Born in 1954, Groening started drawing monsters for his neighborhood Creature Club as early as in fourth grade. After graduating from high-school, where he "attempted to rewrite the constitution to give himself absolute power", the "mordant alternative" cartoonist opted to attend Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington because of the institution's "no-grades, no-exams policy".

"Then in college, I studied Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. [...] You study that in the winter, in a rain forest in Olympia, Washington, and you get very moody," Groening points out the reflection of the disillusioned and ironic zeitgeist of the 1970s in his personality and work. Upon graduating from college in 1977, the man who originally intended to become a professional writer soon celebrated his first success as a cartoonist, when his Life in Hell comic strip debuted in the Los Angeles magazine Wet in 1978. Featuring "crudely drawn angst-filled characters", such as the two rabbits Binky and his......

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Title: Simpsons
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