![]() As a result, while waiting in Brooks's lobby, he hurriedly sketched out a premise for a show about a crudely drawn Dysfunctional Family. While Groening was originally planning on pitching an Animated Adaptation of Life in Hell, he realised that would entail giving up full rights to the strip to FOX. Brooks invited Groening to pitch a set of animated shorts to be used as filler for The Tracey Ullman Show. The stories follow Binky's interactions with other humanoid-animals and his misadventures as he deals with his own issues and those of the others around him. The series focuses on the life of Binky, a bitter, depressed and thus "normal" rabbit stuck in a dead end job and a bad apartment, Sheba, his easily irked girlfriend, and Bongo, his illegitimate son. Life in Hell debuted as a comic strip in the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978, to which Groening made his first professional cartoon sale. Groening photocopied and distributed the comic book to friends and sold it for two dollars a copy at the "punk" corner of the record store in which he worked. ![]() Life in Hell started in 1977 as an Underground Comic book Groening used to describe life in Los Angeles to his friends. Life in Hell (later Life is Swell in 2007) was a weekly comic strip by Matt Groening that ran from 1977 to 2012. Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter I: What is Love? (And What Makes You Think You Deserve Some?) ![]()
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