![]() ![]() Eventually, Groening found a way to combine his art and his prose in a still simple yet increasingly sophisticated version of Life in Hell and did so subsequently in his extremely great, miracle-of-popular-culture cartoon show, The Simpsons. Groening worked for a dinky giveaway newspaper, the Los Angeles Reader, where he started drawing the barely stick-figure panels that became his comic strip Life in Hell, and reviewed records in a column called ”Sound Mix.” But because the local music was so lousy, Groening soon began writing about his quirkier musical passions (Frank Zappa, world music, and, er, Frank Zappa) and then started spouting opinions on stuff that had nothing to do with music - or rather, everything to do with good music: sex, politics, sports, etc. including the books Love Is Hell, School Is Hell, Work Is Hell, The Big Book of Hell, and The Huge Book of Hell. ![]() But a rock critic was what Matt Groening (see?) was - sort of. ![]() punk was mostly awful - the children of Hollywood trying to co-opt British youth rage - it was not a good time to be a rock critic. (Don’t worry, we’ll get to Matt Groening in a second.) Because L.A. Bonjour Entrez votre adresse Toutes nos catégories Bonjour, Identifiez-vous. Back in the early ’80s, Los Angeles discovered punk rock. ![]()
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