Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Matt Groening did not particularly like school, which is what originally turned him towards drawing. In the mid-1980s, he moved to Los Angeles and started drawing a comic strip named Life in Hell which eventually became published in the newspaper where he worked. In 1988, James Brooks, looking for a filler in the television show The Tracy Ullman show, turned towards a framed Life in Hell strip on his wall and contacted Groening. The animated shorts that Groeni ...[Read Story]
