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Matt Groening

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American cartoonist (born 1954)

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Matt Groening is an American animator, author, film producer, and screenwriter. Born on February 15, 1954, in Portland, Oregon, he is a member of the Democratic Party and the Writers Guild of America West. He attended Evergreen State College and has been active in his field since 1977. Groening is left-handed and identifies as an agnostic.

His notable work includes *The Simpsons*. He has received a Primetime Emmy Award, the Winsor McCay Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. Additionally, he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was nominated for an Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production. He writes in English.

Synthesized by Vinony from 39 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
15 February 1954
Works
355

Top works

  • The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
  • The "Simpsons" Forever
  • El Libro de Los Animales
  • Futurama-o-rama
  • Les Simpson, numéro 1

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Film & TV

Writing · Portland, Oregon, USA

Matthew Abram Groening (/ˈɡreɪnɪŋ/ GRAY-ning; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator. He is best known as the creator of the television series The Simpsons (1989–present), Futurama (1999–2003, 2008–2013, 2023–present), and Disenchantment (2018–2023), as well as the comic strip Life in Hell (1977–2012). The Simpsons is the longest-running American…

Known for

  • The Residents - A Documentary — Matt Groening2024
  • It Came From Aquarius Records — Self2022
  • Classic Albums: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out! — Self2021
  • Emily @ the Edge of Chaos — Aldo Leopold (voice)2021
  • Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents — Himself2015
  • I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! — Himself2015
  • A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman — Self - Creator of 'The Simpsons'2015
  • Sex and Broadcasting — Self2014
  • I Know That Voice — Self2014
  • The One and Only June Foray — Self2013

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United States
Active from
1954

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
613
Total plays
20,416

Matt Groening is an award-winning American cartoonist best known as the creator of successful television series The Simpsons and Futurama as well as the comic strip Life In Hell. Groening is a founder of comic book publishing companies Bongo Comics and Zongo Comics. He also plays cowbell for novelty rock band The Rock Bottom Remainders. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Matt+Groening">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,438x

  2. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,770x

  3. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

    · 2013 · cited 13,548x

  4. Molecular portraits of human breast tumours

    · 2000 · cited 12,720x

  5. Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

    · 2017 · cited 12,430x

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Quotes

  • “It rhymes with complaining.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Portland
Political party
Democratic Party (United States)
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Religion
agnosticism
Award
Inkpot Award
Notable work
The Simpsons
Field of work
cartoonist
Image
Matt Groening by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg
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Commons category
Matt Groening
date of birth
1954-00-00
nominated for
Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production
handedness
left-handedness
start of work period
1977-00-00
birth name
Matthew Abram Groening
writing language
English language
member of
Writers Guild of America West
has works in the collection
Eye Filmmuseum
name in native language
Matt Groening
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Encyclopedic overview

Matthew Abram Groening (/ˈɡreɪnɪŋ/ GRAY-ning; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist and animator. He is the creator of the television series The Simpsons (1989–present), Futurama (1999–2003, 2008–2013, 2023–present), and Disenchantment (2018–2023), as well as the comic strip Life in Hell (1977–2012).

Born in Portland, Oregon, Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of Life in Hell to the avant-garde magazine Wet in 1978. At its peak, it was carried in 250 weekly newspapers and caught the attention of the producer James L. Brooks, who contacted Groening in 1985 about adapting it for animated sequences for the Fox variety show The Tracey Ullman Show. Fearing the loss of ownership rights, Groening created a new set of characters, the Simpson family. The shorts were spun off into their own series, The Simpsons, which became the longest-running American primetime television series and the longest-running American animated series and sitcom.

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