Matt Groening Ends "Life In Hell"

[6F01]

Source: http://www.avclub.com/articles/matt-...p-after,81571/

Bittersweet news, but Groening said a couple years back he would probably have to end it someday.

A release of the complete collection would be amazing, as I haven't been able to read much of the 1998-2012 strips.

[Jesse Pinkman]

saw this at boards and rec. kinda shocked, but hey, life goes on

[irvine_11]

I thought he had already ended many years ago...

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Of course he would cancel the only good thing he still has.

[Knightboat]

A release of the complete collection would be amazing, as I haven't been able to read much of the 1998-2012 strips.

True that. I'm sure they'll release a complete collection sometime in the future.

[parklife]

never read one life in hell strip ever

[The Thompsons]

You didn't see the "Ways to die in LA" strip that's shown in the special features on the various early season Simpsons DVD's?

[Zombies Rise from the Sea]

never read one life in hell strip ever

same here.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

You on a same here binge or what Zombies.

[zach]

i've got the 'Big Book Of Hell'. wasn't really impressed by it.

[Oh, that's raspberry!]

I enjoyed the ones I read which were several but all in one sitting and only once in my life so I can't say I'm too bothered by this.

[Jesse Pinkman]

i never read any of these either

[Dark Homer]

I love life in hell and it's kind of a bummer it's ended

[That Don Guy]

Hands up, those of us who have one of his strips on a cubicle/office wall. (I have the "thank god for microwave popcorn" one from one of the calendars.)

True that. I'm sure they'll release a complete collection sometime in the future.

There were, what, about 1700 different strips? Still, in a large page format (i.e. the size of the "The Far Side" books), with two strips per page, and about 200 pages per book, a four- or five-book collection might be doable, but is there really enough interest? (Besides, this assumes that all of the strips are still available.)

I thought he had already ended many years ago...

Considering how few papers carry it now, a lot of people probably think that.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Yeah, what Don said. I haven't been able to read them all specifically because they're not printed in my paper, nor have they ever been, to my knowledge, and I could only read as many as were on the internet, and there's surprisingly not very many I can scrounge up. I would definitely buy a complete collection.

[Flimpson Tide]

If he only drew less than 2,000 of them, and it's been going 34 years...da fuck? Obviously it wasn't a Sunday strip because the article said the strip ended on a Friday. Yet I've never seen it in a comics section of a newspaper (which is understandable, since so few carry it). Did he just draw one whenever the hell he wanted to and then the newspaper would have to find space for it - kind of like how political cartoonists just draw whenever? If that's how it worked, I could see why nobody wanted it...

[D DEBBS]

Sad.

The San Diego Reader used to carry his strip but got rid of it...they carry Groening's friend, Lynda Barry's awfully drawn cartoon 'Ernie Pook's Comeek', which is unfunny to me.

[zartok-35]

Thoes two fez-wearing guys are pretty funny.

[Dark Homer]

If he only drew less than 2,000 of them, and it's been going 34 years...da fuck? Obviously it wasn't a Sunday strip because the article said the strip ended on a Friday. Yet I've never seen it in a comics section of a newspaper (which is understandable, since so few carry it). Did he just draw one whenever the hell he wanted to and then the newspaper would have to find space for it - kind of like how political cartoonists just draw whenever? If that's how it worked, I could see why nobody wanted it...

it's weekly, his deadline was friday afternoons, the individual newspaper decides what day to run it on (since most of them were alt-weeklys, that would be whatever day they publish)

[irvine_11]

I liked when Matt poked fun at his fans.

[Mozy]

This is a shame! Maybe this is leading to something bigger...

[Dark Homer]

Sad.

The San Diego Reader used to carry his strip but got rid of it...they carry Groening's friend, Lynda Barry's awfully drawn cartoon 'Ernie Pook's Comeek', which is unfunny to me.

you take that back

[zartok-35]

That wasn't bad, but the best part was "Actual road". Heh heh.

[iambobdole1]

Well, I guess it had a pretty good run.

[The Duke of Insomnia]

Never really got into it. I didn't even know it was still going until like a month ago, I thought Matt had ended years ago

[biffwestwood]

Maybe Matt Groening will work on an animated version of Life In Hell

[irvine_11]

I wonder what would have happened if he went ahead animating Life in Hell instead of The Simpsons in 1987. Civilization as we know it may not exist.

[Insecthero]

I have yet to so much as crack a smile at a Life in Hell comic.

[Jesse Pinkman]

you're probably too sick from eating bad food to find things funny

[Knightboat]

There were, what, about 1700 different strips? Still, in a large page format (i.e. the size of the "The Far Side" books), with two strips per page, and about 200 pages per book, a four- or five-book collection might be doable, but is there really enough interest? (Besides, this assumes that all of the strips are still available.)


Considering how few papers carry it now, a lot of people probably think that.

Well to be honest, I don't know much about Life in Hell so I had no idea there were so many.

I would still be interested. I haven't seen nearly a tenth of them so I'm interested in reading all of them.