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The Big Book of Hell

by Matt Groening · 1990 · 169 pages

Part of the Life in Hell series

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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.

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Genre
humorsatire
Themes
art
Setting
1990s
Audience
adult
Length
short · 169 pages
Form
graphic novelsmanga

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