Somehow I stumbled across the "San Diego Comic-Con" group, so I had to go dig up this memory....

            It was 1988, and I think the only reason we even went down to the SDCC was because Matt Groening was going to be there (any excuse for a road trip.) I'd been a Life in Hell fan since the early 80s, and this was my all-time favorite -- I swear to God this was the scene in my house every single day my mom came home from work.

Around 1985 a roommate was a waitress at Canter's, and Groening came in one night. He left behind a paper place-mat covered in doodles, including an early, crude Bart look-a-like, and she brought it home for me. The funny thing is, I think it was supposed to be meant as kind of a slight, actually, as in, "Here, I brought you some trash from work." 
I have it framed -- I wonder if he would actually sign it....
   

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