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Preview: Cyanide & Happiness: 20 Years Wasted

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Cyanide & Happiness: 20 Years Wasted

(W) Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Dave McElfatrick (A) Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick (A/CA) Rob DenBleyker
In Shops: Dec 11, 2024
SRP: $24.99

A fresh collection of fan-favorite webcomics have made their way to print for the very first time, along with brand-new, never-before-seen strips.

But this is no mere collection of comic strips! Cyanide & Happiness: Twenty Years Wasted (A Questionable Recollection Of The First Two Decades) also features the mostly-true history of Cyanide & Happiness as told by its creators – Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick.

Reverently assembled with firsthand commentary, never-before-seen internal documents, insights into their creative process, and, yes, even incriminating photographs. Kris, Rob, and Dave will walk down memory lane, stopping at iconic Cyanide & Happiness strips that tell the story of their history thus far.

Cyanide & Happiness: 20 Years Wasted

Crowdfunding Corner: Explosm and BOOM! Studios Celebrate 20 Years of Cyanide & Happiness

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To kick off early festivities for Cyanide & Happiness’ upcoming 20th anniversary, BOOM! Studios has launched its latest BOOM! Direct Reserve campaign with Cyanide & Happiness 20th Anniversary Extravaganza!

The irreverent biting satire of Cyanide & Happiness has made it one of the most beloved and successful webcomics of all time and brought its millions of worldwide fans unadulterated joy for nearly 20 years. BOOM! Studios, in partnership with Explosm, offer fans not only a brand new collection of comic strips and mostly true history of the franchise, but the first ever library of high end hardcover editions of all three of BOOM! Studios’ previously published editions. along with highly limited collectibles celebrating nearly two decades of hilarity.

Alongside the new Cyanide & Happiness: Twenty Years Wasted collection and commemorative 20th Anniversary deluxe editions of Punching Zoo, Stab Factory, and A Guide to Parenting By Three Guys With No Kids, this BOOM! Direct Reserve Campaign will also offer fans an exclusive A/R enhanced enamel pin in collaboration with Pinfinity, a highly collectible 20th anniversary calendar, a limited edition vinyl swear jar toy, and exclusive Joking Hazard playing cards to collect and add to your game, along with more rewards and upgrades to be announced throughout the month!

Cyanide & Happiness 20th Anniversary Extravaganza BOOM! Direct Reserve Campaign is live on Kickstarter, ending at 11:00am PST on Thursday, October 19th. The upcoming 20th Anniversary editions of Cyanide & Happiness: No Refunds, Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo, Cyanide & Happiness: Stab Factory, and Cyanide & Happiness: A Guide to Parenting By Three Guys With No Kids in standard softcover format are slated for release in the comic book specialty, book, and library markets in fall 2024.

Preview: Cyanide & Happiness: A Guide To Parenting By Three Guys With No Kids SC

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Cyanide & Happiness: A Guide To Parenting By Three Guys With No Kids SC

Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Writers: Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker & Dave McElfatrick
Artists: Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker & Dave McElfatrick
Cover Artist: Dave McElfatrick
Price: $9.99

Finally, a definitive and reliable manual that demystifies the complicated world of parenting while delivering crucial tips and sage advice—all from three guys who make comics instead of children.
This informative guide for breeders tackles all the big parenting issues: Finding messages in your alphabet soup, drawing the perfect hand turkey, getting away with kidnapping, telling your kids you don’t love them anymore, and making out with your kid’s best friend’s dad.

Cartoonists Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick combine all of their knowledge and experience—or lack thereof—for a laugh-out-loud, labor-inducing look into the world of parenthood through the sick and twisted lens of Cyanide & Happiness comics.

Cyanide & Happiness: A Guide to Parenting by Three Guys with No Kids in April

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BOOM! Studios and Explosm are empowering a new generation of parents with Cyanide & Happiness: A Guide to Parenting by Three Guys with No Kids in April 2018. In a collection of irreverent and outrageous comic strips and essays by the creators behind one of the most popular, longest-running webcomics of all time, cartoonists Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick combine all of their knowledge and experience—or lack thereof—for a laugh-out-loud, labor-inducing look into the world of parenthood through the sick and twisted lens of Cyanide & Happiness comics.

