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Matt Groening

Born

in Portland, Oregon, The United States

February 15, 1954

Website

http://www.mattgroening.com/

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Matthew Abram Groening is an American cartoonist, television producer and writer from Portland, Oregon.

Groening is best known as the creator of The Simpsons. He is also the creator of Futurama and the author of the weekly comic strip Life in Hell. Groening distributed Life in Hell in the book corner of Licorice Pizza, a record store in which he worked.

He made his first professional cartoon sale to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978. The cartoon is still carried in 250 weekly newspapers.

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	The Big Book of Hell by Matt Groening, Cindy Vance (Designer) 4.12 avg rating — 4,481 ratings — published 1990 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bart Simpson's Guide to Life: A Wee Handbook for the Perplexed 3.90 avg rating — 3,103 ratings — published 1993 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Is Hell 4.11 avg rating — 2,692 ratings — published 1982 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Childhood Is Hell 4.14 avg rating — 2,645 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family (The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, #1) by Matt Groening, Ray Richmond 4.10 avg rating — 1,783 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	School is Hell 4.24 avg rating — 1,472 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Work Is Hell 4.18 avg rating — 1,289 ratings — published 1985 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Simpsons Forever!: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family...Continued (The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 800 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simpsons Comics Extravaganza 3.93 avg rating — 505 ratings — published 1994 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Simpsons Beyond Forever!: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family...Still Continued (The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, #3) by Matt Groening, Jesse Leon McCann 4.14 avg rating — 417 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Life in Hell (11 books)
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The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family (5 books)
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Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror (32 books)
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The Simpsons Library of Wisdom (10 books)
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3.87 avg rating — 1,554 ratings

Bart Simpson (7 books)
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3.95 avg rating — 1,236 ratings

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“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

tags: family, humor, language, satire, simpsons, social-commentary

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“Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you!
— Russ Cargill”
― Matt Groening

tags: humour, simpsons

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“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”
― Matt Groening, The Big Book of Hell

tags: humor, love, metaphor, simpsons

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