and finally, readiness for further punishment) and splitsville (if you get dumped, "do not loathe yourself. Love Is Hell covers the territory: From the 22 stages of heartbreak (amazement gives way to disbelief and shock, then pain, gloom, wounded but alive.
"My heart was broken once or twice, and I vowed I would never forget."
"I wasn't researching, it just happened that way," he says. The popularity of the strip comes not from any artistic talent but from Groening's wry cynicism. Groening characterizes his style as "ugly but friendly - the way most people would draw if they got the chance." All of his characters are rabbits, because they are the only identifiable figures he could do. cartoonist's mild puzzlement: "Perhaps things are even worse there." It's selling particularly well in Washington, to the L.A. A collection, Love Is Hell (Pantheon, 1986, $5.95), has also been published. Named "Life in Hell," the weekly strip now appears in alternative newspapers around the country, including Washington's City Paper. So Groening started drawing on his roommate's situation as a means of "sandbagging the rivers, waiting for my next flash flood of heartbreak." He eventually expanded his subjects to embrace "everything that keeps people awake late at night - sex, death, love, work and school." Mine were noble and tragic, but I thought his were hilarious." It all started back in Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., where Groening, now 32, and his roommate were having "problems with women. "You end up banging your head against the wall at 3 a.m., even when logically you know there's no reason to do so."
"From time to time, love is hell even in the most ideal relationships," he says. Others compare it to a pagoda of ringing bells.Ĭartoonist Matt Groening likens love to a perky elf dancing a merry jig who suddenly turns on you with a machine gun. Some think love is akin to floating down a placid stream.
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