Deborah Kaplan has been divorced from Matt Groening since 1999. The Good, the Bart, and the Loki (2021) Indeed, the biggest danger the show seems to face is that it will lose its power to surprise. he said in a Mother Jones interview. In 2016, he developed a new series for Netflix, Disenchantment, which began in August 2018. Beginning 1987, he worked in the Traccy Ullman Show for two years as writer and animator. The Simpsons is the longest-running U.S. primetime-television series in history and the longest-running U.S. animated series and sitcom. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/matthew-abram-groening-2308.php, 20th Century Film & Theater Personalities, 21st Century Film & Theater Personalities, 20th Century American Film & Theater Personalities, 21st Century American Film & Theater Personalities, Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour), Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less). The message? Life in Hell comic strips were published in over 250 weekly papers and they were later collated in a series of books titled: School is Hell, Childhood is Hell, The Big Book of Hell, and The Huge Book of Hell. "Simpsons" executive producer Mike Scully, who took over as show runner, or head writer, in 1996, has said that in order to write for "The Simpsons," a writer must have "a healthy disrespect for everything Americans hold dear." It's my foundation,"[37] the June 16, 2012 strip marked Life in Hell's conclusion. Over lunch on the 20th Century Fox lot, he tried to dispel a lot of misconceptions about "The Simpsons," about television and about comedy in general. [93] In 2015, Groening's daughters Luna Margaret and India Mia were born. The show continued in to 2013,[76][77] before Comedy Central announced in April 2013 that they would not be renewing it beyond its seventh season. Groening and Deborah Caplan married in 1986 and had two sons, Homer (who goes by Will) and Abe. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Originally, Brooks wanted Groening to adapt his Life in Hell characters for the show. [75] Comedy Central commissioned an additional 26 new episodes, and began airing them in 2010. "[17] The Simpsons was co-developed by Groening, Brooks, and Sam Simon, a writer-producer with whom Brooks had worked on previous projects. '", Sharing one inane series of meetings, he told the magazine, "I said, 'Look, I told you "Futurama" is not going to be bland and boring like "The Jetsons." He rose to fame with the comic strip Life in Hell; and his animated television series The Simpsons. [34], Life in Hell became popular almost immediately. While working on his animated series Futurama, he took up multiple roles like voice actor, creator, writer and executive producer of the show. The poster contained tribute cartoons by 22 of Groening's cartoonist friends who were influenced by Life in Hell. But while he used to drive a beat-up Dodge Dart, he now drives a sleek new BMW. Matt Groening sa constellation est Verseau et . Menu Log In Sign Up By his own description, Mr. Groening behaved as a child much as Bart Simpson would if only he had more scholastic aptitude. They had 2 children, Homer (31) and Abe (29). After marriage, he became step father to Augustina Picassos daughter Camille. Groening worked as the editor of the campus newspaper, The Cooper Point Journal, for which Groening also wrote articles and drew cartoons. And I said, 'I think it's Elroy.' Then Fox moved "Futurama" to Tuesday night, and audiences fell to about 8 million. He also co-wrote and produced The Simpsons Movie, released in 2007. 7) Do you question authority when authority is out of earshot? Yet Groening's DNA is all over the show, from the characters named after the streets of his hometown (Flanders, Lovejoy, etc. He made his first professional cartoon sale to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. The final strip of the comic strip "Life in Hell" was published on June 16, 2012. Patricia was an art dealer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell (1977-2012) and the television series The Simpsons (1989-present), Futurama (1999-2003, 2008-2013, 2023-onwards [2] ), and Disenchantment (2018-2022). But for a few brief moments in the early '90s, the idea that anything "alternative" could suddenly overtake the mainstream was still surprising. From his friends at the "alternative" newspapers like The Village Voice that run his comic strip, Mr. Groening gets a fair amount of flak, he says, about "selling out." James L. Brooks negotiated a provision in the contract with the Fox network that prevented Fox from interfering with the show's content. Anyone can read what you share. I may be going to hell, but I did embrace all the stuff -- the T-shirts, the Bart phone, the chess set, all of it.". Netflix has also renewed the series for twenty additional episodes, which are expected to start in ten-episode batches in 2020 and 2021. Born in 1954 in Portland, Oregon, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening had, in many ways, an idyllic childhood. [12] Although Groening previously stated, "I'll never give up the comic strip. Gratuit English at Leicester University of Leicest. The couple divorced in 1999. 