Salon profiles Matt Groening, from “Life in Hell” to “Futurama”. He has “a father named Homer, a mother named Marge and sisters named Maggie and Lisa.” Sound familiar? He named one of his sons “Homer” as well. And the author sneaks in a reference to Groening’s life as being “more Quixotic than Homeric.” Groening hasn’t written for the Simpsons since the beginning. But he keeps his hand in the alternative comic world, still putting out the adventures of Akbar & Jeff, Binky and Bongo. He certainly isn’t responsible, I hope, for the terrible Simpsons Sunday cartoon that mercifully disappeared from my paper after a couple months.