Olivier Lebrun's Simpsonian Book Inventory
Graphic designer Olivier Lebrun has published 'A Pocket Companion to Books from The Simpsons' with Rollo Press. The book inventories, in silent vignettes, a selection of books spotted in the long-running animated series created by Matt Groening in 1989. Alphabetically arranged, it parodies the genre of books about books, featuring absurd manuals, instruction guides, and self-help tomes consumed by characters like Lisa Simpson. The cover and pages are Simpson-yellow. A back-cover dialogue between Lisa and Homer reads: 'I pick up books like you pick up beers.' / 'Then you have a serious reading problem!' Lebrun's previous artist book compiled low-resolution images from an Interpol database of stolen artworks.
Key facts
- Olivier Lebrun is a graphic designer and artist.
- The book is titled 'A Pocket Companion to Books from The Simpsons'.
- Published by Rollo Press.
- The book inventories books appearing in The Simpsons.
- The series was created by Matt Groening in 1989.
- The book has a yellow cover and pages.
- It includes a back-cover dialogue between Lisa and Homer Simpson.
- Lebrun previously made a book from Interpol's stolen art database.
Entities
Artists
- Olivier Lebrun
- Matt Groening
Institutions
- Rollo Press
- Interpol
Sources
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