Groening Feared Failure
THE SIMPSONS creator MATT GROENING nearly quit a career in animation after his father told him he would be unsuccessful.
The Emmy award-winning cartoonist was often criticized by his father, Homer, for lacking in artistic talent so turned to a career in writing.
Groening moved to Los Angeles to pursue a writing career and created the comic strip Life in Hell. Hit TV show The Simpsons took off 10 years later.
He says, “My father, who was a cartoonist, told me, ‘Your drawing skills aren’t that great, you will never make a living with your cartoons.’
“So I felt I would make my living through some kind of writing – I didn’t think I would make a living as a cartoonist because I didn’t feel I drew well enough.”
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