Groening was born on February 15, 1954,[3][4] in Portland, Oregon,[5] the middle of five children (older brother Mark and sister Patty were born in 1950 and 1952, while the younger sisters Lisa and Maggie in 1956 and 1958, respectively). She died of heart failure on January 24, 2013. Matt and Deborah separated in 1999. (2015) [58], Although The Tracey Ullman Show was not a big hit,[59] the popularity of the shorts led to a half-hour spin-off in 1989. Groening is the brother-in-law of the creator of Hey Arnold !, Craig Barlett, who is married to his sister Lisa. There is not much information about Mark. In a strange coincidence, they discovered that their parents were friends and that they both attended neighboring high schools in Philadelphia. After graduating to a job at a record store called Licorice Pizza, whose gimmick it was to give away licorice to its customers (but whose employees often found themselves providing free licorice meals to the indigent instead), Groening began drawing "Life in Hell," a self-published, xeroxed comic book starring Binky, a lonely, alienated rabbit living in low-income Hollywood hell. Claiming that it was a bit too obvious to name a character after himself, he chose the name "Bart," an anagram of brat. This comic book made its official debut as a comic strip in the Reader on April 25, 1980, and caught the attention of Hollywood writer-producer and Gracie Films founder James L. Brooks, who had been shown the strip by fellow producer Polly Platt. They had been married for 11.1 years. The strip gained traction after a shift in tone, with Binky becoming less preachy and more of a victim of the cultural and social forces that browbeat dissidents into submission. From teachers who forced him to rip up his cartoons in front of the class, to the petty tyranny of bosses ("I was told that I would never get a job in the Pacific Northwest in journalism after my disgraceful stewardship of the Cooper Point Journal," Groening told the graduating class in a commencement address at his alma mater, Evergreen State College. The couple also welcomes daughters Luna Margaret and India Mia born in 2015. Groening knew this would have meant losing ownership rights to his characters, so he decided to start from scratch. In Groening's version, the boy dies from his head injury and returns as a ghost every Halloween, a morbid tale that surprisingly became the winning entry. When he and former "Simpsons" show runner David X. Cohen (now the show runner on "Futurama") first approached Fox with the new idea, the network went into instant paroxysms of ecstasy. Executive producer and show runner Mike Scully once told the New Yorker, "People are always asking why 'The Simpsons' is still so good after all these years, and, at the risk of pissing off all the other writers, I think I'd have to say that the main reason is probably George." 7) Do you question authority when authority is out of earshot? I think he kind of wants to prove, maybe to no one but himself, that he can do it without those guys.". [90] In July 2013, Groening co-authored Hard Listening (2013) with the rest of the Rock Bottom Remainders (published by Coliloquy, LLC).[91]. But while he used to drive a beat-up Dodge Dart, he now drives a sleek new BMW. Groenings estimated net worth is $600 million. He married Agustina Picasso 2011 . More than just a television hit, "The Simpsons" is also a mass marketing phenomenon: probably not since Mickey Mouse raised his ears has a silhouette appeared on as many paraphernalia as Bart Simpson's crown-roast-shaped head. She is the author of "Do You Love Me or Am I Just Paranoid?" You know, "Meet George Jetson. After that, he married actress Augustina Picasso in 2011, after a four-year relationship. The book became a success with over 20000 copies being sold in its initial two printings. Carina Chocano writes about TV for Salon. Following this success, came his next work, Work is Hell, also published by Deborah Caplan. I like the idea of trying to be successful on some level, at least reaching an audience enough so that you can sustain it and keep on going." They have a son, Nathaniel, and twin daughters, Luna and India. Groening worked at the Reader for six years, as a typesetter, editor, paste-up artist and rock critic. [41][42][43] Groening famously named the main Simpson characters after members of his own family: his parents, Homer and Marge (Margaret or Marjorie in full), and his younger sisters, Lisa and Margaret (Maggie). Of Akbar and Jeff, he said: "'People always ask, 'Are they lovers or brothers or both?' [8][50] Bart's original design, which appeared in the first shorts, had spikier hair, and the spikes were of different lengths. All Rights Reserved. [47], The family was crudely drawn, because Groening had submitted basic sketches to the animators, assuming they would clean them up; instead, they just traced over his drawings. Life in Hell caught the attention of American producer James L. Brooks. There are Bart cake pans, Bart bicycles and Bart pinball machines, Bart note cards, Bart soda bottles and Bart game books. Matt has a son with his wife, Argentinian artist Agustina Picasso, and two children with his former wife, Deborah Caplan. Despite the unprecedented success of "The Simpsons," the process of getting "Futurama" on the air has been