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From: Newsweek
Date: 19990329
Author:Hamilton, Kendall

Standing out in a crowd has never been a problem for Matt Groening. In school, he often found himself the lucky winner of an all-expense-paid trip to the principal's office. As a cartoonist, he's given the world "Life in Hell," a singularly skewed comic strip that runs in 250 papers. And, of course, he created the revolutionary animated sitcom "The Simpsons," which through 10 seasons has become the longest- running--and perhaps most-obsessed-over--comedy on television. Groening is now set to unleash the very promising "Futurama," a wryly dystopian sci-fi sendup that stars a pizza ...

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