Kris Wilson - Ice Cream & Sadness: More Comics from Cyanide & Happiness

Wed also like to thank Chase Suddarth for his animation wizardry, Zach Weiner for being a great booth buddy and having a sillier last name than Matt, our two fans in Congo, our one fan in Antarctica, Matts mom for letting us say she was dead in the last book (the dead cant say no!) and of course our wonderful fans, for keeping it so damn classy. Youre kinda the best.

Dear Reader,

Midway through the decade-we-still-dont-have-a-name-for, people thought webcomics were all strips focused on video games, influenced mainly by anime and pixel art. Yet one of the most popular webcomics didnt fit that description at all, and most of my comics friends seemed to have barely heard of it. It was beloved not by comic nerds, but by real, normal people sharing comics on their eye-wateringly ugly MySpace pages. And they shared them because they were funny.

Good jokes, told well, are why Cyanide & Happiness is so popular. For a comic that packs in an awful lot of blood, stick figure nudity, abortions, and sheer contrariness, it isat its heartfunny. The best of their strips arent simply the ones that are the most outrageous, theyre the ones that most perfectly subvert your expectations, which is what a joke should do. Sometimes that means giving you an unexpected ending to the sitting in a tree childhood rhyme, and sometimes it means giving you polio. But whatever the content, theres always a joke at the end.

Rob, Dave, Matt, and Kris are great guys, and their dedication to humor is complete. Ive frankly got no idea whats in this book youre holdingthey couldve copy-and-pasted my foreword into anythingbut I can confidently say that it will make you laugh. Or, failing that, it will at least distract you long enough for the guys to fuck your mom.

Randall Munroe, author of XKCD, the #1 comic on the internet