Choose Your Illusion: Matt Groen
Choose Your Illusion
Matt Groening was born on 15th February 1954, I Portland, Oregonb, Groening grew up an artistic child in Portland, and attended Evergreen State College in Olmpia , Washington, a non-traditional public university that he has called a haven for “ self-disciplined creative weirdoes.” [1]
Groening went to animation after meeting fellow Evergreen student and cartoonist Lynda Barry. He was inspired by Barry’s ability to make a living selling her somics to alternative papers, and influenced by other underground cartoonists like Robert Crumb, Groening graduated from college and moved to los Angeles in 1973 to work as a writer. [1] After spending a few years working miserable part-time jobs, Groening sold his comic strip “Life
in Hell” to the alternative LA Weekly in 1980. [1]
The success of “Life in Hell “attracted the attention of a writer and producer James L.Brooks, who contacted Groening to see if he’d be interested in creating a series of animated shorts to run on the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman show. [1]
The Simpsons has now been on the sir for several decades, earning multiple Emmy Awards as well as the title of the longest-running entertainment series in primetime television – succeeding Gunsmoke in 2009 – along the way. [1]
Matt Groening was born on 15th February 1954, I Portland, Oregonb, Groening grew up an artistic child in Portland, and attended Evergreen State College in Olmpia , Washington, a non-traditional public university that he has called a haven for “ self-disciplined creative weirdoes.” [1]
Groening went to animation after meeting fellow Evergreen student and cartoonist Lynda Barry. He was inspired by Barry’s ability to make a living selling her somics to alternative papers, and influenced by other underground cartoonists like Robert Crumb, Groening graduated from college and moved to los Angeles in 1973 to work as a writer. [1] After spending a few years working miserable part-time jobs, Groening sold his comic strip “Life
in Hell” to the alternative LA Weekly in 1980. [1]
The success of “Life in Hell “attracted the attention of a writer and producer James L.Brooks, who contacted Groening to see if he’d be interested in creating a series of animated shorts to run on the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman show. [1]
The Simpsons has now been on the sir for several decades, earning multiple Emmy Awards as well as the title of the longest-running entertainment series in primetime television – succeeding Gunsmoke in 2009 – along the way. [1]