


In around 2001, DenBleyker created the website StickSuicide, which hosted animations and games depicting the violent deaths of stick figures. Īccording to Matt Melvin, he and Rob DenBleyker had been making stick figure death movies together around 19, and they knew Dave McElfatrick from the stick figure community. C&H has won a Streamy Award and has been nominated for an Eisner Award.Ĭ&H has had multiple spinoffs: there have been four seasons of an animated television show called The Cyanide & Happiness Show two tabletop games have been produced and two video games are in production.Ĭyanide & Happiness first appeared on on January 26, 2005, but initial development of the comic started in 2004. The comic was called one of the ten best webcomics by a columnist for The Telegraph in 2009, and by 2012 the website was receiving over a million views each day. The comic and animations use stick figure art to present graphic, dark, and often surreal humor which has been described as "seem to have no taste boundaries whatsoever", covering topics such as abortion, suicide, violence, and necrophilia. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website along with animated shorts in the same style. Black comedy, satire, surreal humor, puns, sketch comedy, adult animationĬyanide & Happiness ( C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin.
