* 1954 – Matt Groening, American cartoonist

Matthew Abram " Matt " Groening ( ; born February 15, 1954 ) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer.

* 2002: Matt Groening, Life in Hell

Other members include Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount, Jr., Matt Groening, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Sam Barry, and Greg Iles.

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

Marge was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks ' office.

Matt Groening first conceived Marge and the rest of the Simpson family in 1986 in the lobby of producer James L. Brooks ' office.

Matt Groening believes that episodes featuring Marge are among the most difficult episodes to write.

One of these performances was featured as part of the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival curated by Matt Groening in May 2010 in Minehead, England.

" The show's creator Matt Groening has called Smith very similar to Lisa: " Yeardley has strong moral views about her character.

Series creator Matt Groening is a fan of the band and they appeared on the show at his personal request.

Cartoonist and writer Matt Groening tells of listening to Trout Mask Replica at the age of 15 and thinking " that it was the worst thing I'd ever heard.

Homer was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks ' office.

Matt Groening has stated that he decided to have Homer work at the power plant because of the potential for Homer to create havoc.

Matt Groening conceived Homer and the rest of the Simpson family in 1986 in the lobby of producer James L. Brooks ' office.

Matt Groening strongly disliked them and they were eventually dropped.

The stamps, designed by Matt Groening, were made available for purchase on May 7, 2009.

Cartoonist Matt Groening created and designed her while waiting to meet James L. Brooks.

Matt Groening first conceived Lisa and the rest of the Simpson family in 1986 in the lobby of producer James L. Brooks's office.

" Matt Groening has described Smith as being very similar to Lisa: " Yeardley has strong moral views about her character.

Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, wanted to have a character that was " really cranky " and old, and who complained a lot and invented stories to tell to children, so he created Grampa.

Matt Groening has claimed that Hans Moleman was inspired by Tex Avery's Droopy, who shares many of Moleman's deadpan and unassuming mannerisms.

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening told TV Guide that " He was just written as a mad scientist character until Hank did the voice, and suddenly he became this nutty professor persona.

Krusty was created by cartoonist Matt Groening and partially inspired by Rusty Nails, a television clown from Groening's hometown of Portland, Oregon.

The character was partially inspired by TV clown " Rusty Nails " whom both The Simpsons creator Matt Groening and director Brad Bird watched as children while growing up in Portland, Oregon.

Much like the 2007 play-in game when it was not clear whether or not Matt Holliday had touched home plate with the game-winning run, there was question as to whether Barmes actually caught the ball, as photos later emerged showing the ball apparently sliding down his arm as he went to the ground.

In the late 1990s, Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh founded the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York and later they founded one in Los Angeles, each with an accompanying improv / sketch comedy school.

In 1932 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in the comedy division for producing The Loud Mouth ( with Matt McHugh, in the sports-heckler role later taken in Columbia Pictures remakes by Charley Chase and Shemp Howard ), and he won in the novelty division for his film Wrestling Swordfish.

The only original cast retained for the U. S. version series were Matt Frewer ( Max Headroom / Edison Carter ) and Amanda Pays ( Theora Jones ); a third original cast member, W. Morgan Sheppard, joined the series as " Blank Reg " in later episodes.

Two plays later, Bears fullback Matt Suhey scored on an 11-yard touchdown run to increase the lead 13-3.

In addition to Amos, the group was composed of Steve Caton ( who would later play guitars on all her subsequent albums until 1999 ), drummer Matt Sorum, bass player Brad Cobb and, for a short time, keyboardist Jim Tauber.

By chance, one week later, Sgt Matt O ' Mara of No. 453 Squadron RAAF also crash landed on Bintan, and arranged for them to be collected.

Their second guitarist Matt Odmark joined some time later.

This " slap " bass style was later used by such artists as Les Claypool ( of Primus ), Bootsy Collins, Louis Johnson, Mark King, Flea, Tim Commerford ( of Rage Against The Machine ), Peter Hook, Mike Mills of R. E. M., Victor Wooten, Jonas Hellborg, Kim Clarke of Defunkt, Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke, John Norwood Fisher, P-Nut, Danny McCormack, Matt Noveskey, Dirk Lance, and Pino Palladino.

Matt Borruso and Christopher Douglas later reemerged in Loudspeaker, a New York – based noise rock group.

The band originally consisted of Amos, Steve Caton, Matt Sorum ( later of Guns N ' Roses ), and bassist Brad Cobb.

Matt later left the band and they hired drummer D. J.

Years later, according to the late Mrs. W. D. Bruton of Thorp, a marker was placed over the grave by Matt Pointer, who rode the area with his cattle, to mark it as a white woman's grave so it would not be vandalized.

The Legion ( featuring more of its membership ), along with the Fatal Five, later appeared in a 2006 episode of Justice League Unlimited entitled " Far From Home " with Googy Gress as Bouncing Boy and Matt Czuchry as Brainiac 5.

Buffett didn't comment immediately after the incident, but discussed it with Matt Lauer on The Today Show three days later.

* May 7 – Matt Helm was shown as a pilot episode in the US but the actual television series would not be shown until later that same year

MacDonnell later claimed, " Much of Matt Dillon's character grew out of Bill Conrad.

In the end, the primary roles were all recast, with Arness taking the lead role of Marshal Matt Dillon ( on the recommendation of Wayne, who also introduced the pilot ); Dennis Weaver playing Chester Goode ; Milburn Stone being cast as Dr. G. " Doc " Adams ( later Galen " Doc " Adams ); and Amanda Blake taking on the role of Miss Kitty Russell.

Matt Dillon spent his early years in foster care, knew the Bible, was a wayward, brawling cowboy, and later mentored by a caring lawman.

A later 1956 episode begins with Chester pointing out to Matt ( who had been out of town ) a new sign under the Long Branch Saloon sign stating " Russell & Pence, Proprietors.

Although early film episodes showed her descending from her second-floor rooms in the saloon with Matt, or showed her or one of her girls leading a cowboy up to those same rooms, these scenes disappeared later on, and viewers were guided to see Miss Kitty just as a kindhearted businesswoman.

Cartoonist Matt Groening later gave the middle initial " J.

dpkg was originally created by Matt Welsh, Carl Streeter and Ian Murdock, first as a Perl program, and then later the main part was rewritten in C by Ian Jackson in 1993.