Life in Hell is a strip comic by Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons
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Histori
Life in Hell started in 1977 as a self-published comic book, Groening, used to describe life in Los Angeles to his friends. It was inspired by his move to the city that year; in an interview with Playboy, Groening commented on his arrival: "I arrived in Los Angeles on a Friday night in August, that's about a hundred and two degrees; my car broke down quickly Lane of the Hollywood Freeway while I was listening to a drunk DJ who was giving his last program at a local rock station and loudly denouncing the station's management. And then I have a series of bad jobs. "In comic books, Groening attacks what many young adults find: school, work, and love, describing it as" every ex-campus protester, every Boomer idealist, about the existence of an adult in the 80s. "
Groening photocopied and distributed the magazine to friends, and also sold it for two dollars a copy at the corner of punk from the record store where he worked, Licorice Pizza on Sunset Boulevard. These magazines contain comic strips, comedy sketches, letters, and photo collages. The magazine cover was also funny: the first issue saw Binky standing in a haze and declaring, "What you see is what you breathe." Groening also made real photographs on the cover, such as pictures from Jules Verne's books or family room photos of his family.
An editor of Wet (magazine) bought one of the zines and liked it, and offered Matt Groening a place in the magazine, soon after Life in Hell debuted as a comic strip on avant-garde Wet in 1978, where Groening made his first professional cartoon sale. The first strip, entitled "Forbidden Words", appears in the September/October issue. Popular underground, Life in Hell is taken by Los Angeles Reader (an alternative weekly newspaper where Groening also works as a maker of letters, editors, outboard artists and music critics) in 1980, where it began to emerge every week. Then the publisher from Reader Jane Levine says Groening arrived at the editor-in-chief office of James Vowell one day, showing him "a ridiculous cartoon with a rabbit with one ear." After Groening left, Vowell came out of his office and said, "This guy will be famous someday."
The character designs for Akbar and Jeff are actually Groening's failed attempts to attract Charlie Brown from Peanuts, which is why two characters wear Charlie Brown T-shirts. In a 1999 interview, Groening said that he added Akbar and Jeff as characters to the comic to pacify his girlfriend. At the beginning of the comic, he uses Binky and his wife to reflect the arguments he has with him, and he becomes annoyed with Groening because he feels he portrays himself worse than himself. The addition of Akbar and Jeff are twin-like it is meant to act as an anonymity mask to hide who is in the argument. However, according to Groening, he still tells him, "You think you're Akbar, but you're really Jeff."
In a 1991 interview on Groes, Groening said that Life in Hell was done entirely by himself ("Matt Groening is pure and simple") and that the strip is often weird or very different every week because after all he felt at the time of comic.
The series is often serialized, discussing topics such as "Love is Hell", a 1984 "miniseries 13-chapter" focusing on love and relationships. In November of that year, Groening's girlfriend (and coworkers at Reader ) Deborah Caplan offered to publish "Love is Hell" in book form. The book was a success underground, selling 22,000 copies in its first two prints. Soon afterwards, Caplan and Groening abandoned the Readers and compiled Life in Hell Co., which handles syndication and merchandising for Groening's projects.
Life in Hell reached the attention of Hollywood producer James L. Brooks, who received a strip - "The Los Angeles Way of Death" from 1982 - as a gift from fellow producer Polly Platt. In 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of developing a series of short animated dramas, called "bumper", for The Tracey Ullman Show. Initially, Brooks wanted Groening to adjust his Life in Hell character to the show. For fear of losing property rights to his character, Groening instead created a whole new set of characters; Simpsons.
Because television started putting more demands on time, however, Groening almost exclusively featured single panels or 16-panel grids where Akbar and Jeff exchanged short japs. This period also sees an increase in the autobiographic strip, probably because Groening is influenced by growing trends in alternative comics.
Television has also made the strip "quite safe for a number of newspapers to print," according to Groening, who claims he has not "stripped the strip at all, other than no longer using dirty words" as a concession to a daily newspaper carrying strips.
On December 7, 1998, Groening registered the mattgroening.com domain to publish online Life in Hell online; However, the website has remained "under construction" ever since, although Groening insists that he will "work it out... [when he is] ready to wade regularly." On May 3rd, 2013, the domain has expired.
Groening decided in 2007, after the 2006 US election results, to write "Life Is Swell" above the comic instead of "Life in Hell". Although Groening previously stated that he would never give up on strip comics, in 2009 he indicated that due to difficult times for print newspapers and his constant involvement with The Simpsons and Futurama >, he might one day be dropping the strip. Three years later, Groening announces the conclusion of the strip and the new strip last runs on June 16, 2012. The last strip shows Akbar or Jeff dancing naked, while others tell him to stop. At the end of the street, she gives up and dances with her, saying, "Well, I've tried."
The strip has been published in his hometown of Portland since 1986. They have missed several strips because of a political joke that the paper did not like.
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Format
After the success of Love Is Hell , more book collections are followed, including Work Is Hell and Childhood Is Hell . To date, 15 books have been released.
In addition to the books, the comic also spawned T-shirts, greeting cards, posters, coffee cups, and a short newsletter called "Life in Hell Times". There is also an annual calendar.
In the late 1980s, Groening made some print ads for Apple Computer in the form of comic strip Life in Hell .
At the 2005 Comic-Con in San Diego, a series of vinyl luxury vinyl Life in Hell produced by CritterBox Toys was announced.
Some characters from Life In Hell made a cameo appearance in Gary Wolf's noir novel 1981 Who Censors Roger Rabbit? .
Binky and Bongo appear as non-interactive character backgrounds in the Simpsons arcade video game (coin-op).
Books
- 1986a, - Love Is Hell Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-394-74454-3)
- 1986a, - Work Is Hell Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-394-74864-6)
- 1987Ã, - School Is Hell Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-394-75091-8)
- 1988a, - Full Hell Box Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-679-72111-8)
- 1988a, - The childhood is Hell Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-679-72055-3)
- 1989Ã, - Greetings from Hell Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-679-72678-0)
- 1989Ã, - Akbar's Guide and Jeff for Life Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-679-72680-2)
- 1990Ã, - Great Book of Hell Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-679-72759-0)
- 1991a, - With Love From Hell Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-06-096583-5)
- 1991a, - The Way to Hell Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-06-096879-6)
- 1992a, - The Road to Hell Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-06-096950-4)
- 1994Ã, - Binky's Guide to Loving Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-06-095078-1)
- 1994a, - Love Is Hell: The Special Edition of the Ultra Jumbo 10th Anniversary Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-679-75665-5)
- 1997Ã, - Great Hell Books Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-14-026310-1)
- 2007a, - Will and Abe's Guide to the Universe Ã, - (ISBNÃ, 0-06-134037-5)
Reference
External links
- Life In Hell Reference On The Simpsons
- Life In Hell in Toonopedia Don Markstein. Archived from original on August 31, 2015.
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