#cyanide and happiness cartoon

[mywastelandperfection]

I mean the dude ain't wrong

[nando161mando]

[redlettermediathings]

The EATBALL! - ft. Mike Stoklasa

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

May I introduce you to Lunk?

[berrypass-de-murdler]

7. A Quaint Little Village Slaying

Looking through the 71-page document I have of all these little transcripts. WHY DID I DECIDE TO DO THIS Oh well too late to stop

No completed designs for this episode rip...

I legit have zero ideas for Deacon Verdigris because I completely forgot she was a character :) How polite of me!! She... she will exist!! Just need inspo

Also don't have the faintest idea what Earl Grey is supposed to be, all I know is that he's REEEEEALLY annoying in the cartoon version :3 He's painful to write-

DON'T READ THE EPISODES UNTIL YOU'VE FINISHED THE FIRST BOOK!!

Logico goes to the rich-ass neighborhood of Obsidian. He finds her there, along with some new people named Deacon Verdigris and Earl Grey, and also a body. He learns the word ‘vicar’ and is obsessed with it.

LOGICO: Hehehehe. ‘Vicar’. It sounds so pretentious. Let’s solve the murder of the ‘vicar’. The ‘vicar’ has been murdered, and I’m going to find whodunit! HEH It just sounds fantastic coming out of my mouth! OBSIDIAN: GET ON WITH IT

The (ugh) vicar was strangled. Even though there is a bottle of cyanide nearby, a much more useful murder weapon. Did I mention the ancient ruins have begun stalking Logico? Anyway, he interrogates the peeps.

GREY: I WOULDN’T BE CAUGHT DEAD HOLDING A PAIR OF SHEARS!!! I HATE GARDENING, IT’S FOR GIRLS!!! LOGICO: I hate you. 

A delivery boy gives short king a letter that begins with ‘I stared into the fire and scryed for the truth’ and he immediately discards it without reading the rest, like a good detective. He figures it out anyway.

GREY: I CURSE YOU WITH THE HEAT OF A THOUSAND KETTLES! LOGICO: Good gracious, the dialogue.

Obsidian is still holding a bottle of cyanide though.

OBSIDIAN: I DIDN’T DO IT. YOU WOULDN’T FRAME YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR.

The end! 

Obsidian stuck on caps lock rip. I completely forget this in the later episodes too. Continuity is so fun!!

Well since I feel obligated to include at least one illustration have this derpy happy little Logico who will hopefully make you feel better about yourself.

The power of Goat Lord compels you!

See ya next time murdlers!

[treetownconfessions]

i just think it sucks that out of all studio/streaming services to work with theyre gonna be on the quirky edgy internet cartoon one with cyanide and happiness and the guys that made racist mario

eh.

[agoodcartoon]

i cant believe BEN FUCKING GARRISON make a cartoon dunking on Adams

ive even seen cyanide and happiness dunking on him

[nevinslibrary]

Comic Book Saturday

I’ve read a bunch of compilations or collections by Instagram comic creators recently. This is sorta like that, but retro, since these are cartoons/comics that have been published in print.

Tom Gauld is a cartoonist for the New York Times Magazine as well as the Guardian and this particular collection is of cartoons done for the Guardian (for those that don’t know, it’s a paper in Britain. He has a weekly cartoon in the Saturday Review section). His humor is definitely unique (and at times dark), but, it can also be super observational (like a lot of the Instagram ones) and most of it was super super hilarious (or if not hilarious at least very very pointed). It was a fun read.

You may like this book If you Liked: Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton, Cyanide and Happiness by Kris Wilson, or Inappropriate by Gabrielle Bell

You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack by Tom Gauld

[exnihilo-comic]

14, 21, and 22 for the art ask?

14. digital or traditional

i have NO training in digital art, everything i do is ink on paper with occasional digital edits. i respect digital artists so much though, they go from blank screen to majesty so quickly, its fuckin magic

21. something you would like to improve on

the process of formulating ideas, really. in school i visited a friends house and he showed me his desk, which he described as being his place where he "brainstormed for at least an hour a day" and i was taken aback by that. id love to have enough free time that i could just sit down and doodle with no pressure and no thought process, and just think about stuff for the sake of thinking about stuff.

