C & H was spontaneous for us: Matt

Mind you, Cyanide and Happiness (C&H) aren’t your ordinary kinda jokes. Infact, the authors themselves warn, “If you are younger than 15 or older than 50 there is an 87per cent chance something in this book/web series will offend you…These aren’t your grandma’s Sunday funnies, but I think that’s why we like them. Your grandma’s sort of a b****.”

The darkly irreverent and simply drawn comic strip, ‘Cyanide & Happiness’ was the brainchild of four Dallas-bred guys, Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Dave McElfatrick, and Matt Melvin, who started swapping doodles as a hobby in 2004 for their own amusement.

And, as they figured out a year after they launched the series online at Explosm.net in 2005, their slightly sick stick figures made a whole lot of other people laugh, too. Nearly a decade later, with an average 29 million unique visitors last year, the comics maintain their simply drawn style and crude humor that makes light of everything from child pornography raids to Instagram abuse.

“The ideas came to us naturally. It was more or less spontenous for us,” said Matt while interacting with the CityTAB at Hyderabad Comic Con. Matt moved out of C&H last year, but continues to make jokes with his ‘slightly sick stick figures’ and as well started his own web series titled ‘The Last Nerds on Earth.’

The Last Nerds on Earth is a webcomic about two nerdy/geeky best friends, Oliver and Adam, trying to survive a zombie apocalypse. “Think of it as Superbad meets Scott Pilgrim meets The Walking Dead,” he says. “One of the flaws I found with most of ‘zombie apocalyptic’ movies, are the lack of science in it.

The nerds have fixed it of sorts.” Commenting about his future plans, “I am planning to start a web series, which will not star a white person. I had zeroed down a Mexican person, but now, I am thinking, why not an Indian American.”

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