


Books in series

#1
Love Is Hell
1982
It's the 10th Anniversary Edition of Love Is Hell! A book that's been in the making for a solid decade! This medium-sized guide is now available to the public with extra bonus fun-pages never-before-included in previous volumes of the same name! Slightly less scrawny than the original Love Is Hell, this behemoth-style handbook is jam-packed with all the info YOU need to keep your love-fight burnin'! Frankly written and profusely illustrated by famed cartoonist and merchandising monarch Matt Groening, Love Is Hell is the answer to all your Quandaries de l'Amour, or, as we say in American, Love Quandaries. Inside, you'll find handy tips on everything from Getting the Love You Deserve to Getting Your Heart Broken into Millions of Tiny Pieces. Plus so very much more. Why, we've even included a brand-spankin'-new intro by the author himself, written especially for this incredible 10th Anniversary Edition! And as if that wasn't enough, because you've waited so patiently for this special edition to come out, you get a special gold-colored anniversary seal right on the front cover, just because we care. Here's hoping you find a love as lasting and meaningful as this paperback.

#2
Work Is Hell
1985
Laugh off your work worries, employment disappointment and career cares with Blinky, Bongo, Jeff and Akbar as they guide you safely through the 9 to 5 battle-zone that is work. As someone once 99% of success is simply turning up. From the first tentative step onto the greasy corporate ladder, to the inevitable slump to the bottom of the food-chain, Matt Groening draws on all the back-stabbery, gossip-mongery and skullduggery of modern office life to create a hilarious masterpiece to help you transcend the work-a-day blues. Whether you feel like a battery hen or a battering ram at work, you will laugh at your peers, recognise your younger naive self, and poke fun at your boss. Say goodbye to boredom and hello to squeals of laughter as Matt Groening races through Bad Job Checklists, How to Kill 8 Hours a Day and Still Keep Your Job, and The 81 Types of Employees. Life in Hell was the syndicated newspaper cartoon strip by Matt Groening which ran in the States during the 80s and early 90s. Asked to turn the characters into TV animation, Groening instead developed The Simpsons, retaining many of the characteristics of Binky, Bongo, Sheba, Jeff and Akbar in the series. In a world where The Simpsons and Futurama are as popular as ever, these hellish cartoons featuring Matt Groening's zany brand of comic genius are simply gold dust.

#3
School is Hell
1987
Contains 48 more glimpses into Matt's all-too-true view of things.

#4
Childhood Is Hell
1988
Jampacked with 48 of the wittiest cartoons from Matt Groening's syndicated "Life in Hell" comic strip. You also get 25 chapters of the "Childhood is Hell" maxi-series and a bunch of bonuses.

#5
Greetings from Hell
1989
Attention, Life in Hell "TM" Fans! Let Binky, Bongo, Sheba, Akbar, and Jeff help you tell the world the Love ... work ... school ... childhood ... life is hell! Here are 32 ready-to-mail postcards featuring your favorite cartoons from the bestselling books by Matt Groening. There's a perfect one for every Lonely Tyrant or Sullen Teen in your life.

#6
Akbar and Jeff's Guide to Life
1989
A peek at Akbar & Jeff's private lives—are they or aren't they? (And what's up with Ernie and Bert?)

#7
How to Go to Hell
A Cartoon Book by Matt Groening
1991
Find out how in the hell to get to Hell in Matt Groening's indispensable collection of comic strips on which 'The Simpsons' was based. This handy compendium of creepy cartoons won't pay your taxes, bring you true love, or help you achieve nirvana, but it will help you cope with the hell we call life with a few more giggles and snorts. With dozens of hints for the hellbound, this sizzling smorgasbord of a book featuring Blinky, Bongo, Sheba, Akbar and Jeff is just the thing if you're in Hell, from Hell, going to Hell or hellbent. Life in Hell was the syndicated newspaper cartoon strip by Matt Groening which ran in the States during the 80s and early 90s. Asked to turn the characters into TV animation, Groening instead developed The Simpsons, retaining many of the characteristics of Binky, Bongo, Sheba, Jeff and Akbar in the series. In a world where The Simpsons and Futurama are as popular as ever, these hellish cartoons featuring Matt Groening's zany brand of comic genius are simply gold dust.

