Matthew Abram Groening (Portland, February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, television producer and writer, primarily known for being the creator of The Simpsons. He is also the creator of Futurama. In 2017, the NETFLIX platform announced its contracting to develop a new animated TV broadcast exclusively by this platform. The series, which will be titled "Disenchanment" will consist of two seasons each composed by ten episodes, and will see the light in 2018. According to statements from the platform and Groening, the series will have as an argument the misadventures of Bean, a princess of an imaginary fantastic world with serious problems with alcohol. He was the author of the weekly comic strip Life in the Underworld, which Groening published in the weekly magazine Licorice Pizza, a store where he worked. He made his first sale as a professional cartoonist to Wet magazine in 1978. Matt himself decided to put an end to it in 2010. Life in Hell attracted the attention of James L. Brooks. In 1985, he contacted Groening for the purpose of working on an animation project for the FOX show The Tracey Ullman Show. Originally, Brooks wanted Groening to adapt his characters from Life in Hell for the program. Fearing losing his copyrights, Groening decided to come up with something new and created an animated family, the Simpsons, naming its members as their own parents and sisters, while Bart is an anagram of brat, which means bratty. would become a series: The Simpsons, which has since produced 574 episodes in 26 seasons. In 1997, Groening partnered with David X. Cohen and created Futurama, an animated series about life in the year 3000, which debuted in 1999. After four years on the air, the program was canceled by Fox in 2003, but Comedy Central commissioned 16 new episodes to make four DVD movies, which were released in 2008. Groening has won twelve Primetime Emmy Awards, ten for The Simpsons and two for Futurama as well as a British Comedy Award in the category "Outstanding Work in Comedy" in 2004. In 2002 he won the Reuben Prize of the National Cartoonist Society for his work on Life in Hell.
