How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation

Table of Contents

Foreword by Douglas Coupland

INTRODUCTION: The Birth of the Simpsonian Institution / 1

CHAPTER 1: The Life & Times of the Simpsons / 13

CHAPTER 2: Homer's Odyssey / 77

CHAPTER 3: Bart Simpson, Punk Icon / 119

CHAPTER 4: Citizen Burns / 153

CHAPTER 5: Lisa Lionheart / 193

CHAPTER 6: Marge Knows Best / 235

CHAPTER 7: The Simpsons in Cyberspace / 285

CHAPTER 8: The Ugly Springfieldianite / 325

CHAPTER 9: The Simpsons Go Hollywood / 363

CHAPTER 10: The Simpsons Through the Looking Glass / 397

CHAPTER 11: Planet Simpson / 437

Planet Simpson
By Chris Turner
USA: Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306813416, $26.00
CA: Random House, ISBN 0679313184, $35.00
UK & AU: Ebury/Random House, ISBN 0091897564, £12.99/$29.95

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