* 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.

Along with that of co-host Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, Costa's commentary of the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremonies has come under fierce criticism, with Costas being described as making " a series of jingoistic remarks, including a joke about Idi Amin when Uganda's team appeared " and the combined commentary as being " ignorant " and " banal ".

After losing each of the first two games by two runs, the Rockies opened up a 5 – 2 lead against Matt Cain in the finale of the series on August 30.

In a pivotal swing game that would either see the Rockies leave San Francisco with a 1. 5 game lead or a 3. 5 game lead, Colorado once again built a large lead against Matt Cain in the finale of the series on September 16.

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.

Along with Matt Frewer and W. Morgan Sheppard, Pays was one of only three cast members to also appear in the American-made series that followed.

* Madness, a Flash animated series created by Matt " Krinkels " Jolly, hosted on Newgrounds.

* 21-Walter M. " Matt " Jefferies, American art director ( Star Trek series ); designer of the Starship Enterprise.

According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia, the registry number " NCC-1701 " was devised by Matt Jefferies, art director of the first Star Trek series, inspired by an old science fiction cover that Gene Roddenberry liked, with a starship flying through space.

Donald Hamilton published Death of a Citizen ( 1960 ) and The Wrecking Crew ( 1960 ), beginning the series featuring Matt Helm, a CIA assassin and counter-intelligence agent.

Two gamebooks were published as part of the Nintendo Adventure Books series by Archway and both written by Matt Wayne.

Among the best known examples were the two ' Derek Flint ' films starring James Coburn, and the Matt Helm series with Dean Martin.

The early script notes that he was the son of Commodore Matt Decker, who had been featured in " The Doomsday Machine " ( an episode of the original television series ), and would " command some landing parties ", anticipating the TNG situation where the first officer usually took down away teams.

* Sandman Mystery Theatre ( 1993 – 1999 ): A 70-issue series written by Matt Wagner and Steven T. Seagle featuring the Golden Age Sandman Wesley Dodds in a film-noir like setting.

It bears similarities to a series of installations performed by New Zealand and Detroit based artists Alastair Galbraith and Matt De Genaro, recorded on their 1998 record Wire Music and 2006 follow-up Long Wires in Dark Museums, Vol.

* Uncle Traveling Matt ( performed by Dave Goelz )-Gobo's famous explorer uncle, spends most of the series in " Outer Space " ( the Fraggles ' perspective of the human world ) and sends postcards back to his nephew describing his adventures there.

Bakshi was subsequently contacted by HBO, which was looking to launch the first animated series specifically for adults, an interest stirred by discussions involving a series based upon Trey Parker and Matt Stone's video Christmas card, Jesus vs. Santa.

The ninth comic launched at Vertigo's 1993 debut was the Vertigo Preview, showcasing the concurrently released titles, as well as J. M. DeMatteis ' Mercy, Ann Nocenti's Kid Eternity ( an ongoing series spun off from the earlier Morrison-penned miniseries ), Dick Foreman's Black Orchid ( an on-going series spun off from the Gaiman / McKean miniseries ) and Matt Wagner's Sandman Mystery Theatre.

* Throughout the presidential election year of 2008, BBC Newsnight correspondent Matt Frei produced a series of television segments in Culpeper, characterizing the city as an exemplar of small town America.

Matt Groening's creation gained its own half-hour series in 1989, the first prime-time animated series since The Flintstones.

* Sandman Mystery Theatre # 1-70 ( solo Sandman series written by Matt Wagner, set in the 1930s and early 1940s ; not strictly in regular DCU continuity )