Editing Life in Hell (section)

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{{Short description|Comic strip}}
{{Infobox comic strip
|title= Life in Hell
|image= [[File:Life-in-Hell-No-4.jpg|200px]]
|caption= Cover of ''Life in Hell'' No. 4, published in 1978
|author= [[Matt Groening]]
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|status= Ended
|syndicate= [[Copley Press|Copley News Service]]
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|first= 1977
|last= 2012
|genre= [[Black comedy]], [[gag-a-day]], [[satire]]
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'''''Life in Hell''''' is a [[comic strip]] by [[Matt Groening]] that was published weekly from 1977 to 2012. Its main characters include [[anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] rabbits and a [[Homosexuality|gay]] couple. The comic covers a wide range of subjects, such as love, sex, work, and death, and explores themes of angst, social alienation, self-loathing, and fear of inevitable doom.

''Life in Hell'' caught the attention of producer [[James L. Brooks]], who resultantly hired Groening to create animated shorts for ''[[The Tracey Ullman Show]]''. Groening was unwilling to use his ''Life in Hell'' characters for the gig, instead creating [[Simpson family|the cast of characters]] that would go on to feature in the [[animated sitcom]] ''[[The Simpsons]]''.