22. what inspires you

other cartoons and comics, actually! i talk off my friends ears constantly with my favorite comics, animation styles, movies, cartoons, etc. i didnt realize i had such a fondness for cartooning until someone said to me "you know a lot about cartooning that ive never even heard of before" and it finally occurred to me that half the time i talk, its about cartoons.

briefly, my fav webcomics that im a huge fan of are cyanide and happiness, xkcd, smbc (which got less funny over the years and more just bleak and nerdy, finishing your degree and having kids can do that), poorly drawn lines (@pdlcomics reza is my ROLE MODEL i take so much inspiration from him) perry bible fellowship, channel ate, oglaf (NSFW), mr lovenstein, war and peas (@warandpeas), the red dot, the other end (@theotherendcomics), extra fabulous, rory blank (who deserves a lot more attention, he makes limited order t shirts every month), pictures for sad children (which if you know anything about how it ended, read this article about how the author isnt as bad as ppl say

and theres artists whom i love that arent exactly weekly webcomic artists but still cartoonists/artists in their own right, like graham annable (@grickle14, he has a new book im going to preorder) mateusz skutnik (who makes video games and comic books as well, im SO EXCITED for submachine legacy), Lev Yilmaz (@levniyilmaz, you can see one of his comics as the pinned post on my sideblog). god who am i missing...brad neely, yotam perel, keith stack and his wacky lesbian hour, sarah anderson for sure, god theres so many

[an-idiot-in-a-costume]

THEY SENT YOU A LETTER

TO COME BACK HOME TO PLAY

BUT TO YOUR DISMAY

THIS ISN'T YOUR DAY

FOR THE HAPPY FUN TIME HAS BEGUN TO FADE

WATCH AS WE REANIMATE OUR CORPSES YOU ABANDONED

WERE DISMANTLED, WERE MISHANDLED

BUT WE WON'T BE SKIPPED AND SWAYED

TRAPPED WITHIN THESE WALLS

YOU LEFT OUR SOULS TO DRIP AWAY

THE INK DECAYS, THE WALLS AT BAY

BUT THE RECKONING HAS COME TODAY

YOU SAY

BORIS HAS NO GUTS CAUSE YOU REPLACED THEM WITH MECHANICAL STRINGS

WE'VE BEEN TORTURED BUT WE MOVE FORWARD

THIS DISORDER KILLS YOUR DAY

I AM ALIVE

IMMORTALIZED

YOUR THE CREATOR

YOU TRAITOR

HEY

THERES NO VACCINE TO CURE OUR DIRTY NEEDS

FOR NOW YOU MUST BUILD UP OUR MACHINE

YOU DIE TONIGHT, TONIGHT

BUILD OUR MACHINE

YOU DIE TONIGHT, TONIGHT

BUILD OUR MACHINE

YOU DIE TONIGHT

SO YOU FOUND ALL THE PIECES TO INITIATE THE PAIN

OUR VENOM STAINS, THE NIGHT REMAINS

BUT THE ENDINGS ALWAYS THE SAME

NO GAIN

NOD YOUR HEAD TO THE BEAT OF DEATH

AS YOU TAKE YOUR LAST ETERNAL BREATH

SENSATIONS OF AN INVASION START TO COURSE RIGHT THROUGH YOUR VEINS

YOU SAY WE HAVE NO BRAINS

WERE JUST CARTOONS FOR YOUR PORTRAYAL

TO TELL SOME TALE ABOUT A BOAT AND SAIL

BUT SURE THIS INEVITABLY UNVEILS THE FAIL

SPLASHES OF ETERNAL HATE WILL FLOOD THE FLOOR AND CLEAN YOUR STATE

NOW WERE THE TOOLS AND YOU'RE THE FOOL

OUR NIGHTMARE DOMINATES

HEY

I AM ALIVE

IMMORTALIZED

YOURE THE CREATOR YOU TRAITOR

HEY THERE'S NO VACCINE TO CURE OUR DIRTY NEEDS

FOR NOW, YOU MUST BUILD UP OUR MACHINE

YOU DIE TONIGHT

BUILD UP OUR MACHINE

YOU DIE TONIGHT

BUILD UP OUR MACHINE

YOU DIE TONIGHT

I AM AWARE

THAT YOUR SOUL IS NOW DEVINE

WE CARE TO NOT TOIL WITH UNBROKEN CHAINS

SO DON'T TOIL WITH OURS LIKE HE DID TO OUR SHINING STAR

SO PREPARE FOR ADVENTURE

A WHOLE NEW CREATURE FROM THE DARKEST SIDE

YOU CAN'T TAKE AWAY THE PAIN WE FEEL

CREATED AS MONSTERS THAT CAME TO LIFE!

