The style of humor on Toothpaste for Dinner encompasses surrealism, irony, social commentary, cynicism, and schadenfreude, among other sub-types of humor. Each comic features small, simple drawings, paired with short captions or dialogue. Toothpaste for DinnerĪ new drawing is posted every day at 12:00 AM, EST. The strips take on topics including ethical relativism, the nature of happiness, the secret to being loved, and so forth. It has been compared to David Lynch’s “The Angriest Dog in the World” comic, and also made references to it. (There are occasional deviations from this, such as several episodic comics). Dinosaur ComicsĮach comic uses the same artwork, with only the dialogue changing from day to day. The comic’s humor is most often absurdist, generally lacking a set punch line, and sometimes branches into the surreal.
The events of the strip mostly take place in and around the house, as well as around the town of Achewood, the fictional suburb which gives its name to the comic, and is likely a thinly-veiled Palo Alto, California. Many of the characters live together in the home of their owner, Chris, at the fictional address of 62 Achewood Court. It portrays the lives of a group of anthropomorphic stuffed toys, robots, and pets. AchewoodĪchewood is a webcomic created by Chris Onstad. McNinja’s quote of “What would Batman do?” Starting with “So What Is A McNinja?”, each page also uses tooltips to add background information and in-jokes, such as the author comparing the comic’s visual style to Frank Miller’s comic Sin City. McNinja’s story has many absurd plot twists, and often makes allusions to outside works, most prominently Dr. Now quit reading this boring history lesson from Wikipedia and go read the comic. The current name “Cyanide & Happiness” comes from a strip in which one character is selling cotton candy made of cyanide and happiness.
Explosm is currently run by Matt, Rob, Dave, and Kris.
They saw potential in Kris’ comics, so they invited him to continue the comic daily. The webmasters of Sticksuicide (Matt Melvin, Rob DenBleyker and Dave McElfatrick) eventually gave up on StickSuicide and started. Kris shared his comics with the forum of.
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Cyanide & Happiness began as a small series of comics drawn by Kris Wilson at the age of 16.
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