#9
Guía para el amor de Binky
1994
Deja que Binky y su pandilla sean tus vacilantes sherpas, para guiarte por entre los traidores abismos de la felicidad y las terribles simas emocionales de ese escarpado territorio llamado Amor, en un cáustico tratado que incluye más de 120 historietas.

#10
El Enorme Libro del Infierno
1997
El origen de Los Simpson y Futurama, de Matt Groening, está aquí, en su serie Vida en el infierno, que comenzó a ver la luz en los periódicos estadounidenses en el año 1977 y que en la actualidad publican más de 250 diarios en todo el mundo. Al tiempo que está en la pantalla grande la película de Los Simpson, llega a las librerías este volumen, El enorme libro del infierno, en el que a lo largo de 168 páginas Groening vuelve a la carga haciendo gala de la causticidad y el sarcasmo que en la producción televisiva de Los Simpson se ven dulcificados.
Todo un paso más tras las entregas ya publicadas de El amor es el infierno y El trabajo es el infierno. Angustia jovial, alegre rencor y reconfortante alienación abundan en la ardiente carpa de El enorme libro del infierno, seleccionados de la tira cómica perturbadoramente extendida Vida en el infierno. Binky, Akbar, Jeff, Will, Abe y el propio Groening... son los “infernales” personajes que logran ese tono vitriólico y por momentos hilarante.

#11
Will and Abe's Guide to the Universe
2007
Why do skeletons dance?
Is there a Queen Kong?
Are zombies ever happy? These are just a few of the many perplexing questions asked, and sometimes answered, in . . . Will and Abe's Guide to the Universe This is the very latest in the ever-expanding series of mini-jumbo cartoon compendia by that rabbit-drawing rabble-rouser Matt Groening, author of Love Is Hell ™, Childhood Is Hell ™, and many, many more hell-bound books. Unlike other collections gathered from Matt's provocative Life in Hell ® comic strip, Will and Abe's Guide to the Universe shows a different side of the politically charged TV-cartoon guy—that of dazed but proud dad. All the words in these comic strips are taken from Matt's feisty and funny sons Will and Abe: their actual conversations, stories, songs, arguments, theories, explanations, excuses, snappy retorts, and flights of fancy. If you have kids, know kids, have been a kid, or remain a kid at heart, you know that kids say the most hellish things! \ \ Any similarity between "hellish" and "darndest," implied or otherwise, is impossible, because darndest isn't really a word, is it? Contains the following wildness:
And much, much more! Collect all 73 comic strips! Better yet, we did it for you! So buy this book! Includes the classic comic strips
"Interview with a 3-Year-Old Vampire,"
"I'm Going to Tell God to Kick You," and
"The Girls at School Drive Us Crazy!"

#12
The Big Book of Hell
1990
Painstakingly assembled and rigorously organized by that master of clutter, Matt Groening, this is not another mini-jumbo, hard-to-read, abbreviated compendium in that seemingly endless series of discourses on hell but a gargantuan historical extravaganza of ten years' worth of the everpopular "Life in Hell "RM" " cartoon strip, which still mysteriously appears weekly in several hundred newspapers tricoastally. Read the whole story of "Life in Hell "RM"," from early prehistory to late last night.
Author

Matt Groening
Author · 70 books
Matthew Abram Groening is an American cartoonist, television producer and writer from Portland, Oregon. Groening is best known as the creator of The Simpsons. He is also the creator of Futurama and the author of the weekly comic strip Life in Hell. Groening distributed Life in Hell in the book corner of Licorice Pizza, a record store in which he worked. He made his first professional cartoon sale to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978. The cartoon is still carried in 250 weekly newspapers.