little story for tonight.

while i was goofing around with #globalTalk, I ended up searching for some old Simpsons icons for my classic Macintosh (an LC 475), and stumbled upon an entry on the garden called Banned Simpsons Icons. (Who could resist downloading something with a title like that?)

They were called the "Banned Simpsons Icons" because Fox once sent the artist - Jeanette Foshee - a cease & desist letter for her uncannily perfect renderings of the copyrighted characters. they planned on suing her for every penny she made ($0.00) on them. this was back in 1995.

i thought - hell, what a wild story. why don't I get a hold of the artist - jeanette - and find out more about her banned icon set?

what i stumbled upon broke my heart, and i ended up spending a week digitally preserving what i could find.

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@vga256 That’s very sad. I had these icons back in the day. They really were good.

@Charles @vga256 we had them on the hard drive icons for the Macs at the student newspaper. I remember the computers were named things like "Mr Burns" and "Lurleen Lumpkin".

This is the first I'd heard that Fox actually tried to get them wiped from the Internet. That is so stupid. I'm glad they failed.

@csilverman some of the icons are hilarious. there's one labelled "Mr. Burns' Lawyer", and it's a drawing of a shark.