(CAME BACK TO LIFE)

SO YOU'VE COME TO THE END NOW

ALIVE BUT DEAD INSIDE

THE HEART BEATS LOUD

YOU'VE JOINED THE CROWD

WE ARE BUT PUNISHED SERPENTINES

YOURE LIFE WITH HIM WAS FUN

BUT NOW THE TERRORS ONLY JUST BEGUN

NOW COME WITH ME AND YOU WILL SEE

WE'RE NEWBORN CYANIDE

HEY

I AM ALIVE

IMMORTALIZED

YOU'RE THE CREATOR YOU TRAITOR

HEY

THERE'S NO VACCINE TO CURE OUR DIRTY NEEDS

FOR NOW YOU MUST BUILD UP OUR MACHINE

YOU DIE TONIGHT

I AM ALIVE

IMMORTALIZED

YOURE THE CREATOR YOU TRAITOR

HEY

THERE'S NO VACCINE TO CURE OUR DIRTY NEEDS

FOR NOW YOU MUST BUILD UP OUR MACHINE

YOU DIE TONIGHT

BUILD UP OUR MACHINE

YOU DIE TONIGHT

BUILD UP OUR MACHINE

YOU DIE TONIGHT

[alvareus-the-sorcerer-of-seals]

Turn their blood into ink

They have sent you a letter,

To come back home to play,

But to your dismay

This isn't your day

For the happy fun time

Has begun to fade

Watch as we reanimate

Our corpses you abandoned

We're dismantled

We're mishandled

But we won't be skipped and swayed

Trapped within these walls

You left our souls to drip away

The ink decays

The walls at bay

But the reckoning has come today

You say

Borris has no guts 'cause you

Replaced it with mechanical strain

We've been tortured

But we move forward

This disorder kills your day

I am alive!

Immortalized

You're the creator

You traitor

Hey!

There's no vaccine

To cure our dirty needs

For now you must

Build up our machine

You die tonight

Tonight

Build up our machine

You die tonight

Tonight

Build up our machine

You die tonight

Tonight

So you found all the pieces

To initiate the pain

Our venom stains

The night remains

But the ending is always just the same

No gain

Nod your head to the beat of death

As you draw your last eternal breath

Sensations

Of an invasion

Start to course right through your veins

You say we have no brains

We're just cartoons for your portrayal

To tell some tale about a boat and sail

But sure this inevitably unveils the fail

Splashes of eternal hate

Will flood the floor and clean your slate

Now we're the tools

And you're the fool

Our nightmare dominates

I am alive!

Immortalized

You're the creator

You traitor

Hey!

There's no vaccine

To cure our dirty needs

For now you must

Build up our machine

You die tonight

I am alive!

Immortalized

You're the creator

You traitor

Hey!

There's no vaccine

To cure our dirty needs

For now you must

Build up our machine

You die tonight

Tonight

Build up our machine

You die tonight

Tonight

Build up our machine

You die tonight

I am aware

That your soul is now divine

We care to not toil

With unbroken chains

So don't toil with ours

Like he did to our shining stars

So prepare for adventure

We're a whole new creature

From the darkest side

You can't take away the pain we feel

Created as monsters

That come to life

Come back to life!

So you've come to the end now

Alive but dead inside

The heart beats loud

You've joined our crowd

We are but punished serpentines

Your life with him was fun

But now the terror's only just begun

Now come with me

And you will see

We're a new born cyanide!

I am alive!

Immortalized

You're the creator

You traitor

Hey!

There's no vaccine

To cure our dirty needs

For now you must

Build up our machine

You die tonight

I am alive!

Immortalized

You're the creator

You traitor

Hey!

There's no vaccine

To cure our dirty needs

For now you must

Build up our machine

You die tonight

Tonight

Build up our machine

You die tonight

Tonight

Build up our machine

You die tonight!

hey is like. arsenic lung an illegal spell? is cyanide blood illegal?

will i have my floating cartoon head on a platter if i, god forbid, transmute necessary body parts into common deadly poisons? i wanna made a guy sweat poison ivy oil

[nando161mando]

Parents lie to their children

[shaemefulanimation]

Moving Forward

After taking the better (or worst) part of a week off to process everything, I started brainstorming my next move as continuing on with my "Death" poem right now was simply too difficult.

