Matt Groening Biography

Matt Groening moved to LA in 1973 and sold his comic strip Life in Hell to LA Weekly. Producer James L. Brooks asked Groening to create animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show and The Simpsons was born. The show has earned 10 Emmys and has run for 22 seasons. Though he later borrowed some of his family's names for characters in The Simpsons the real members of Groening's family bore little resemblance to their cartoon namesakes. His father Homer Groening was an English major and World War II vet who was a respected documentary filmmaker; mother Margaret Wiggum Groening never had blue hair. Groening first invented a dysfunctional family whose names he mostly borrowed from his own parents and siblings. (Bart not a member of the real Groening family is an anagram of brat.) The Simpsons family premiered on The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19 1987. Ullman's show was soon canceled but the Simpsons were popular enough to earn their own spin-off series which premiered in 1989. More than 20 million viewers tuned in for the 20th anniversary episode in January 2010.

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