Talk:Matt Groening

message: Groening also had a series of cartoon books based on a stip he did called either Life in Hell or Life Is Hell.  The books had titles like "School Is Hell".  Anyone know more about the strip?  He drew a one-eared bunny and had two gay characters, Akbar and Jeff, if I recall. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.138.168.163  (talk • contribs) 19:59, 28 July 2005
Yup, Life in Hell.  Bunch of books, Love is Hell, Work is Hell, School is Hell, Childhood is Hell, Big Book of Hell, Huge Book of Hell, a few others, all really funny stuff.  It was about the bunny protagonist Binky, his one-eared son Bongo, and his girlfriend Sheba, as well as the relationship and entrepreneurial adventures of Akbar and Jeff.--STLEric 08:01, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Life Is Hell

message: Wikipedia:List_of_encyclopedia_topics/Biographies_G2 (section 14, number 41) lists him as having the middle name akbar, and so does this webpage, is this right? Martin - The non-blue non-moose 10:07, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems unlikely. Probably, someone down the line got it mixed up with Akbar and Jeff.  RMoloney (talk) 16:03, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Akbar????

message: Who says his name is pronounced like raining? On today's episode of The Simpsons, Homer pronounced it like owning, but then again it is Homer. Theshibboleth 06:32, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, and that's funnier than "raining"...  AnonMoos 18:09, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Also Troy McClure Pronounced it like "raining" when he hosted The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular. --MJHankel 22:33, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Several references to the "gray-ning" pronunciation in a Google Books search list of results for search of keywords "Groening" +"pronounce" here: http://books.google.com/books?q=Groening+%2Bpronounced&btnG=Search+Books (In case that helps any.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.53.58.159 (talk) 21:29, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: Matt's profile here sure gets vandalized a lot. Why is that do you think?--Kiyosuki 09:13, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Dude...that is so old. Your insulting yourself by using that. lol --Kiyosuki 12:59, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

text: This page actually isn't that bad compared to some (like Futurama) but yes, to do that you need to bring it up at Requests for page protection, though this page probably doesn't need it, see WP:SEMI. Stardust8212 04:15, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What is up with all this page's vandalism?

message: Anyone know how much his net worth is and how much money the simpsons, liscensing, syndication rights, etc have made him?? I heard 150 million but believe it to be far more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.194.161.202  (talk • contribs) 22:05, 14 June 2006
:When describing wealth, "millionaire" used to describe the circa-top-2% of wealthy people. Then "multimillionaire." Now it goes by large amounts. The $150 Million benchmark for entertainers was most likely before the $25 Million "gold standard" set by Mike Myers. In 2008 it is about $250 million and will probably be a billion by 2025. "Filthy stinking rich" just doesn't describe it any longer, though as regards Mr. Groening's net worth, I'd suggest that to be pretty accurate..74.13.33.29 (talk) 04:13, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Net Worth

message: Does anyone know what college Groening attended? I heard at one point he was at a Christian college for like a semester... seems far-fetched, but I thought I'd ask anyway... Johnny Panic 8:35, 3 July 2006
::The Evergreen State College --Rubber cat 02:22, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Education

message: I heard somewhere that he is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.49.6.197  (talk • contribs) 07:00, 20 September 2006
::oh — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rubber cat  (talk • contribs) 07:09, 20 September 2006
::He is _not_ a Sigma Chi -- check it out on the Talk:Sigma Chi#Matt Groening page. Firedancer414 21:25, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sigma Chi

message: The year Groening received the Reuben Award is not consistent between this article, the National Cartoonists Society article and the official Reuben Awards site.
Both the official Reuben Award site and the National Cartoonists Society article state that Groening received the award in 2002, where the Matt Groening article states 2003.
Is there a reason why this article states 2003, or is it, as I suspect, a mistake?
AaronRC 11:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reuben Award - 2002 or 2003?

message: You know, I was curious about the fact that it seemed to always be under construction so I decided to research it. Unless the very first release in 2000 was diferent, it has been "under construction" ever sense it started in 2000. I checked it on Archive.org, here is the link to it if you want to see for yourself . I just figured that it is somewhat notable due to the fact that it has not just been under construction for a long time, but rather sense its inception. (unless those first two ones <which are missing> were actually diferent). --MJHankel 22:39, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, in this interview from a while back , Groening points out that he has reserved this site so that he can archive his comic strips, though he also stated that he wanted to do it when he felt ready to get really into it. --MJHankel 22:47, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: website??

