My experience exactly. I could have talked Simpsons but all I wanted to do was thank him for LIH.

I often refer to Matt as my favorite philosopher. "If you keep your expectations tiny, you'll go through life without being so whiny." There is deep truth in that.

I was lucky enough to meet Matt Groening and tell him how much Life In Hell meant to me and I asked him why it was never on the web & he said he was on to doing other things. I still have all the little paper books, but there's only one thing to say about a comprehensive bound edition a la Far Side or Calvin & Hobbes:…