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; “…showed first 75 words of 708 total…

…showed last 75 words of 708 total…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. 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. Matt Now is 45 years old and is still going strong even though he now has over 200 different characters to work with.