"I had a very typical childhood," said Matt Groening in a San Jose Mercury News article by Michael Oricchio. "The only difference was that I took notes and vowed never to forget what it was like." Groening's vow helped drive him into cartooning, where...

Matt Groening graduated from Evergreen State University in 1977 expecting to become a writer, but cartooning became his claim to fame. By 1991, the creator of the animated television series The Simpsons and the nationally syndicated comic strip Life in...

Matthew Abram Groening (IPA: [gɹeɪnɪŋ], pronounced grey-ning) (born February 15 1954) is an American cartoonist, television producer and writer from Portland, Oregon. Groening is best known as the creator of The Simpsons . He is also the creator of...

It is a year of round-number anniversaries for Matt Groening. In 1977, just graduated from the north-west's most progressive, hippie- ish college, in Olympia, Washington, the young man who went on to create The Simpsons was newly arrived in Los Angeles, and looking to...

'Simpsons' Creator Groening Moves from Pantheon to Harper In 1985, Art Spiegelman, progenitor of Pantheon's Maus, introduced a quirky, controversial underground cartoonist named Matt Groening to editor Wendy Wolf. Groening, who with his wife had self-published a little volume called Love is Hell,...

So here it is: the much anticipated grand finale of the television series that has been part of our consciousness for more than two decades — a program I've been watching since age 5 — in the form of a feature-length movie. Since 1987, The...

TV's favorite animated family, "The Simpsons," already has a hit movie, a video game on the way, a new theme-park ride and the title of America's longest-running sitcom. So what's next? Plenty, according to creator Matt Groening and his team of writers, who spoke to...