Matt Groening is the creator and executive producer of the Emmy® Award–winning series Futurama and The Simpsons, as well as creator of the animated television series Disenchantment. He is the man responsible for bringing animation back to prime time and creating an immortal nuclear family. In addition to supervising the ongoing production of his television series, he wrote and illustrated Life in Hell, a weekly syndicated comic strip, from 1977 to 2012.