described by Groening as "the worst experience of my adult life." Its first ten episodes premiered on the streaming service in August 2018, with the remaining ten episodes of the initial order scheduled to air in September 2019. His mission, Groening has said, was to create a sofa-centric sitcom about a typical American family and turn it upside down in retaliation for all the bad TV he watched as a kid. Needless to say, the life-affirming executives at Fox worried that the show was too dark and negative. Deborah Caplan and Matt Groening are divorced after a marriage of 13 years. So the story goes, and it has, as they say, legs. But in any case, Groening allowed the series to evolve under the tutelage of his writers, the undisputed champions of television comedy. In 1984, certain relationship themed strips from his work were published by co- worker Deborah Caplan, as a book titled Love in Hell. Reader in 1986, after writing a letter to the editor over a fellow writer's dismissal, but by then Life in Hell was already appearing in other alt-weeklies and providing extra income through merchandise sales. Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Matt Groening did not particularly like school, which is what originally turned him towards drawing. [94] On June 16, 2018, he became the father of twins for a second time when his wife gave birth to Sol Matthew and Venus Ruth, announced via Instagram. After their marriage, he became the stepfather of Augustina Picasso's daughter Camille. The number was later limited to nine spikes, all of the same size. [92] In May 2013, Picasso gave birth to Nathaniel Philip Picasso Groening, named after writer Nathanael West. Fearing the loss of ownership rights, Groening created a new set of characters, the Simpson family. "If there's a message that runs through the show," he told The New York Times in 2001, well after he had become wealthy and influential beyond his wildest dreams, "it's that maybe the authorities don't have your best interests at heart. "I think Matt likes the fact that this is more his baby," Rich Moore, supervising director of Rough Draft, the company that animates "Futurama," told Spin magazine. Deborah Caplan and Matt Groening are divorced after a marriage of 13 years. From 1972 through 1977, Groening studied at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, a liberal arts school that Groening described as a hippie college, with no grades or required classes, that drew every weirdo in the Northwest. In 2011, Groening married Argentine artist Agustina Picasso after a four-year relationship, and became stepfather to her daughter Camila Costantini. [71] He has had several cameo appearances in the show, with a speaking role in the episode "My Big Fat Geek Wedding". In 2016, Groening developed a new series for Netflix, Disenchantment, which premiered in August 2018. And I always say, 'Whatever offends you the most.' They had 2 children, Homer (31) and Abe (29). According to Groening, the goal with Bongo is to "[try] to bring humor into the fairly grim comic book market. [105], Groening has been nominated for 41 Emmy Awards and has won thirteen, eleven for The Simpsons and two for Futurama in the "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming one hour or less)" category. (Statements like these, of course, set off fits of right-wing apoplexy, much to the amusement and delight of everyone else. Most importantly, The Simpsons retained the subversive undercurrent that has driven its creator since he was a bored grade school student. The Simpsons is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. His spirit of solidarity with children extends to his own sons, Homer, 3, and Abe, 1, toward whom, he confesses, he is "indulgent and spoiling. "[42] Simon eventually left the show in 1993 over creative differences. Groening's position is an interesting one for a satirist to find himself in. This show won many Emmy Awards. In 2016, he developed a new series for Netflix, Disenchantment, which began in August 2018. [49] Marge's distinct beehive hairstyle was inspired by Bride of Frankenstein and the style that Margaret Groening wore during the 1960s, although her hair was never blue. Mr. Groening has several theories for the success of his unusually caustic brand of humor. The animated shorts that Groening created were The Simpsons (1989). [41] The entire Simpson family was designed so that they would be recognizable in silhouette. Agustina Picasso Born - Unknown Agustina is an Argentinian artist. "But I thought I would have a little bit more leeway since I made Fox so much money with 'The Simpsons. He was also given the responsibility of handling the papers music column for a short period. In 1997, he and retired Simpsons writer David X. Cohen developed Futurama, an animated series about life in the year 3000, which premiered in 1999, ran for four years on Fox, then picked up by Comedy Central for more seasons. And yet he speaks like the kid who just made it big, who still can't believe his luck. Reader through an ever-shifting array of responsibilities that included reporter, distribution manager, punk rock critic and assistant editor. Gratuit English at Leicester University of Leicest. In a situation similar to Family Guy, however, strong DVD sales and very stable ratings on Adult Swim brought Futurama