What were you thinking? Matt Groening: I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, “Life in Hell,” for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing “The Tracey Ullman ...

A fun piece of trivia: Matt Groening named characters on "The Simpsons" after his family. His father was named Homer, and he has two little sisters named Lisa and Maggie. His mother was named ...