At San Diego Comic Con in 1996, I went up to the Bongo Comics booth because I'd heard Matt Groening was going to be there. I was 13, and I loved The Simpsons, so I wanted to meet him. When I got there, the person who was running the booth at the time told me that I had just barely missed the cut off to meet him. Instead of going into teenage rage mode, I was bummed. I just said: "aw," and remarked that The Simpsons was my favorite show. I thanked the woman at the booth anyways and walked away.
About five seconds later, the woman called after to me and asked me to come back to the booth. It turns out that Matt heard the entire exchange unbeknownst to me, and he had autographed a picture and drew a Bart Simpson head on it for me. He handed it to the lady who handed it to me. Free of charge. I lit up like a Christmas tree. I will take this memory with me to my grave. It was so nice of him.
My question is, can you show this to him and pass along my sincere thanks? I'm 30 years old now, and I've resolved that at some point in my life, I want to be able to tell this to him and thank him. However, I'm not exactly sure that I'll ever get that chance, so I just thought I would throw this out there. Thanks, either way.
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At San Diego Comic Con in 1996, I went up to the Bongo Comics booth because I'd heard Matt Groening was going to be there. I was 13, and I loved The Simpsons, so I wanted to meet him. When I got there, the person who was running the booth at the time told me that I had just barely missed the cut off to meet him. Instead of going into teenage rage mode, I was bummed. I just said: "aw," and remarked that The Simpsons was my favorite show. I thanked the woman at the booth anyways and walked away.
About five seconds later, the woman called after to me and asked me to come back to the booth. It turns out that Matt heard the entire exchange unbeknownst to me, and he had autographed a picture and drew a Bart Simpson head on it for me. He handed it to the lady who handed it to me. Free of charge. I lit up like a Christmas tree. I will take this memory with me to my grave. It was so nice of him.
My question is, can you show this to him and pass along my sincere thanks? I'm 30 years old now, and I've resolved that at some point in my life, I want to be able to tell this to him and thank him. However, I'm not exactly sure that I'll ever get that chance, so I just thought I would throw this out there. Thanks, either way.
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