message: It says in the Carrer section that the comic strip Life In Hell is still in over 250 weekly newspapers.  What is the source for this? Does anyone know any specific newspapers with the strip? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Keshidragon (talk • contribs) 21:31, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Newspaper with Life In Hell?

message: Matt Groening was born in Portland Oregon.  I can cite many other sources to attest to this.  Somebody should change the article.
http://www.answers.com/topic/matt-groening?cat=entertainment
http://www.nndb.com/people/361/000025286/
http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/information/mattgroening.shtml
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004981/bio
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800161956/bio
http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Matt_Groening/189573
:And for a little more authorative source:
"Groening (rhymes with "raining" or "complaining") was born in Portland (or as he puts it, "near Beaverton")."
:From an interview: Baker, Jeff. GROENING, RHYMES WITH REIGNING. The Oregonian, March 14, 2004. Aboutmovies 23:27, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it used to be Portland in the article, but some anon changed it about a month back and I hadn't noticed it until it was pointed out, so thanks. -- Scorpion0422 00:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: NPR said he was born in Springfield this morning. I hope they weren't using this article as a source... Katr67 16:47, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Matt Groening not born in springfield Oregon

message: Given that he is a cartoonist by trade, there should be some mention of his style. i.e. the "Simpsonized" form - you can look at a drawing of any celebrity without context, and know that they were a character in The Simpsons. --Jay(Talk) 18:43, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Groening's style

message: If his family is Dutch, as the Mennonite background seems to suggest, then Groening should probably be pronounced [gruniŋ] ("grooning"), at least in modern Standard Dutch (where the digraph oe stands for IPA [u]). But it may well be that his family spoke a dialect different from Standard Dutch, so...KelilanK (talk) 01:13, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, a lot of Mennonites are German too. And Groening himself pronounces it Greyning. -- Scorpion0422 01:24, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Dutch" in Mennonite Dutch is from "Deutsch" (German). This common mistake irritates us Dutch people to no end, regardless of any Dutch ancestry Mr. Groening has, to his immense genealogical credit. Plus, in Dutch the "roe" is pronounced with a sound unpronounceable by any person not raised as a natural Dutch speaker. The infamous "throat clearing" sound.74.13.33.29 (talk) 04:23, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, the old German "oe" has now been replaced by "ö" in many instances, so in a German-speaking country his name might be spelled "Gröning". IPA [ø] (Close-mid front rounded vowel, where the closest example in English would be in "bird", as pronounced in New Zealand), like the previous chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder, whose family name was previously spelled Schroeder. In French the same vowel sound is spelled "eu", or simply the letter "e" ; examples : heureux (happy), cheval (horse), bleu (blue). --Jerome Potts (talk) 11:56, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation again

message: We have him listed at List of Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists, so we'd better decide whether he is or he isn't. Carolynparrishfan (talk) 01:29, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Groening himself has said he's currently agnostic. However, I think he grew up as a Unitarian. -- Scorpion0422 01:42, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: But being an agnostic is not the same as not being a UU. It is quite possible to be both. Carolynparrishfan (talk) 23:00, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unitarian

message: I am a little surprise that there is no mention of Matt's political stances. On many of the DVD commentaries, Matt has said he left leaning and liberal (even saying in the commentary for The Cartridge Family he described himself as "left wing anti-gun" and wanted the episode to have a message that guns are bad). In the commentary for The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular, they also said most (but not all) of the writers were liberal. TJ Spyke 12:54, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Political stance

message: According to Gale's Contemporary Authors, Akbar really is Groening's middle name. What is the source for Abram? The first ref doesn't work for me, so it's not clear what information that included. Zagalejo^^^ 22:26, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Middle name

message: Spotted a piece on a newspaper site where Groening he was influenced by The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/WeekendEdition/2008/09/26/pf-6891556.html Include in Early life section of Matt Groening article? --EarthFurst (talk) 18:33, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, he was very heavily influenced by R&B — the middle initials for Homer and Bart are both J, just like Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose, all of them tributes to Jay Ward. I remember reading an interview with Groening where he discusses this, in this book if I'm not mistaken. . Scartol • Tok 15:55, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Matt influence by Rocky and Bullwinkle

