Work Is Hell by Matt Groening6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() I’d think about the comic strip all week, spend a day drawing it, and then start thinking about the next one. When I started doing the comic strip, it was a great forum for all of my creativity. Seriously, though, what drove you to keep drawing it week after week for all those years? It’s pretty obvious that I ran out of jokes a couple of decades ago – but that doesn’t stop any cartoonist! Why pull the plug on Life in Hell now? Did you simply run out of jokes? With a new season of Futurama starting on June 20th and more than 500 episodes of The Simpsons in the can, the question isn’t so much why Groening is quitting Life in Hell, but rather how he kept it so incisive and funny for so long. ![]() But unlike the no-less-crudely drawn Springfield crew that debuted on Fox in 1987, they belonged to Matt Groening free and clear in the panels of Life in Hell, the syndicated weekly comic strip that the part-time cartoonist discontinued last week after 32 years. Crudely drawn rabbits Binky, Sheba, and Bongo, and their little gay pals Akbar and Jeff, never achieved the notoriety of the Simpsons. ![]()
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