Matt Groening was born on 15th February 1954, I Portland, Oregonb, Groening grew up an artistic child in Portland, and attended Evergreen State College in Olmpia , Washington, a non-traditional public university that he has called a haven for “ self-disciplined creative weirdoes.” [1]
Groening went to animation after meeting fellow Evergreen student and cartoonist Lynda Barry. He was inspired by Barry’s ability to make a living selling her somics to alternative papers, and influenced by other underground cartoonists like Robert Crumb, Groening graduated from college and moved to los Angeles in 1973 to work as a writer. [1] After spending a few years working miserable part-time jobs, Groening sold his comic strip “Life