back to life. After four years on the air, the show was canceled by Fox. Eventually, it was moved to Sundays at 8 p.m., but although Fox recently ordered 18 more episodes for next season, Groening, thinking like the businessman that he is, still feels the show could benefit from more aggressive promotion and a better time slot. Brooks' and Simon's hand in shaping the show was significant. This is likely influenced by the name of Groening's own parents. The comic strip Life in Hell was a huge success. Groening's career got a boost in the early 1980s when the L.A. After graduating in 1977, Groening headed to Los Angeles with the idea of pursuing a writing career. Matt Groening and Deborah Caplan married in 1986 and have two children: Homer (who goes by the name of Will) and Abe. ``Matt didn't particularly have a reputation for discipline,'' says Randy Michael Signor, a former Reader editor who today works in . Groenings Norwegian American mother, Margaret Ruth (ne Wiggum; March 23, 1919 April 22, 2013), worked once as a teacher, and his Russian Mennonite father named Homer Philip Groening (December 30, 1919 March 15, 1996), served as a filmmaker, advertiser, writer, and cartoonist. Nowadays, you can't throw a rock at a TV set without hitting an irreverent animated social satire. So, how much is Matt Groening worth at the age of 67 years old? [10], Matt's grandfather, Abraham Groening, was a professor at Tabor College, a Mennonite Brethren liberal arts college in Hillsboro, Kansas, before moving to Albany College (now known as Lewis and Clark College) in Oregon in 1930. Realizing that he would lose the rights to his Life in Hell characters with the deal, Groening quickly created a new cartoon family named after his own siblings and parents, albeit with a "Bart" in lieu of a character named after himself. ", The Simpsons are offspring of Bongo, Akbar and Jeff, only slightly less hapless. He won the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Television Production for his animated series The Simpsons during three consecutive years i.e. The world is full of literalists (Elmer Fudds, Mr. Groening would say). "[17] The Simpsons was co-developed by Groening, Brooks, and Sam Simon, a writer-producer with whom Brooks had worked on previous projects. He is 68 years old. At 39, Mr. Groening still observes many of the customs of the youthful counterculture where he got his start: his hair is longish, his attire runs toward T-shirts and sneakers, and instead of business cards he hands out his phone number on little bits of torn paper. After four years the show was cancelled, however, it maintained a strong fan following. Before, Groening was married to his first wife Deborah Caplan. Deborah Caplan Born - Unknown Deborah is a publisher. In 2009 and 2010, Matt Groening was awarded with the Annie Award in the category Best Animated Home Entertainment for Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs and Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder respectively. [15] At the end of its run, Life in Hell was carried in 250 weekly newspapers and has been anthologized in a series of books, including School is Hell, Childhood is Hell, The Big Book of Hell, and The Huge Book of Hell. In interview after interview, he has recalled his youthful vow never to forget what childhood was like -- a gauntlet of petty rules and restrictions that exist only to be broken. Spouse/Ex-: Agustina Picasso, Deborah Caplan, siblings: Lisa Groening, Maggie Groening, Mark Groening, Patty Groening, children: Abe Groening, Homer Groening, Nathaniel Philip Picasso Groening, Ancestry: Norwegian American, Canadian American, Notable Alumni: The Evergreen State College, Founder/Co-Founder: Bongo Comics Group, Zongo Comics, The Curiosity Company, Quotes By Matt Groening | Matt Groening created the show The Simpsons, and two of the principal characters, a husband and wife, are named Homer and Marge. 8) Does this fill you with shame and guilt and cheese puffs? In 2013, the couple had a son named Nathaniel Philip Picasso. Matt Groening - Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Matt Groening did not particularly like school, which is what originally turned him towards drawing. When he's not telling the Cinderella story, the story Groening tells about himself is a David and Goliath story; and the older and more powerful he becomes, the bigger and more powerful the lumbering naysayers standing in his way. All rights reserved. Bush family aside, who is not a fan of Matt Groening? [86] He guest-edited Da Capo Press's Best Music Writing 2003[87] and curated a US All Tomorrow's Parties music festival in 2003. The Simpsons (1989-present) ", See the article in its original context from. [18] Groening has credited Barry with being "probably [his] biggest inspiration. His sister Maggie is not mute. The couple has two sons, Homer and Abe. By high school, Groening had learned to channel his subversive leanings in a manner that engaged his classmates. View Matt Groening results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Beginning 1987, he worked in the Traccy Ullman Show for two years as writer and animator. In 1973, he moved to LA and sold his comic strip Life in Hell to the LA weekly. [109], He was awarded the Inkpot Award in 1988. [41][44] However, he stresses that aside from