Homer, born in Main Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada, grew up in a Mennonite, Plautdietsch-speaking family. His Norwegian mother, Margaret Wiggum, was once a teacher, and his German father, Homer Philip Groening, was a filmmaker, advertiser, writer and cartoonist.
He was the middle child of five children. He grew up in Portland, and attended Ainsworth Elementary School, and Lincoln High School. Groening was born on Februin Portland, Oregon. He also voiced a soccer announcer in " Holidays of Future Passed". Groening has voiced himself on a few occasions, " My Big Fat Geek Wedding", The Simpsons Game and " Homer the Whopper". In some Simpsons Comics, he gives himself a fake title, such as "Big Daddy" ( Taming Your Wild Child), "Cartoonist Gone Wild" ( Bart's Beard), and "Former Heartthrob" ( Faking the Band). In 2002, he won the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for his work on Life in Hell. Groening has won 13 Primetime Emmy Awards, 12 for The Simpsons and one for Futurama as well as a British Comedy Award for "outstanding contribution to comedy" in 2004. He said that if he did not think up the Simpsons, he would probably be in a tire shop, drawing doodles of his boss on the break room wall.
His advice to beginning cartoonists is to not care about what other people think and just try to make yourself laugh. In June 2009, Comedy Central ordered 26 new episodes of Futurama, to be aired over two seasons. After four years on the air, the show was canceled by Fox in 2003, but Comedy Central commissioned 16 new episodes from four direct-to-DVD movies.
Cohen and developed Futurama, an animated series about life in the year 3000, which premiered in 1999. In 1997, Groening got together with David X. The shorts would be spun off into their own series: The Simpsons, which has since aired more than 720 episodes in 33 seasons. Fearing the loss of ownership rights, Groening decided to create something new and came up with a cartoon family, the Simpsons, and named the members after his own parents and sisters - while Bart was an anagram of the word brat. Originally, Brooks wanted Groening to adapt his Life in Hell characters for the show. In 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of working in animation for the FOX variety show The Tracey Ullman Show. Life in Hell caught the attention of James L. 3.1 Created by / Developed by / Executive producer / Character designer / Creative consultant.He will also appear in The Simpsons Take the Bowl. He was also interviewed in The Simpsons: Celebrity Friends, The Simpsons: Mischief & Mayhem, The Simpsons: Access All Areas, The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!, The Simpsons: America's First Family, and The Simpsons: A Culture Show. The cartoon is still carried in 250 weekly newspapers.
Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of Life in Hell to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978.
He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell and television series' The Simpsons, Futurama and Disenchantment. Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening (born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, producer, animator, author, musician, comedian, and voice actor. Matt GroeningĬreator, developer, executive producer, writer, character designer, creative consultant For the character, see Matt Groening (character).