message: Does his religion really belong in the infobox? sixtynine • spill it • 00:24, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If Mr.Groening has considered it important enough to share this information, then why not list it in the infobox?COGITO ERGO SUM (talk) 23:09, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it's extremely inconsistent.  The infobox summaries generally contain the same basic info for everyone, with a few misc things that may be relevant to their profession/reason for being famous.  Groening's career has no relation to his religion and other cartoonists and TV show producers do not have similar information in their boxes. This immediately jumped out at me as being very weird. --173.53.217.212 (talk) 01:52, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, it looks wrong (gossipy, tabloid, fan club, etc.). I suppose an Infobox Philosopher or an Infobox Theologian could include such a parm, but other than that kind, i think no. I mean, while we're at it, why not height, weight, favorite brand of <you name it>, breast cup size of women who are neither models or porn stars, just because they might've have revealed it once somewhere ? --Jerome Potts (talk) 12:11, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Matt Groening religion

message: This article has been added to the category Mennonite Writers. This seems wrong on 2 counts: 1) is a cartoonist a writer? and 2) the subject is seemingly an agnostic, and there is no evidence that even his father (his only connection with the Mennonite faith) continued practicing it in adult life. Can we get rid of this? DJ Clayworth (talk) 19:23, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Going, going...gone. DJ Clayworth (talk) 17:25, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

text: I also removed the category underground cartoonist because I saw no indication that he ever was one. If we are talking about the time he sold his cartoons in the corner of a store, that doesn't make him an underground cartoonist it amkes him a struggling cartoonist or an unpublished cartoonist. DJ Clayworth (talk) 18:54, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Mennonite writer

message: I'm pretty sure Matt's Mother WAS Jewish!!!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.149.118.36 (talk) 11:09, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Matt's Mother WAS Jewish

message: I don't think referring to his father Homer as "German American" is an appropriate description when he was born and raised in Canada. Furthermore, being raised Mennonite is not the same as being of German heritage. I think this section should be revised to more appropriately reflect this. 128.100.66.244 (talk) 19:22, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: German American father - born and raised in Canada

message: I've attempted to trim the list of occupations listed in the opening sentence and the infobox to only those things that the subject has done routinely and is known for, removing items he has done only incidentally in connection with those occupations, or as a hobby. For example, he has never been involved in the production work of animating the programs he is involved in, his voice acting bits are less than many Simpson's "celebrity guest stars", he's only a "comedian" in the broad sense that he writes humor, and the band he sometimes plays with are a hobby/celebrity-fundraising project rather than a professional pursuit. Groening is not known for these things, and cluttering up the opening with them not only gets in the way of what he is actually known for, it's misleading because of the undue weight it gives to trivial items on his IMDB page. -Jason A. Quest (talk) 20:08, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Occupation

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message: In the personal life section it reads, "Groening was mentioned in a lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre over allegedly being forced by sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to massage his Groening's feet"
Shouldn't it be, "Groening was mentioned in a lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre over allegedly being forced by sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to massage his feet" or "Groening was mentioned in a lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre over allegedly being forced by sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to massage Groening's feet"?
I would edit it myself but the page is semi-protected — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.82.77.229 (talk) 00:07, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  grammar error?  

message: Groening and Deborah Caplan married in 1986[27] and had two sons together, Homer (who goes by Will) and Abe,[44] both of whom Groening occasionally portrays as rabbits in Life in Hell. The couple divorced in 1999.
They met at the alternative newsweekly, The LA Reader, in 1982. At the time Deborah was the advertising manager while Matt drew the popular weekly cartoon strip, Life in Hell. Deborah saw Matt’s u recognized brilliance and wanted to promote him to a wider audience. She left The Reader to start Life in Hell Cartoon Co. and Acme Features Syndicate, developing Matt’s cartoons into a line of quirky novelty items including notecards, mugs, t-shirts, and posters and selling them through mail order ads in the 250 free weeklies that now carried his cartoon, in novelty shops and at the San Diego Comic-on. In 1984, the now couple self-published Love Is Hell, a compilation of his cartoons, and in 1986, after marrying, Work Is Hell. 
Both book rights were soon sold to RandomHouse for a wider distribution. As Matt’s business partner and manager Deborah produced book signing events and art exhibits of his original art in galleries and comic book stores on then-super hip Melrose Avenue. The business closed in 1989 when Matt began his career in television with the TV show, The Simpsons. 47.154.207.107 (talk) 23:33, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:46, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update with relevant detail 

message: Is the 1943 birth date for his sister a typo. Should it be 1953? Wis2fan (talk) 04:32, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth date.