Matt Groening

Matt Groening born February 15, 1954 in Portland, Oregon is an American cartoonist, screenwriter and producer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell and the television series The Simpsons and Futurama.

He was start to be famous when he was cartoon sale of Life in Hell to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978. The cartoon is still carried in 250 weekly newspapers.

Life in Hell caught the attention of James L. Brooks. In 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of working in animation for the FOX variety show The Tracey Ullman Show.

The Simpsons

Life in Hell caught the attention of Hollywood writer-producer.

Groening storyboarded and scripted every short (now known as The Simpsons shorts), which were then animated by a team including David Silverman and Wes Archer. Matt was surprised that the series of simpsons gets you up.

The Simpsons was co-developed by Groening, Brooks, and Sam Simon, a writer-producer with whom Brooks had worked on previous projects.

Futurama

After spending a few years researching science fiction, Groening got together with Simpsons writer/producer David X. Cohen (still known as David S. Cohen at the time) in 1997 and developed Futurama, an animated series about life in the year 3000.

The show premiered on March 28, 1999. After four years on the air, the show was cancelled by Fox. In a similar situation as Family Guy, however, strong DVD sales and very stable ratings on Cartoon Network brought Futurama back to life, which is slated for four direct-to-DVD movies, as confirmed by Groening in an April 2006 interview.

Groening has been nominated for 25 Emmy awards and has won eleven and more awards.

I think that Matt is a genious and Nobody has given it nothing to gain the tube, for exemple he start in a newspaper and then he go to the fox and start his real degree course. In definitive matt is a genious.

Bibliography

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004981/

http://www.thesimpsons.com/bios/bios_creators_index.htm

http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/01/30/groening/

http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/matt_groening/