Thread 149410932

Im starting to think Matt Groening dosn't draw every single piece of art in The Simpsons merchandise

>>149410932 (OP)
He’s basically the Bob Kane of the 90s/2000s.

>>149411458
the who?

>>149410932 (OP)
His best contribution is his name. That'll sell something better than whatever he draws.

>>149410932 (OP)
He doesn't
Simpsons promotional artwork is done by Bill Morrison, who also worked on the comics. I assume contractually he has it so his name is put on there and Morrison and whoever are well aware and ok with it
I doubt most creators also do the promo art because of the sheer amount of art needed but I've heard at least Steve Hillenburg was involved with creation of some SB stock art, there's some scans of him giving feedback on artwork

>>149412972
Most creators don't draw official promo art because most tend to not make polished drawings of their characters for a living, usually just doodles to get their ideas across. I think a handful of EARLY early Simpsons press art came straight from Groening, but majority was def handled by others. Julius Preite did the Marge Playboy feature for example

>>149412645
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Stephen Hillenburg giving feedback for stock SB art

>>149414703
>>149414721
I get a little sad every time I see some of Hillenburg's work. Makes me kind of wish he'd had more of a public presence back when he was still alive, because now all we have are snippets with little context and second-hand accounts from past colleagues of his. One of the most influential artists in human history is more Mystery than Man.

>>149414436
Daaad! It's musical sensation The Who!

>>149414999
>Makes me kind of wish he'd had more of a public presence back when he was still alive, because now all we have are snippets with little context and second-hand accounts from past colleagues of his
Steve was never like Seth MacFarlane or something, never really one to make a big deal of himself. Nothing against Seth in this case, I personally feel larger than life characters like Joe Barbera are more interesting than more reserved guys, but that just wasn't the kind of guy Steve was. He was a quiet man with a dry sense of humor that was loved by pretty much everyone (even outside of the Spongebob crew, Butch Hartman made a very nice video talking about him when he passed away). He actually didn't care much for the merchandising bonanza SB got, there's a story of him saying "Oh brother" or something when he saw a bunch of SB bouncy balls in a dispenser

>>149412972
Simpsons had some cool ass games back in the day

>>149410932 (OP)
Matt Groening's ego must be MASSIVE by now

>>149414999
I love the Spongebob font, is so cute!

>>149413977
Chris Houghton is one of the most multi-talented showrunners working right now, yet no one seems to know his name.

Simpsons Wrestling is one of the few pieces of official Merchandise without Matt's signature on it. Why you might ask? Because Matt saw footage of the game where Maggie gets hit by Groundskeeper Willie's tools. He was so offended by it, that he demanded his name be taken of the game.

>>149415579
Matt Graining is pussy

>>149410932 (OP)
Mike Judge does the exact same thing yet no one gives him shit for it

>>149415579
Is your source on this reliable

>>149414999
Why would it be sad? Stephen was a quiet guy and kept a low profile on his own accord. He got what he wanted.

>>149414999
>One of the most influential artists in human history is more Mystery than Man
This is unironically the best fate you can achieve as an artist. Your art speaks for yourself. People don't have to know about the person behind it. Their appreciation is earnest.

>>149416164
>Your art speaks for yourself. People don't have to know about the person behind it.
tell that to all the lamebrains claiming nickelodeon is "disrespecting" hillenburg's wishes when they do this that or the other with spongebob

>>149415464
Same for Carl Greenblatt. Did we ever get the final version of this promo art he was drawing up at some point? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qntaw6iSkyI

>>149415298
You only realized that JUST NOW??

>>149413977
>>149415464
Jorge Gutierrez is another showrunner who came from a character design background. Is there any official art that's confirmed to have been drawn up by him? I feel like there's gotta be

>>149416092
It’s from An Oral History of ‘The Simpsons: Road Rage’ from inverse.com:

>Amanda Hugginkiss (pseudonym), environment designer and level designer on The Simpsons: Road Rage: From what I heard, the point where Groening took his name off Simpsons Wrestling was when he saw Marge go up against Willie. Marge’s special power in the game was to throw Maggie — which is bad enough — but then you had Willie, who carried a rake in the game. So Groening saw Willie attacking Maggie with a rake, which is definitely not honoring the IP.