Featuring a Foreword by Lunarbaboon: The Daily Life of Parenthood author Chris Grady, Cyanide & Happiness: A Guide to Parenting by Three Guys with No Kids is a definitive and reliable manual that demystifies the complicated world of parenting while delivering crucial tips and sage advice—all from three guys who make comics instead of children. This informative guide for breeders tackles all the big parenting issues: Finding messages in your alphabet soup, drawing the perfect hand turkey, getting away with kidnapping, telling your kids you don’t love them anymore, and making out with your kid’s best friend’s dad.

Cyanide & Happiness: A Guide to Parenting by Three Guys with No Kids will be available for sale in April 2018. The previous two Cyanide & Happiness books from BOOM! Studios, Punching Zoo (2013) and Stab Factory (2015), are currently available.

BOOM! Box Presents New Cyanide & Happiness: Stab Factory Collection

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BOOM! Box, an imprint of BOOM! Studios, is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Cyanide & Happiness: Stab Factory, the second C&H trade paperback from the publisher. From creators Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick, the book contains a hand-picked collection of strips that have run on their site, explosm.net, the short Bedtime Stories for Good Children, and also features the debut of 30, bonus, never-before-seen comics .

As one of the most popular and successful webcomics online, Cyanide & Happiness consistently offers a humorous, tongue-in-cheek look at life in the form of stick figures. Generating over a million hits a week, the webcomic is one of the longest-lasting strips on the internet, attracting fans with its controversial nature, dark humor, and funny depictions of seemingly inappropriate topics.

Cyanide & Happiness: Stab Factory is the second collection published by BOOM! Box. Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo was published last Fall and is available wherever books are sold. Stab Factory will arrive in comic shops and bookstores this November.

Cyanide & Happiness Stab Factory Cover by Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker

Preview: Cynaide & Happiness: Punching Zoo

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Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo TP

Imprint: BOOM! Box

Writers: Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin, Dave McElfatrick
Artists: Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin, Dave McElfatrick

One of the most popular and successful webcomics, like, ever, CYANIDE & HAPPINESS has consistently offered up a humorous look at life—in stick figure form—and we are big fans. The experimental, hilarious voice of CYANIDE & HAPPINESS embodies the spirit of BOOM! Box and we jumped at the chance to collect it.

If you are on the Internet, you’ve read CYANIDE & HAPPINESS. Generating over a million hits a week, the webcomic is one of the longest-lasting strips out there, and everyone can relate to its hilarious slice-of-life depictions. Since the dawn of man, stick figures have been used as an important device for storytelling. CYANIDE & HAPPINESS has taken this language and mashed it up with Internet culture, bringing us some of the best satire and dark comedy out there.

PUNCHING ZOO includes a buttload of our favorite comics from the site, 30 brand-new, too-hot-for-the-Internet comics, “The Hot Date” (a choose-your-own-adventure where you decide the story), and a nice forward by Alexis Ohanian, one of the founders of reddit.

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BOOM! Box Collects Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo

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BOOM! Box, an imprint of BOOM! Studios, has announced the release of Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo, a collection of both fan-favorite and new never-before-seen comics from the Cyanide & Happiness webcomic. As one of the most popular and successful webcomics online, Cyanide & Happiness consistently offers a humorous, tongue-in-cheek look at life in the form of stick figures. Generating over a million hits a week, the webcomic is one of the longest-lasting strips out there, and everyone can relate to its hilarious slice-of-life depictions.

If you are on the Internet, you’ve probably read Cyanide & Happiness. Since the dawn of man, stick figures have been used as an important device for storytelling. Cyanide & Happiness has taken this language and mashed it up with Internet culture, bringing us some of the best satire and dark comedy out there.

Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo includes a buttload of our favorite comics from the site, 30 brand-new, too-hot-for-the-Internet comics, “The Hot Date” (a “chew”-your-own-adventure where you decide the story), and a nice forward by Alexis Ohanian, one of the founders of reddit.

Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo TP is written and illustrated by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick, and Matt Melvin. It arrives in comic shops on August 20th with a retail price of $14.99.

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