Who is Matt Groening?
Matt Groening, born on February 15, 1954, is the creator of The Simpsons, “Futurama”, and “Life in Hell”. Intending to be a professional writer after leaving Evergreen State College in Washington, his career in L.A. came to an end with the unexpected success of his “Life in Hell” comic strip. It was “Life in Hell” that attracted the attention of James L. Brooks of Gracie Films, who in 1985 invited Groening to develop an idea for a future project that later became the animated Simpsons shorts shown during “The Tracey Ullman Show”. Response to the Ullman shorts was so positive that The Simpsons premiered on FOX as a half-hour Christmas special on December 17, 1989, and then as a regular series on January 14, 1990. The rest is history. Aside from The Simpsons and “Life in Hell” (which he still pens on a weekly basis), Groening also created the cult hit “Futurama”. The series follows the adventures of a former New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, after he is cryonically frozen