>After that, Groening became really hesitant about any Simpsons game and, talking about Road Rage, Groening literally said, “If I don’t like this game, I’m never going to put my name on another Simpsons game again.”

IIRC you can’t actually attack Maggie in the final game which dealing with Marge really annoying, but still not enough to make her good as she’s usually pretty low on any tier list I’ve ever seen

>>149419983
>willie hitting maggie isn't honoring the ip
>turning purple things not purple is ok

>>149418049
Fuggggggggg...

>>149412972
>This Game Pak cannot be used with the Mattel or NES versions of the Nintendo Entertainment System
What did they mean by this?

>>149415794
I’m glad he finally got his name above Beavis and Butthead with the reboot.

>>149410932 (OP)
It’s even worse than that OP, the truth is he doesn’t even draw every single frame of the cartoon either. In fact, he doesn’t draw ANY of them, the absolute fraud.

>>149420628
It’s some weird shit about manufacturing rights and PAL lockout chips. IIRC the Nintendo Entertainment System was divided across two regions in Europe: PAL-A (which was comprised of just UK and Italy I think) and PAL-B (which was everywhere else in Europe). The main difference between these two regions was the lockout chips, PAL-A couldn’t play games made for PAL-B and vice versa, other than that they were pretty much identical. PAL-A NESes were called "MATTEL VERSION" on the box because that’s who had the distribution rights for them at the time, while PAL-B units were labeled "EUROPEAN VERSION" (except for Spain where they had this written in Spanish). later, Nintendo took over distribution from Mattel and relabeled PAL-A units as the "NES VERSION", which is why you’ll see that
>"This Game Pak cannot be used with the Mattel or NES versions of the Nintendo Entertainment System"
warning on Euro copies of NES games sometimes. Incidentally, as far as I can tell, there was no real reason to split the European market into two different reasons like that, they just did it because fuck bongs I guess. I should mention I’m not European myself so I’ve probably gotten a few things wrong, but I believe that’s the general gist.

>>149421112
That's actually interesting. I'm European and didn't know that, thanks for the lesson Anon.

>>149415464
Rebecca Sugar too, she wore many hats on her show

>>149419983
wonder how he feels about the simpsons allegedly being added to fortnite this year

>>149410932 (OP)
... ya think?

>>149421930
He gets paid plenty of royalties so he doesn't give a fuck. Hasn't since the 2000s, most likely.

>>149421930
I know he didn’t put his name on that Futurama- Fortnite collab a couple of years ago but I don’t know if he has the same deal about his signature for Futurama he’s got with The Simpsons

On Simpsons at least it's contractual, picrel is from a 1989 style guide

>>149410932 (OP)
Is there a more talentless hack in cartoons than him?

>>149423024
I wouldn't want to associate with the fortnite community either

>>149423349
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>>149423349
I've looked through other style guides, while there's no requirement for all stock art to have his signature all SB shit needs to say "created by Stephen Hillenburg" somewhere on the packaging
The less cynical amongst us may think this is standard practice but it is not; as far as I know it's only present on Spongebob, Fairly Odd Parents (and presumably other Hartman shows) and the K-C cartoons, no requirement is listed in the Invader Zim style guide

>>149410932 (OP)
He doesn't. I used to think he did but it's like the "Disney" mark on every Disney project even tho he is dead and frozen in the Cinderella castle. Bill Morrison I believe is the artist for most of the comic covers.

>>149410932 (OP)
I’m starting to think Matt Groening was implicated in legal documents stating that he received a foot massage from Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre during a ride on Epstein's private plane in 1999, and that his feet were so disgusting she almost vomited. She was 16 at the time.

>>149423851
Interesting

>>149423383
lel

>>149422067
>Disenchantment
I still haven't recovered from that garbage show, we were all rooting for it too...

>>149421907
go away