Everyone in the room laughed, even little ignorant Lydia, and he felt himself shrink back to size: skinny boy on quaking stool, squawking sidekick to the great man.

NEWYORKER: Or Else

If you'd have told Groening back in 1990 that there would be a long haul, he probably would have laughed.

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