Matt Groening
Matt Groening spent his child life in Portland, Oregon USA. His father was a Cartoonist and a film producer of surfing films. He had a mother called Margaret, a father called Homer and two little sisters called Lisa and Maggie. This is where the Simpson characters got their names. He grew up watching TV sitcoms like "Leave It To Beaver" about a boy called Beaver who got up to all sorts of adventures; "Aussie and Harriet" and "Dennis the Menace". When He became a teenager he started to draw Charlie Brown from Peanuts as he read them so frequently. These were his first cartoons. At School he was an under achiever. He got terrible test results and unfair grades. So he swore never to take another test again. He was very lucky, as he found a college with no tests or grades and he studied what he wanted when you wanted. This was the Evergreen State College. All the great art and music minds went there and Matt started real cartooning. He had friends there who also cartooned and so he was not unusual in any way.
The shorts were designed to go before or after commercial breaks. He started to draw comic strips with them but you couldn't tell who was who. Matt would draw him in his attic with police sirens and helicopter buzzing and wailing out side so his tension would be high, hence the title, and would send them off to various newspapers to be printed in them. Later on again Sheeba, Binky's girlfriend was introduced. Matt then changed his style a little so they looked more like how they do today and employed a team of writers and animators to help him. This has almost been running for a year now and Matt hopes to animate his "A Life In Hell" series like he was meant to 10 years ago. He is now still going with The Simpsons and has started Futurama about a man who gets stuck in the future with a one eyed girl and a talking robot. So he introduced Akbar and Jeff into "A Life in Hell" and everyone was happy. Later on he started to wear a fez and Matt called him Akbar. He was scared because he thought if no one liked Binky, Sheeba, Akbar and Jeff then he would be ruined and he would no longer get so much out of the newspaper strips he drew, so he decided to make up a new family. They would have fights about certain things and you would not be able to tell who had which idea. This task only took him 15 minutes and then he started to animate them.
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