some of the sibling rivalry, his family is nothing like the Simpsons. A self-published anthology of. I Thought I Told You to Shut Up!! Abe Groening (born 1993) His television series titled Futurama also earned him the Annie Award for Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production in the years 2010 and 2014, while his other work The Simpsons won the award in this category in the years 2011, 2012 and 2015. Futurama: Benders Big Score (2007) In 1991, the newly wealthy Groening still seemed to struggle with the central paradox of his career. With a developing cast of characters that included Binky's girlfriend Sheba, his one-eared son Bongo and the gay entrepreneurs Akbar and Jeff, and recurring components like "The 16 Types of Sisters" and "The 9 Secret Love Techniques That Could Possibly Turn Men Into Putty in Your Hands," the minimally drawn but meticulously written Life in Hell found its niche between the underground comics and mainstream fare. He first sold his comic to magazine Wet, in 1978. [48] When Groening originally designed Homer, he put his own initials into the character's hairline and ear: the hairline resembled an 'M', and the right ear resembled a 'G'. Groening stands at a height of 5 ft 8 in (approx:1.7 m). Upon seeing his work in the comic strip, producer and writer, James L Brooks, expressed his interest to involve Matt Groening in the creation of an animated series to run on comedy series The Tracy Ullman Show. The following year he founded Zongo Comics to target mature comic readers. [62] "Some Enchanted Evening" was the first full-length episode produced, but it did not broadcast until May 1990, as the last episode of the first season, because of animation problems. The show continued in to 2013,[76][77] before Comedy Central announced in April 2013 that they would not be renewing it beyond its seventh season. Groening's success owes as much to his own work as it does to the work of a slew of others, including co-creators James Brooks and Sam Simon, and "The Simpsons'" writing staff. He used to write articles and draw cartoon illustrations for the journal. After graduating in 1977, Groening headed to Los Angeles with the idea of pursuing a writing career. In 1984, Groening and his wife Deborah Caplan published his first "Life in Hell" book, called Love in Hell, and eventually set up a distribution company, Life in Hell Co., which handled the syndication and merchandise for all of Groening's projects. In the mid '80s, renowned producer James L. Brooks approached Groening about using the characters from "Life in Hell" on a new show he was developing for comedian Tracey Ullman. [26] Groening also started Acme Features Syndicate, which initially syndicated Life in Hell as well as work by Lynda Barry and John Callahan, but would eventually only syndicate Life in Hell. (2002). Matt Groening received the British Comedy Award for his Outstanding contribution to comedy. "If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. The poster contained tribute cartoons by 22 of Groening's cartoonist friends who were influenced by Life in Hell. Brooks contacted him in 1985 about adapting Life in Hell for animated sequences for the Fox variety shows The Tracey Ullman Show. He currently serves at The Simpsons as an executive producer and creative consultant. The couple has two sons, Homer and Abe. Groening also became a father of twins On June 16, 2018, when his wife Agustina gave birth to Sol Matthew and Venus Ruth, as reported via Instagram. [51] At the time Groening was primarily drawing in black and "not thinking that [Bart] would eventually be drawn in color" gave him spikes that appear to be an extension of his head. [80] He described the fantasy-oriented series as originating in a sketchbook full of "fantastic creatures we couldn't do on The Simpsons". 2. Groening is credited with writing or co-writing the episodes "Some Enchanted Evening", "The Telltale Head", "Colonel Homer" and "22 Short Films About Springfield". Matt Groening (full Name: Matthew Abram Groening) is a popular American cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator. Life in Hell comic strips were published in over 250 weekly papers and they were later collated in a series of books titled: School is Hell, Childhood is Hell, The Big Book of Hell, and The Huge Book of Hell. Post years of research in science fiction, in 1997, Matt Groening along with producer, David X Cohen, created an animated series project titled Futurama, about life in the year 3000. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell (1977-2012) and the television series The Simpsons (1989-present), Futurama (1999-2003, 2008-2013, 2023-onwards [2] ), and Disenchantment (2018-2022). It sneaked up on everybody. Matt Groening's then-girlfriend, Deborah Caplan, published "Love is Hell" in November 1984 which is a book form of series of relationship-themed "Life in Hell" strips and followed by "Work is Hell" which was also published by her. In 1987, Groening married fellow Weekly staffer Deborah Caplan. Le 15-2-1954 , Matt Groening (surnom: Matthew Abram Groening, Bat Groening, Mad Groening) est n Portland, Oregon, United States. Writer/director Deborah Kaplan met partner, writer/director Harry Elfont, at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' prestigious film school. The