Initially I had considered animating a short clip of my Semester One Digital Character, Feya, but decided I wouldn't be able to her justice in her animation debut with the remaining time period.

I then explored more light hearted and funny concepts inspired by comic strips like Cyanide and Happiness, taking existing funny/dumb jokes and animating them - but ultimately decided I wasn't in a headspace to do something funny and witty right now.

I honestly found myself at this point in quite the creative rut and struggled immensely as soon as I took an idea forward into the story-boarding phase. That's when I came across this Youtube Short while looking for inspiration:

Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action. Rotoscoping can allow you to create more stylized or artistic effects, such as cartoon-like animation or silhouette-like cutouts. However, also has some disadvantages, such as being time-consuming, tedious, and repetitive.

While I understand this process will be very time-consuming and I am on a very tight deadline, by rotoscoping an existing dance video I am taking away the mental labour of story-boarding that was holding me back from continuing on with my animation.

The first dance I had contemplated animating was the current Tiktok dance trend to Taylor Swift's "Is It Over Now?". While I had a few ideas of how I would make this dance visually interesting when rotoscoped, the dance is only 10 seconds long and wouldn't be suitable to the 15 second minimum time limit I have been given.

After spending a good couple of hours looking at dozens of dance videos, I remembered an iconic 1975 (Sahara's favourite band) dance to one of Sahara's favourite song and knew this would be my final animation:

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

My sister insists on playing like three or four different boardgames every time the family visits, and tonight we're all tired and burned out after a full day of festivities. She is being passive agressive, saying "somebody should choose a game..."

"Okay, what fo you want to play?"

"I dunno, somebody else choose something. Pick something good."

"What kind of game?"

"I don't care. You pick. Go into my game closet and pick."

"You're not gonna like the game I pick."

"Yes I will! Why would you even say that?"

"I know for a fact you're not gonna want to play the game I choose."

"I will play whatever you want. It's MY game closet, I wouldn't have them if I didn't want yo play them."

I pick Joking Hazard, the Cyanide and Happiness comic game. She IMMEDIATELY shits on it, "nobody wants to play that! Why would you pick that?!?"

For once, my mom comes to my defense, "you JUST said you'd play whatever he chose."

"No, I said he could pick, but... Well, nobody wants to play that. It's not appropriate for mom."

I tell her "we've played it with mom before!"

"I don't really feel like playing this, but if nobody else is gonna pick something..."

Nobody says anything.

"Okay," I say, "we're playing this then."

My sister rolls her eyes and starts scrolling on her phone. I start reading the instructions to refresh, and she says "you don't even know how to play! Nobody wants to learn on the spot," even though 9 times out of 10 she chooses some $100 Eurogame she saw on booktok/booktube (boardgametok/bardgametube?) that only she has ever played to gaurantee she'll win the first three rounds and then change to a different game once the rest of us start picking up the rules.

So my sister vetoed my decision, nobody else wants to pick anything, but everybody wants to play SOMETHING, so she's acting like I'm the bad guy for ruining game night again. My mom ended up picking the Blockbuster party game, which is a team game but there's 5 of us, so take a wild guess who's the odd man out!

My mom tried to play peacemaker by saying I could be on her team, but my sister said that wouldn't be fair because I know too much about movies. So I "offered" to sit this one out, which is what my sister wanted, and mom made a big stink about how I should be a "floater," playing for both teams, and I had to insist on sitting out so my sister wouldn't throw a hissy fit and say she didn't want to play this game either.

Now they're playing Blockbuster, which is about guessing titles, quoting movies, and acting out scenes, and none of them have ever seen anything but disney cartoons and big budget popcorn movies, so they're skipping cards they don't know, breaking rules and making up their own on the fly, just doing whatever they want and having an absolute blast. Whenever I chime in to help one side or the other, my sister says I'm cheating and starts the round over again, even though they're ALL cheating. They're going off the rails, but she only calls ME on it when I try to join in because they're all laughing and joking at the table while I'm the red-headed stepchild sitting alone on the couch.

I hate her so much, but I'm not allowed to say it.

I've committed the cardinal sin of beating my older sister at a boardgame on Christmas. 35 dead, 127 injured.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[thefugitivesaint]

Cyanide and Happiness, ‘Magic Word’, 2018 Source