Saturday, April 4, 2009

Cyanide & Happiness

Cyanide & Happiness is a daily web comic from Explosm.net. This comic usually address immature types of humor, but it does it in very interesting ways. They make heavy use of their ability to draw what normally would be impossible. Often the jokes are a play on words, or a presentation of an alternate way of viewing commonly used analogies and phrases. Most of their work pokes fun at analogies by drawing what they literally would mean to show people how silly the phrase really is. People are unlikely to discontinue their use of these phrases because of this comic, but it is still very effective at shining a critical light on what we say. It causes people to look more closely at their wording, and what they actually mean, as opposed to loosely throwing out phrases whenever they feel like it. The entire website is devoted to various different forms of similar things so it is highly likely their audience is one that agrees with them and already enjoys what they are doing.
Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin, Dave McElfatrick. Cyanide & Happiness. 2000-2009. Explosm. http://www.explosm.net/comics/

No comments:

Post a Comment