network resisted giving Groening the autonomy he needed and plied him with notes. Ian Maxtone-Graham, another writer on the show, has said in an interview, "I would rather make George Meyer laugh than get an Emmy." He has donated money to the unsuccessful presidential campaigns of Democratic candidates Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004, as well as previously donating to Kerry's Massachusetts senator campaign. When Comedy Central committed to sixteen new episodes, it was decided that four straight-to-DVD films Bender's Big Score (2007), The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008), Bender's Game (2008) and Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009) would be produced. Le fils de pre Homer Philip Groening et mre Margaret Ruth est comdien de stand-up, crivain & caricaturiste, anno 2023 clbre pour The Simpsons & Futurama. "I never saw anything as crude as my stuff getting published," he has said. "I wake up every morning thinking how lucky I am. Along with mailing the comics to friends and family back in Portland, he attempted to sell his stapled-together books from his record store. Deborah Caplan: Groening has been in a relationship with Deborah Caplan since 2006. Furthermore, the once-struggling artist was about to be presented with the business offer that would change his life forever. The early iteration of The Simpsons was a crude, Neanderthal version of the family that would become ubiquitous in pop culture; both Bart and Lisa were troublemakers, and Homer was a barely controlled cauldron of rage. He is also a father to five more children. They had 2 children. Matt Groening Love Is Hell His then-girlfriend and co-worker at the Reader Deborah Caplan offered to publish "Love is Hell", a series of relationship-themed Life in Hell strips, in book form. By his own description, Mr. Groening behaved as a child much as Bart Simpson would if only he had more scholastic aptitude. Life in Hell caught the attention of American producer James L. Brooks. Maratona Especial Os Simpsons (since 2017). He works as a cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator. [66] Despite common fan belief that Sideshow Bob Terwilliger was named after SW Terwilliger Boulevard in Portland, he was actually named after the character Dr. Terwilliker from the film The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.[67], Although Groening has pitched a number of spin-offs from The Simpsons, those attempts have been unsuccessful. In 2008, Matt Groening won the Annie Award in the Writing in a Feature Production for comedy film The Simpsons movie. "Futurama" moved away from the family sitcom structure and into dysfunctional workplace territory, a subject that had long inspired Groening. "I don't consider anything beneath me. In 1972, he enrolled at the Evergreen State College in Olympia and studied there for five years. Menu Log In Sign Up The artist saw his first non-self-published comic appear in a 1978 issue of Wet magazine. Groening and Deborah divorced in 1999. Groening went to Ainsworth Elementary School and Lincoln High School. "Of course, those are all true. From his friends at the "alternative" newspapers like The Village Voice that run his comic strip, Mr. Groening gets a fair amount of flak, he says, about "selling out." The Simpsons is the longest-running U.S. primetime-television series in history and the longest-running U.S. animated series and sitcom. "[19] The show premiered on March 28, 1999. They divorced in 1999 and Groening . "To many divisions of this company, 'The Simpsons' was the shining light that kept us motivated and believing that our division would grow. He found some work along those lines, whipping up slogans for horror movies, but also took on a series of jobs that included chauffeur, dishwasher and record store clerk to make a living. He studied at Evergreen State College and edited the campus newspaper. [30] The strip, titled "Forbidden Words," appeared in the September/October issue of that year. It's my foundation,"[37] the June 16, 2012 strip marked Life in Hell's conclusion. It may simply be, he speculates, "that people don't get it.". Groening won a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 14, 2012. "I guess I shouldn't have been surprised, because this is how everyone is treated [in Hollywood]," he told Mother Jones. They had two sons together, Homer and Abe. [82], In 1994, Groening formed Bongo Comics (named after the character Bongo from Life in Hell[83]) with Steve Vance, Cindy Vance and Bill Morrison, which publishes comic books based on The Simpsons and Futurama (including Futurama Simpsons Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis, a crossover between the two), as well as a few original titles. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. He described life in Los Angeles to his friends in the form of the self-published comic book Life in Hell, which became loosely inspired by the chapter How to Go to Hell in Walter Kaufmanns book Critique of Religion and Philosophy. Soon, he was driving an 88-year-old movie director around by day and ghost-writing his autobiography by night while living upstairs from a nocturnal rock lover (whose ceiling light he eventually dislodged with a plunging cinderblock).
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