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Would You Have Read Lisa Simpson Mystery Novels by Gail Simone?

It's Gail Simone's birthday today. Happy Birthday, Gail.

As she knuckles down as creative lead for Catalyst Prime at Lion Forge, she also reminisced on Facebook about her time at Bongo Comics, the first comics publisher to hire her, for The Simpsons — and then proceeded to give her as much work as she could handle.

The publisher, co-founded by Matt Groening, appears to be closing and has recently posted details of their final Simpsons and Spongebob comics for October.

It is likely the licenses have — or will be — picked up. Europe is still a strong market for Simpsons comics, often topping the charts in France. That demand will be satisfied somehow.

But going through her many experiences with the publisher, Gail also mentioned something that never was.

'"For a while, they were hot on the idea of Lisa Simpson child mystery novels, with Ralph as her Watson. Somewhere, the first chapters of those exist, but they never happened as a published work."

Seems just the kind of this that might do well now… if there was a publisher to put them out, of course.

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