Life in Hell

Life in Hell is a weekly comic strip by Matt Groening featuring anthropomorphic rabbits and gay lovers exploring the wide world of love, sex, work, and death. In short, Life in Hell is described as a cute little comic strip full of fun, merriment, laughs, and frivolity, not to mention angst, alienation, self-loathing, and the meaningless of our impending doom.

The comic started in 1977 in Wet magazine and in 1980 Life in Hell was shown in the Los Angeles Reader. Since then there's books of Life in Hell called The Book of Hell, Binky's Guide to Love and The Big Book of Hell and plenty more. Later Groening made a comic company called Bongo Comics.

Recurring Characters

Binky is a bitter, depressed, alienated, and thus "normal", rabbit and star of the cartoon.

Sheba is Binky's estranged girlfriend.

Bongo is Binky's illegitimate son. He has one ear.

Akbar & Jeff are two big-nosed identical gay lovers. They wear fezzes and Charlie Brown-like striped shirts. They have run numerous businesses over the years, including Akbar & Jeff's Tofu Hut, Akbar & Jeff's Earthquake T-Shirt Hut, and Akbar & Jeff's Bootleg Akbar & Jeff T-Shirt hut.

Matt Groening appears in the strip as a bearded rabbit. He is also sometimes represented as Binky.

Will and Abe are Matt Groening's two sons, represented in rabbit form.