Matt Groening, an American cartoonist and animator, was born in 1954 in Portland, Oregon. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell, and the two very famous television series: The Simpsons and Futurama. The Simpsons, created in 1989, was very successful and has become America's longest running animated series and sitcom. But before his immense success, Groening moved to Los Angeles in 1977, where endured a series of lousy jobs, including an extra in a movie, busing tables, washing dishes in an old age home, clerking and chauffeuring a retired director.
His first taste of success was in 1978, when he made his first professional cartoon sale of Life in Hell to Wet magazine, and soon after, his cartoon was being published in 250 weekly newspapers. In 1985, Groening was asked to work in animation for the Fox show The Tracey Ullman Show. It was here where he came up with the Simpsons family, which has now aired 574 episodes to date. In 1999, he and David Cohen developed the animated show Futurama, which ran until September 4th 2013. He is now 61 years old and continues to make new Simpsons episodes weekly.
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