There is no ongoing storyline, this is more a series of comedic sketches, notable for their sarcastic humour and careful insistence on liberal values. Its central character is a rabbit named Binky, who stands, lives and dies from one strip to the next. Love is Hell is a collection of individual ‘ Hell’, strips relating to relationships, marriage and childbirth. Your mileage may vary on this point and if you’re curious to hear more about the origins of The Simpsons and Groening’s rise to cultural icon, I would recommend John Ortved’s The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorised History. Groening’s desire to protect the strip has since been described as another example of his rebellious nature and need to buck authority. Brooks had been gunning for it since he received a copy of the comic in 1982.
Life in Hell had been running in one form or another since 1977 and had become something of a shibboleth for cool connoisseurs of underground culture. Instead, when Groening arrived, he pitched The Simpsons, which he had furiously scribbled down in order to avoid losing creative control over his strip. Brooks in 1985, who wanted to develop his underground comic Life in Hellinto a cartoon and include it as a recurring feature in The Tracey Ullman Show for the Fox Network. The legend goes that Groening was to attend a meeting with James L. Anyone looking for a debate as to the comparative merits of the ‘fourth art’ versus literature, you’re in the wrong gaff. This is a literary blog, not playtime at kindergarten… Well sorry to disappoint you folks, but I reads what I wants and seeing as my local library happened to have a copy of Matt Groening’s classic strip, I felt I had to have a go. What’s this!? A comic strip! Pish, posh, we’ll have not of that vulgar fare here.
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