Simpsons Comics

Simpsons Comics is a monthly United States comic book series based on the animated TV show The Simpsons, published by Matt Groening's Bongo Comics group. The first issue was published in November 1993. Since then over one hundred issues have been released, with the |th issue mainly the comic book equivalent of a clip show.

Since March 1997, the comic has also had a monthly UK edition. This mainly reprints the strips from the U.S. edition, along with pages featuring UK readers' drawings (currently Springfield Multiplex for movie parodies, and Android's Dungeon for game and comic parodies) and Junk Mail, a letters page which also features generic drawings, along with the readers' frequent attempts to guess the identity of the person who answers the letters. The U.S. and Australian editions used to have Junk Mail, but it disappeared beginning with #114.

Also published is Simpsons Classics, which reprints strips from earlier editions of Simpsons Comics. The stories have, however, been reprinted in trade paperbacks by Harper Perennial since 1995.

From 1994 to 1999, excerpts from Simpsons Comics were printed in Disney Adventures, although the magazine is intended for children and Disney has no ownership of the franchise.

In the Latin edition, the magazines first published by the Mexican Grupo editorial vid, started in the same order in February, 1996.

The Australian editions include an Angry Dad comic.

As of November 2007, Simpsons Comics are published in Serbia by Večernje novosti.

Issues
The American Simpsons Comics was originally published bimonthly, but beginning with #13, began monthly publication. It went back to bimonthly publication at #30 before finally resuming monthly publishing at #51.

Trade Paperbacks
Issues of Simpsons Comics have been collected in the following Trade Paperbacks:

Additional issues not included in the Simpsons Comics TPBs have been collected in the following volumes:

United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, comics are around a year behind. The UK Simpsons Comics have junkmail section.

Past issues are collected in both The Best of the Simpsons and Simpsons Treasure Trove.

They also have Bart Simpson Comics and super spectacular comics in the UK.

Italy
In Italy, the series started in May 1998, published by "Macchia Nera" with the title "I Simpson" (The Simpsons). From issue 33 to 41 the publish house was "Dino Entertanment Italia". From 42 to 101 they have been published by "Panini". Numbers from 101 are unpublished in Italy.