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Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 08:09:05 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)
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@LaD_Hallo Groening's Life In Hell comics are *much* older than the Simpson's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_in_Hell
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  Life in Hell is a comic strip by Matt Groening that was published weekly from 1977 to 2012. The strip features anthropomorphic rabbits and a gay couple. The comic covers a wide range of subjects, such as love, sex, work, and death, and explores themes of angst, social alienation, self-loathing, and fear of inevitable doom. History Life in Hell started in 1977 as a self-published comic book Groening used to describe life in Los Angeles to his friends. It was inspired by his move to the city that year; in an interview with Playboy, Groening commented on his arrival: "I got [to Los Angeles] 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 DJ who was giving his last program on a local rock station and bitterly denouncing the station's management. 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. He described it as "every ex-campus protester's, every Boomer idealist's, conception...
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  Dipper (lad_hallo@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 08:09:06 JST Dipper
  
  Seen in a pizza place in #haightashbury - wondering how this ended up here, 3 years before the #Simpsons. #sanfrancisco
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