"LIfe in Hell," the sardonic alt-weekly comic strip that led Matt Groening to create "The Simpsons" (when he refused to let "Hell" be animated on "The Tracey Ullman Show" because 20th-Century Fox wanted to own the characters), is ending its 32-year run, due to Groening losing money on the strip (thanks to the woes of alt-weeklies, it's now in only 38 papers, way down from over 375 papers in its heyday) and his wanting to do other things besides having to come up with a new idea each week: http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-06-19/matt-groening-life-in-hell/55698336/1 And the annual "Forbidden Words" strips, my personal favorite "Hell" strips (along with the mock magazine cover for "Performance Artist Monthly"), will continue to appear in the "Simpsons" annuals.
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