Matt+Groening

Matt Groening []
 * 1) Matt Groening was born on February 15, 1954 in Portland, Oregon.
 * 2) Attended Evergreen state college
 * 3) Editor for the Campus Paper
 * 4) Though he loved cartooning he never thought he would be an avid cartoonist
 * 5) moved to LA in 1973 and sold his comic strip "Life in Hell" to the //LA Weekly//.
 * 6) The show has earned 10 Emmys and run for 22 seasons
 * 7) grew up as the middle of five children, born between older sisters Patty and Lisa and younger siblings Mark and Maggie.
 * 8) After growing up an artistic kid in Portland, Groening attended Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington
 * 9) "I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life," Groening said. "I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy."
 * 10) Groening graduated from college and moved to Los Angeles in 1973 to work as a writer
 * 11) "Life in Hell" soon gained nationwide syndication, earning Groening a huge following and spawning books and collections.
 * 12) "Life in Hell" attracted the attention of a writer and producer named James L. Brooks who contacted Groening to see if he'd be interested in creating a series of animated shorts to run on the sketch comedy series // The Tracey Ullman Show //.
 * 13) Bart," not a member of the real Groening family, is an anagram of "brat.")
 * 14) // IF //// The Simpsons // has any single theme, Groening has said, it is "that your moral authorities don't always have your best interests in mind."
 * 15) third decade on the air, the show has earned 10 Emmy Awards and the title of the longest-running entertainment series in prime time- The Simpsons
 * 16) Groening has been nominated for 25 Emmy awards and has won twelve
 * 17) In '97 Groening hoped to build off the success of the Simspons by creating Futurama
 * 18) Futurama was canceled for 4 years (2009) but then comedy central brought it back on in 2010
 * 19) Formed the comic book publisher Bongo Comics Group in 1994
 * 20) Created Animated shorts for Tracy Ulman