Childhood is hell

a cartoon book

The most hellish subject of all - school - is the topic of this vital tome, as Matt Groening turns to his well of wit and wacky wizardry to create a comicopia of childhood. Lessons include how to drive a crazy teacher crazier (which tells of three annoying ways to ask to go to the lavatory). Teachers can be illuminated

too, with the Teacher's Guide to Words that Make Kids Snicker. which ran in the States during the 80s and early 90s. Asked to turn the characters into TV animation, Groening instead developed The Simpsons, retaining many of the characteristics of Binky, Bongo, Sheba, Jeff and Akbar in the series.

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