpsons, you’ve arrived…! […]
11/19/07 at 10:29 am
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder than I did at that “Watchmen Babies” gag….it was just so out of left field and unexpected on a network TV show. And I didn’t know whether to laugh or be horribly appalled by the “Maus is in the house!” gag. =^p
11/19/07 at 11:01 am
“And I didn’t know whether to laugh or be horribly appalled by the “Maus is in the house!” gag.”
Well Spiegelman obviously found it funny enough to go along with, so I’d say you can laugh safely.
The comic store stuff was the funniest material, but I recognize my bias. I’m guessing the Watchmen Babies joke will fly over the heads of 95% of the viewing audience (until the movie comes out and this episode is in syndicated repeats).
11/19/07 at 11:51 am
How cool was it that this episode aired on Alan Moore’s birthday!?
11/19/07 at 11:54 am
and with a poster of Lost Girls!!
I wonder if Fox ever realised their show was advertising a porn book!
11/19/07 at 4:36 pm
Dammit! I didn’t watch last night and just saw this post today, Monday!
Anyone know when it repeats? Thanks.
11/19/07 at 5:25 pm
that Simpsons was a joy. best one in some time now.
mostly dug Alan Moore kicking butt and that Lost Girls poster they snuck in there.
crafty.
11/19/07 at 6:16 pm
To anyone who missed it, here’s the clip–> http://youtube.com/watch?v=eeVOAOIYt6Y
11/20/07 at 3:28 pm
Thanks Alex, unfortunately, my computers seem to be anti youtube for the moment.
11/23/07 at 11:43 pm
Check out Meltdown Comics’ blog, they are Coolsville and have a link to the episode. www.meltcomics.com/blog
09/4/08 at 12:54 pm
“And I didn’t know whether to laugh or be horribly appalled by the “Maus is in the house!” gag.”
Well Spiegelman obviously found it funny enough to go along with, so I’d say you can laugh safely.
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Go along with it? He came up with it. I quote the show’s writer, Matt Selman…
“Art Spiegleman insisted that his character wear a Maus “mouse” mask when he turns into a superhero. This was not our idea, and if it had been, we would have been too scared to pitch it to Art.”