The Simpsons was created by American cartoonist Matt Groening, with the television series then developed for Fox alongside producers James L. Brooks and Sam Simon.

Who made The Simpsons?

  • Matt Groening came up with the Simpson family in the mid‑1980s, originally as short animated sketches for The Tracey Ullman Show.
  • James L. Brooks invited Groening to pitch animated shorts, which led to the creation of the family instead of using Groening’s earlier comic strip Life in Hell.
  • Sam Simon helped develop the shorts into the full half‑hour TV series that premiered in 1989 on Fox and became a long‑running animated sitcom.

Quick timeline

  • 1987: The Simpsons debut as short animated segments on The Tracey Ullman Show.
  • 1989: The Simpsons launches as a standalone half‑hour series on Fox, credited as created by Matt Groening and developed with James L. Brooks and Sam Simon.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.