At the age of 14, I purchased a series of smaller (40 or so pages) themed collection of Life In Hell strips. When my father and future step-mother found the books, they took the books away and gave me my money back. As you can guess, I simply repurchased the books and kept them at my mom's house (where I usually stayed).
I remember when the Metro Times (the Detroit alt weekly) dropped it, arguing that it had gotten too main stream. To which they received a boatload of letters saying, "If it's so damn mainstream, why don't we think either the Free Press or the News will pick it up?" Of course, neither did. On Jun 20, 2012, at 10:51 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > "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. > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
