Love Is Hell

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.

Long 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 show more 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? show less

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.

A nice quick read for fans of love and Matt Groening's strangely humorous strip, "Life In Hell". Despite the title, perhaps only half the strips here deal with the vagaries of love. But that's OK. In Groening's hands, love is quite the hilarious spectator sport.

Its a fun comic - but a bit dated, at times feeling retro, others, just old. Also, I found the text to be too small. At times it was difficult to read.

Watch out for those crafty troglobites

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