Meet the Artist: Cyanide & Happiness Pt. 1
Embrace your birthday suit for Pt.1 of our artist interview - it’s a banger!💥
Warning: dark and wicked humour is in use. Tee hee!
Sending a big, wet slippery kiss to the Explosm folk - Dave, Kris, & Rob - for doing what they do best - making us larf.
Q1: Who is funnier - Dave or Rob?
Since I’m answering, obviously me. -Dave
I’ve been told that I’m “haha” funny while Dave is “is he OK?” funny. -Rob
Damn, this is awkward. -Kris
Q2: Do you embrace being in your birthday suit?
Oh yes, I’m a sight around the house- like an uncooked headless turkey skulking from room to room like a flesh ghost- sometimes I give myself a fright! - Dave
When I’m wearing my birthday suit, I don’t embrace anyone because that would be a crime. -Kris
Q3: With the suit symbols cleverly covering the card characters’ sensitive bits - which suit do you love most and why?
I feel like the Spades are definitely the classiest, sexiest suit in our deck. That Queen… oooh mama! She might be the hottest stick figure ever created. Also the King Of Spades… ahh, the king. It’s hard to not have a soft spot for him, and it looks like he has a soft spot for me, too. -Dave
Q4: Will we see any of the Tasteful Nudes in a comic strip one day?
I’m sure we have enough nudity in our comics to make a six deck at this stage! -Dave
I’m usually nude while drawing the comics, but there’s nothing tasteful about it. -Rob
Q5: How did the idea for the deck theme come about?
So many other decks had such beautiful and unique artistry that we decided to grab the player’s attention in a different way. It’s fun to draw a nude (ask any classical painter, or Deviantart user) and who can resist a shiny bit of cheek as they scroll through their solitaire collection? -Dave
Q6: With the pressure of giving the world their daily dose of bite-size surrealism do you have to draw on holiday and in your sleep too?!
Yes, it’s awful! I’m up all hours drawing all sorts of abominations, even when Santa is making his way down the chimney. I’m counting on these cards to finally retire, where I can serve a quiet life of solitude on all that nudey moolah. -Dave
Q7: How autobiographic are your comic shorts?
Some of them are actual situations that have happened. Some of those situations aren’t even embellished. Thankfully though, this doesn’t happen often, cause we’d otherwise worry for our safety! We’re not as psychopathic and insane as the comics suggest.
Q8: Congrats on the point-and-click adventure trilogy Freakpocalypse. What video game have you spent the most hours playing and why?
Excellent question. Honestly? Either Smash Bros on the 64 or Quake 3: Arena. I was quite competitive at both back in my day, but it became a classic case of big fish in a small town. I was whupping everyone in a Quake 3 tournament one day in a cyber cafe (back in ye olde 2000) until a ‘clan’ of guys entered the room all silhouetted, like how bad cowboys walk into town in movies, and completely destroyed me. Humbled! -Dave
I keep going back to Team Fortress 2. -Rob
Thank you! As far as games I’m playing go, Fallout NV, Kenshi, and Rimworld have me by the proverbial balls because they’re nearly endless. -Kris
Q9: Can you go to your local shop for a loaf of bread without having to sign autographs or body parts?
I go to the meat section and sign them for fun, anyway, if that’s what you mean by body parts. -Dave
Pt. 2 will be hot to trot soon! 🔥🔥🔥
