Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening, cartoonist, screenwriter and producer was
born in Portland, Oregon, the middle of five children. He attended Ainsworth
Elementary School and Lincoln High School. From 1972 to 1977, Groening
attended Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington. Groening is the
creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television
series, The Simpsons and Futurama. Groening has won 11 Primetime
Emmy Awards, ten for The Simpsons and one for Futurama.

The  NBC Television  version of BLONDIE premiered on  this date
in 1957. The sitcom starred (above) Arthur Lake as Dagwood
Bumstead and Pamela Britton as his wife Blondie. The show had
a short run till July 5, 1957. 

Marvel comic book writer and producer Stan Lee was inducted into
the Will Isner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby
Hall of Fame in 1995. Lee is the former president and chairman of
Marvel Comics.

      December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966

The animated character Woody Woodpecker
made his screen debut in “Knock Knock,”
a cartoon produced by Walter Lantz and
distributed by Universal Pictures.

                    Walter Lantz