![]() He also sold it for two dollars a copy at the " punk" corner of the record store in which he worked, Licorice Pizza on Sunset Boulevard. Groening photocopied and distributed the comic book to friends. He described it as "every ex-campus protester's, every Boomer idealist's, conception of what adult existence in the '80s had turned out to be." And then I had a series of lousy jobs." In the comic book, Groening attacked what many young adults found repellent: school, work, and love. It was inspired by his move to the city that year in an interview with Playboy, Groening commented on his arrival: "I got on a Friday night in August it was about a hundred and two degrees my car broke down in the fast lane of the Hollywood Freeway while I was listening to a drunken deejay who was giving his last program on a local rock station and bitterly denouncing the station's management. ![]() Life in Hell started in 1977 as a self-published comic book Groening used to describe life in Los Angeles to his friends. ![]()
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