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Before The Simpsons and Futurama, Matt Groening began his career with the avant garde cartoon Life in Hell . The strip has to be seen to be appreciated, since no description can do it justice. It stars a pair of anthropomorphic rabbits who explore sex, love, mortality, and meaning.

The small collection, Love is Hell offers a great introduction to the series. Titles of the particular strips give a good overview of its advice: The Nine Types of Boyfriends, What Not to Say During Moments of Intimacy, 9 Secret Love Techniques that Could Possibly Turn Men into Putty in Your Hands, The 22 Stages of Heartbreak, The 9 Types of Relationships, Homo vs Hetero: Which is Better?, Should You Have a Baby?, Kid's Questions About Death, and How to Be a Sensitive Poet.

If you like the Simpsons, you're halfway there towards loving Life in Hell . Who could have imagined existential angst could be so downright hilarious? (

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danielx | Apr 26, 2009 |

My copy has the phrase "Julie is Hell" scrawled on the title page (I bought it used). It goes to show how true this book can feel at times. Groening takes the best most basic stereotypes of love and crams them into the mouths of odd bunnies.

This book contains some lines that I find myself quoting for years, such as "love is like a snowmobile ride across the tundra and you crash and are trapped underneath. At night the ice weasels come," or, advice for women, "Consider yourself like a faucet that runs either ice cold or boiling hot and alternates between without warning."

It is pure genius, it is no wonder that Groening is the man behind the longest running cartoon series of all time, in prime-time, no less.

grady.cameron | Sep 24, 2007 |

I love Matt Groening's Life In Hell series for the truths he tells about people that I never saw in comics before I saw his books. Nowadays such candor is commonplace but his comics really opened my eyes to the level of insight and truth that comics can tell. (

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bostonbibliophile | Aug 14, 2007 |

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It's the 10th Anniversary Edition of Love Is Hell! A book that's been in the making for a solid decade! This medium-sized guide is now available to the public with extra bonus fun-pages never-before-included in previous volumes of the same name! Slightly less scrawny than the original Love Is Hell, this behemoth-style handbook is jam-packed with all the info YOU need to keep your love-fight burnin'! Frankly written and profusely illustrated by famed cartoonist and merchandising monarch Matt Groening, Love Is Hell is the answer to all your Quandaries de l'Amour, or, as we say in American, Love Quandaries. Inside, you'll find handy tips on everything from Getting the Love You Deserve to Getting Your Heart Broken into Millions of Tiny Pieces. Plus so very much more. Why, we've even included a brand-spankin'-new intro by the author himself, written especially for this incredible 10th Anniversary Edition! And as if that wasn't enough, because you've waited so patiently for this special edition to come out, you get a special gold-colored anniversary seal right on the front cover, just because we care. Here's hoping you find a love as lasting and meaningful as this paperback.

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