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Preview: Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo 20th Anniversary Edition

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Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo 20th Anniversary Edition

(W) Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin, Dave McElfatrick (A) Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin (A/CA) Dave McElfatrick
In Shops: Nov 27, 2024
SRP: $24.99

A 20th Anniversary Edition of BOOM! Studios’ first collection of comic strips from Cyanide & Happiness, a #1 Amazon Best Seller, featuring fan-favorite strips from the wildly original webcomics series that paved the sad, sticky, bloody path for countless others, plus strips that only appear in this collection! Stick figures dishing out the worst that life has to offer in the funniest way possible; you’d laugh, if you could sleep at night…

Also includes “The Hot Date,” a “chews” your own adventure story and a foreword by Alexis Ohanian, one of the founders of Reddit!

Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo 20th Anniversary Edition

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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