Then Fox moved "Futurama" to Tuesday night, and audiences fell to about 8 million. Though the Tracy Ullman Show was soon cancelled, The Simpsons had gained popularity and earned its exclusive half an hour spin-off series. Matt Groening - Listal Needless to say, it panned out. Homer was a cartoonist, advertiser, writer, and a documentary filmmaker. Later, Groening attended Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., which was known for its extremely liberal (no grades, no core requirements) liberal arts program. Matthew Abraham Groening (1954) | Familypedia | Fandom "What's happened is that mainstream culture has gotten so good at marketing pseudo-hipness that it overwhelms other choices that are out there.". If you answered yes to one or more of the above questions, you are probably a fan of Matt Groening. His spirit of solidarity with children extends to his own sons, Homer, 3, and Abe, 1, toward whom, he confesses, he is "indulgent and spoiling. Deborah Kaplan and Matt Groening | Married Divorced Children Ex Indeed, "The Simpsons" has something to offend almost everyone: the cops sit around eating doughnuts, the teachers are lost without their answer books, the parents are losers and even God is a malcontent. "I wanted to write something they couldn't teach in high school because it had too much foul language," he said. "That your moral authorities don't always have your best interests in mind," he told Mother Jones magazine. "I think Matt likes the fact that this is more his baby," Rich Moore, supervising director of Rough Draft, the company that animates "Futurama," told Spin magazine. They were created when James L. Brooks, the producer of "The Tracey Ullman Show," asked Mr. Groening to create animated segments for the program. In 2002, he won the Reuben Award by the National Cartoonists Society for his work, Life in Hell. Groening won a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 14, 2012. [38] After Groening ended the strip, the Center for Cartoon Studies commissioned a poster that was presented to Groening in honor of his work. Now, though, "The Simpsons" offices at Fox, housed in what looks like a cheap motel, run on a routine, and he has eased off a bit. In 2011, he married artist Augustina Picasso, with whom he had been in a relationship for four years. In high school, he drew cartoons for the school newspaper until he was kicked off the staff. Many members of the Simpson family are named for members of his own family: Homer, Marge, Maggie, Lisa and Patty. [26][32] Vowell also gave Groening his own weekly music column, "Sound Mix," in 1982. They had 2 children. The duo left the newspaper company and Matt Groening founded the Acme Features Syndicate that distributed Life in Hell.