MATT GROENING is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, producer, animator, author, musician, comedian, and voice actor. He is the creator of two successful television series, The Simpsons and Futurama
The serie tells the daily life of a family. This family consist of 5 members : the mother Marge, the father Homer, the son Bart, the daughter Lisa and the smallest dauhter Maggie.With them Primer Ayudante de Santa Claus the dog and Bola de Nieve II the cat live. this serie takes place in Springfield.It explain the daliy life of this characters and their freinds, neighbours, colleagues and family.
The city in which takes place the serie is called springfield because Matt Groening grew in Portland that is near to Springfield of Oregon. When he was young he saw a series that was in Spingfield so Matt was excited because he thought that it was the city that was near to his city,when he grew he realized that was a fictitious name. matt groening has based on the name of his family members to create the characters. his father´s and his son´s name was Homer so he put to the father of this family Homer. the same happened with the small sisters of matt groening, their names were Lisa and Maggie, his mother was called Margaret so because of this the mother of he family is called Marge. bart doesn´t refer to him, the word bart is an adaptation of “brat”, an english word whose meaning is mocoso. The rest of the caharacters names are based on the streets in which he lived when he was a child.