Tropes

My dearest Cecily, I am writing to tell you that despite all the misunderstandings and arguments of these past years, I love you truly and always have. I should have told you in person, but with everything that has happened, I felt able…

In 1989, The Simpsons came on our television sets, took everything we thought we knew about animation, and kicked it in the crotch. This was no mindless Saturday-morning pap, no standard superhero reiteration. Instead, it was sharp…