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 L.
Brooks, looking for a filler in the television show, The Tracey Ullman Show (1987), turned towards a framed "Life in Hell" strip on his wall and contacted Groening.
The animated shorts that Groening created were The Simpsons (1989).
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