The biggest Simpsons book ever -- 20 years of episodes packed into one GIANT EPISODE GUIDE! The Simpsons is more than a TV show, it's an institution. In 2010, the show officially celebrates its 20th ANNIVERSARY, and every Simpsons fanatic will want a keepsake book to commemorate the event. Comprising a whopping 1,200 pages of full-colour episode recaps, this book will be a hilarious resource for fans around the world. The most recent Simpsons Episode Guide, The Simpsons One Step Beyond Forever (2005) took readers through season 14, leaving fans with a pent-up appetite for the subsequent years. Besides including all-new pages covering seasons 15-20, Simpsons World will also include updates of the previously-published content, in most instances doubling the number of pages devoted to each episode. (That's more than 600 pages of new and extensively revised material!) Even fans who already have the first four volumes will find fun new art, facts, and jokes added to the first 14 seasons' entries. Besides the incredibly comprehensive and impressive content, this will also be a beautiful book. Packaged in a stunning slip case with a book ribbon for place-holding and lush illustrations throughout, there won't be a Simpsons fan young or old who won't hope to find this title under their Christmas tree. Don't miss some of these cool features - / Who Does What Voice? / Couch Gags / D'ohs / Mmms / Itchy and Scratchy Filmography / Krusty Thy Name is Merchandising / Troy McClure Tribute / Songs Sung Simpson / History of the Opening Sequence
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Matt Groening, creator and executive producer of Fox's Emmy Award®-winning series The Simpsons, made television history by bringing animation back to primetime and creating an immortal nuclear family. The Simpsons is the longest running primetime animated series in television history and is currently the longest-running comedy on television, having aired more than 400 episodes. In July 2007, the highly anticipated feature film The Simpsons Movie opened in theaters with worldwide grosses of more than $525 million to date.
Originally brought to life in 1987 for The Tracey Ullman Show, The Simpsons was Groening's amazing entry into the television animation world. Previously, he was best-known for his "Life in Hell" cartoon strip, an irreverent portrayal of love, work, school, life and relationships that currently appears in more than 250 newspapers worldwide and in a multitude of books.
Groening's other Emmy-Award®-winning creation, Futurama, launched on Fox in March 1999 and ran for five seasons. Last year Fox released the direct-to-DVD full-length original feature Futurama: Bender's Big Score. Three additional films will be released and the entire series with new episodes will air on Comedy Central this year.
In 1993, Groening formed Bongo Comics Group, where he serves as publisher of The Simpsons Library of Wisdom, Simpsons Episode Guides, Simpsons Comics, Bart Simpson Comics, Radioactive Man Comics, Simpsons Comics Treasure Trove, the annual Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror, Futurama Comics, more than 36 comic compilations, as well as instant classics including Bart Simpsons Guide to Life, The Simpsons Handbook, and The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album among others!
In addition to the many awards bestowed on his creations (including Emmys, Annies, and the prestigious Peabody Award), Groening was personally honored with the Rueben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, the highest honor presented by the National Cartoonist Society. To date there are more than 14 million copies of books from HarperCollins in print throughout North America, the UK, and Australia based on The Simpsons, Futurama, and Life in Hell.
