Matt Groening: 'If Life in Hell Were Still in LA Weekly, It Would Probably Have Kept Me Going.'
When Matt Groening retired his weekly “Life in Hell” comic strip in June after 32 years, it was running in just 38 papers, down from 380 in its heyday. The low circulation numbers were a big part of why Groening threw in the towel, but as the cartoonist explains to Editor & Publisher, being cut out of his hometown paper was of special consequence:
It was particularly aggravating that I wasn’t being printed locally in Los Angeles.
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