The Art of Futurama

Matt Groening is the creator and executive producer of the Emmy Award–winning series The Simpsons, as well as the creator of the animated television series Futurama and Disenchantment. In addition to supervising the ongoing production of these television series, Groening wrote and illustrated Life in Hell, a weekly syndicated comic strip from 1977 to 2012. He lives in Los Angeles. David X. Cohen is a longtime collaborator of Matt Groening and an animation mainstay, having written for The Simpsons in its late-middle-early days before becoming the head writer, showrunner, and executive producer of Futurama. Cohen has won four Primetime Emmy Awards, two of which are for Futurama as “Outstanding Animated Program.” Claudia Katz is the producer of Futurama and executive vice president of Rough Draft Studios, where she has also produced Disenchantment, Drawn Together, Full English, Looney Tunes, Napoleon Dynamite, The Simpsons Movie, Star Wars: Clone Wars I & II, and more. She has received an Annecy Award for her work on The Maxx, Emmy and Hugo Awards for Futurama, Emmy Awards for Star Wars: Clone Wars I & II, and Annie Awards for Bender’s Big Score, Beast With A Billion Backs, and Into the Wild Green Yonder.