These days, Groening isn't feeling so bad - a six-figure income no doubt eases the pain - and he's doing a fair amount of talking about himself and the altered egos who inhabit his darkly cynical 'Life in Hell' strip, currently syndicated in more than 70 weeklies, including the City Paper. They stuck the microphone in my face and I said, 'I don't know what to say, I don't know what to say,' and I wouldn't talk because I felt so bad.' Unfortunately, the prize was going on the local version of 'Romper Room,' which was a total humiliation when you're in the third grade because that's for 5-year-olds. 'And they printed this in Jack and Jill magazine. 'Most kids wrote 'I wanna be a cowboy,' or 'a fireman.' In mine, the kid struck his head and he died and they boarded up the attic and every year on Halloween he'd come down and eat dinner in silence with his family and then go back up to the attic. 'I won a short-story contest in Jack and Jill magazine, a finish-this-story about a little kid on Halloween who went up into his attic, bumped his head and said, 'Now I know what I want to be' - and then you finished the story. 'My first national publication was in the third grade,' the cartoonist says.

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Love Is Hell by Matt Groening