The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is an aspiring series of humorous books, written by American cartoonist and online game designer Jeff Kinney. They follow through the illustrations of Greg Heffley, a male student in middle-school explaining his everyday adventures through his detailed drawings and simple notes. It first started as Igdoof in the early 1990s and after its failure, he made up of which was a comic about a middle school weakling called Greg Heffley. He started writing ideas and later uploaded them to funbrain.com in 2004-2005, where it got 20 million views and was later made into a book series, even so that movies were also released. The Heffley family apparently is based on the family of it's creator Jeff Kinney.