1 program. Groening was one of four children. He gleefully zinged their sensibilities after becoming editor of the school paper, at one point instigating a petition that condemned his satirization of communal life, while also training his ire on mainstream targets like the Washington state legislature. Writer/director Deborah Kaplan met partner, writer/director Harry Elfont, at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' prestigious film school. Biography and associated logos are trademarks of A+E Networksprotected in the US and other countries around the globe. For a man who has become famous on the strength of his dark musings, starting with "Life in Hell," his weekly comic strip, Mr. Groening (it rhymes with complaining, his publicist says) comes off in person as surprisingly benign: big, bearish and still a bit astonished to find his jokes getting so out of hand. Groening serves as the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell (19772012) and the television series The Simpsons (1989present), Futurama (19992003, 20082013, 2023, and Disenchantment (2018present). On the radio, a drunken DJ wept a final farewell to his job. Twenty-four years ago, Groening was just another unrecognized genius driving to Los Angeles in a crummy car with a coat hanger for a radio antenna. His mission, Groening has said, was to create a sofa-centric sitcom about a typical American family and turn it upside down in retaliation for all the bad TV he watched as a kid. Matt Groening has won 12 Primetime Emmy Awards and 23 Annie Awards across various categories. If you answered no, you are also probably a fan of Matt Groening. Matt Groening (1954-) biography on Film Reference. He found some work along those lines, whipping up slogans for horror movies, but also took on. After the two became romantically involved, she established a business to promote her future husband's work, negotiating syndication arrangements with other publications and a book deal with Pantheon. It was thanks to Brooks' reputation that "The Simpsons" was granted a level of autonomy not normally given to television shows -- especially one as risky as "The Simpsons" seemed at the time. He is not. Deborah Caplan: Net Worth: $600 million: Birth Place: Portland, OR: Nationality: American: Education: Evergreen State College: Father: Homer Philip Groening: Mother: In the mid '80s, renowned producer James L. Brooks approached Groening about using the characters from "Life in Hell" on a new show he was developing for comedian Tracey Ullman. [35][40] In 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of working in animation on an undefined future project,[9] which would turn out to be developing a series of short animated skits, called "bumpers," for the Fox variety show The Tracey Ullman Show. The book became a success with over 20000 copies being sold in its initial two printings. In 1997, Groening and former Simpsons writer David X. Cohen developed Futurama, an animated series about life in the year 3000, which premiered in 1999, running for four years on Fox, then picked up by Comedy Central for additional seasons. 8) Does this fill you with shame and guilt and cheese puffs? The duo left the newspaper company and Matt Groening founded the Acme Features Syndicate that distributed Life in Hell. The show, according to Groening, was "buried." It was reported on January 15, 2016, that Groening was in talks with Netflix to develop a new animated series. [49] Marge's distinct beehive hairstyle was inspired by Bride of Frankenstein and the style that Margaret Groening wore during the 1960s, although her hair was never blue. He married Deborah Caplan 1986 . A few years earlier they had set up their own syndicate, ACME Features, to distribute the strip. But the short clips were a hit with fans, and producers began exploring a standalone series as Tracey Ullman floundered in the ratings. ------------------------------------------. "But I thought I would have a little bit more leeway since I made Fox so much money with 'The Simpsons. [86][88] He illustrated the cover of Frank Zappa's posthumous album Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute (1996). The details may vary, but the story, like most of the stories Groening tells about the defining moments in his life, reads like a fairy tale. Groening and Deborah Caplan married in 1986 and had two sons, Homer (who goes by Will) and Abe. [80] He described the fantasy-oriented series as originating in a sketchbook full of "fantastic creatures we couldn't do on The Simpsons". [89] In May 2010, he curated another edition of All Tomorrow's Parties in Minehead, England. Perhaps, were he to walk in off the street, he could get a job as a writer on the show. Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of Life in Hell to the avant-garde magazine Wet in 1978. The final episode aired on September 4, 2013. I Thought I Told You to Shut Up!! "So much humor is based on 'life is horrible, sex is nasty and you can't trust anyone,' " he said. His sister Maggie is not mute. Groening's career got a boost in the early 1980s when the L.A. Even to this date, it continues to appear in many other alternative newspapers. During this time he was the editor of college paper The Cooper Point Journal.