Recently reread this part of Matt Groening's Comics Journal interview in April 1991 where he talks about his time at The Evergreen State College. He's pretty dead on when describing then place back in the 1970s.
I actually recall copies of Arcade sitting around the office of The Cooper Point Journal, the student newspaper Matt edited. Now that I think about it, they probably belonged to Matt!
Matt is being modest here. I was acquainted with Matt and Lynda before they knew each other, and although Matt's chief ambition was to be a writer, he was already into cartooning. Lynda was multi-talented in drawing and writing with a desire to be an art teacher, and Matt, I believe, encouraged and promoted her entry into cartooning. But they did provide each other with a lot of creative spark and energy.
I was some local rural hayseed with barbed wire holes still in my jeans, dazzled by their banter. But they were nice to me anyway.
