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Cyanide & Happiness began as a small series of comics drawn by Kris Wilson at the age of sixteen. One day while at his home suffering from strep throat, Kris entertained himself by drawing comics by hand, and would later move on to drawing them on his computer. Kris created his own website called Comicazi, that allowed him to showcase his comics to others. Kris shared his comics with the forum of Sticksuicide.com. The webmasters of Sticksuicide (Matt Melvin, Rob DenBleyker and Dave McElfatrick) eventually gave up on Sticksuicide, but they saw potential in Kris' comics, so they invited him to continue the comic daily with their help on Explosm.net, a new site less focused on Flash Stick Death animation and more on art in general, and which they still run with Wilson. The entire Explosm team now makes comics on a regular basis. The current name "Cyanide & Happiness" comes from a strip in which one character is selling cotton candy made of cyanide and happiness. The other character replies: "Happyness!?!? Hot damn! I'll take 4". In the past, Explosm has featured Guest Weeks, where readers submit entries to the administrators and the best are featured as daily comics over the course of the week. In a news post on the site on October 14, 2007 Rob announced that there was a project about to go underway to translate every comic in the archive into various languages. In a subsequent post Rob said that the response had been phenomenal with 1300 replies offering to translate into over 20 different languages.
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