# Cyanide And Happiness Cyanide and Happiness is a stick-figure webcomic and animated series hosted at Explosm.net, launched in December 2004 by Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin, and Dave McElfatrick. Known for its dark, absurd humor and minimalist art, it grew a large audience through the late 2000s, spawning books, an iPhone app, and a Kickstarter-funded animated show. ## Overview Cyanide and Happiness is a webcomic and animated series drawn in a deliberately crude stick-figure style, hosted at Explosm.net[1]. The strips are usually four panels long and lean on dark, absurd, and often morbid humor, covering subjects like death, sex, disease, and everyday cruelty[6]. The minimalist look, four flat colors and blocky shapes, became one of the series' most identifiable traits[2]. The comic is written and illustrated by a rotating group of authors, originally Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin, and Dave McElfatrick[1]. Alongside the daily strip, the Explosm team produces short animated videos posted to their YouTube channel[5], which cover the same nihilistic gag-comic territory as the print strips. ## How It Spread By November 2006, Explosm was pulling in over a million daily visitors[2]. The team expanded into print with a self-titled book collection released on January 19, 2010, followed by Ice Cream & Sadness on October 5, 2010[3]. An official Cyanide and Happiness iPhone app landed on the App Store on October 28, 2011[1]. On February 13, 2013, the Explosm crew launched a Kickstarter to fund a full Cyanide and Happiness animated show, asking for $250,000[4]. The campaign closed with $770,309 pledged by 14,242 backers, unlocking stretch goals for a year of weekly animations and ten longer episodes[4]. Matt Melvin left the project on August 12, 2014, citing differing views on where the comic should go[3]. Wilson, DenBleyker, and McElfatrick kept the site running with new strips and pushed more animated work through the Explosm YouTube channel[5]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Cyanide And Happiness? Cyanide and Happiness is a stick-figure webcomic and animated series hosted at Explosm.net, launched in 2004 by Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin, and Dave McElfatrick[1]. ### Where did Cyanide And Happiness come from? Kris Wilson began drawing the strips as a teenager and posted them on his personal site Comicazi before joining Explosm.net when it launched on December 9, 2004[2]. ### What does Cyanide And Happiness mean? The name came from an early strip in which a character says his cotton candy is made of "Cyanide & Happyness"[3]. ### How do you use Cyanide And Happiness? It is a comic series to read at Explosm.net or to watch on the Explosm YouTube channel, where short animated episodes are posted[5]. ### Is Cyanide And Happiness still popular? The Explosm team raised $770,309 on Kickstarter in 2013 to fund a full animated show[4], and the group has kept posting new animations to their YouTube channel[5]. ## References 1. [https://explosm.net]() 2. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/cyanide-happiness]() 4. [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/explosm/the-cyanide-and-happiness-show]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/user/ExplosmEntertainment]() 6. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cyanide%20And%20Happiness]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/cyanide-and-happiness Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library