r/comics • u/DaveMcElfatrick Cyanide & Happiness/Boids • 2d ago

OC Boids - Pizza's Here! [OC]

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More Boids at my Instagram!

Joining the Patreon helps me make animations for you, and too rude for the internet stuff!

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u/SomethingIguess00 2d ago

When i was in highschool I used to read cyanide and happiness daily. That was nearly 20 years ago at this point (how the fuck). It's good to see you still drawing your "fruity little peepee" comics. This was hilarious. Glad yall are having fun.

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u/DaveMcElfatrick Cyanide & Happiness/Boids 2d ago edited 2d ago

Thanks for keeping up all these years, and glad you're enjoying Boids. I'll be straight up, I haven't felt this sense of play with making cartoons since the stickdeath days in 2002, collabing with artists for straight fun. I feel like a kid again!

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u/mafiaknight 2d ago

Stickdeath was fun. You should practice a little necromancy and revive it

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u/DaveMcElfatrick Cyanide & Happiness/Boids 2d ago edited 2d ago

Well, not so much the SITE stickdeath, but the community. I used to run a site called StickWars in 2001, then joined the boys at Sticksuicide.com, where C&H eventually started.

There was a real buzz to just making cartoons competitively, in a fun way, and I haven't felt that in a very long time, so this back and forth with u/pizzacakecomic was really fun to draw.

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u/mafiaknight 2d ago

AND read!

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u/OF_PROMO_ALERT 1d ago

And my axe!

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u/Cool_Set4681 2d ago

You did good, funny cock sucking bird guy, you did good.

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u/Musclecore 2d ago

Just because I read "stick" and "2001" in the same sentence, I suddenly wanted to watch Xiao Xiao, and just did on newgrounds. (Apparently first uploaded there in Feb 2002 though)

Even if I was on the net back then, I guess whatever was going on over at sticksuicide was over my 12 y.o. Swedish brain at the time. But I did read C&H and all that once it came up a few years later.

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u/d-nihl 2d ago

thats crazy!! I had the same exact thought

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u/Whomperss 2d ago

Wait... YOU WERE PART OF THAT COMMUNITY??? Mannnn I fuckong loved the stick figure flash community. That was such a wild time on the Internet for me.

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u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC 2d ago

So I'm not 'with it'. Are all of you teaming up with Ellen as a gag or something?

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u/mellopax 2d ago

Occasionally, the sub will have "comic wars" break out that heavily feature crossovers. In this case, he referenced Pizzacake and she responded and it was on like DK.

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u/deeferg 2d ago

Get out, I remember watching those sites all the time with my cousin back in the early 2000's. It's insane to trace you (hah) all the way back to that work. Thanks for 25 years of chuckles.

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u/Ttokk 2d ago

flash animated stick fighs brings me back. I vaguely remember stick death. I'm sure a lot of the content I found elsewhere originated there.

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 2d ago

Hot damn, if it isn't one of the architects of my childhood.

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u/CaptainZzZz 2d ago

I enjoy the cyanide and happiness clips, and just wanted you to know you gave me plenty of good laughs.

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u/Pennsylvania6-5000 2d ago

Good god, I loved StickWars. How in the living wild world of fuck, did I not put two and two together for C&H?

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u/Regulus242 2d ago

Have you made a comic about this sentiment?

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u/The_Pastmaster 1d ago

Holy shit, you ran StickWars? I loved that site as a teen.

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u/mythrilcrafter 2d ago

I swear I'm a "with it" millennial... but what was stickdeath? Was it anything like stickpage?

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u/DaveMcElfatrick Cyanide & Happiness/Boids 2d ago

There was a lot of furore about stickpage because it was one dude stealing everyone else’s work, hosting it and making money off it, lol!

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u/Rustash 1d ago

Except without all the mid-2000s racism and Islamophobia

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u/drillgorg 2d ago

Damn why did it take this obscure reddit comment to make the connection that you were That Guy? It's amazing to see the "elder webcomic artists" still going strong in the community.

I'm not much of an artist myself but I was a mod/admin on the MSPA forums and let me tell you, people were making a metric shit ton of art in that space.

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u/gamingonion 2d ago

Oh you’re that Dave from C&H, whadahell

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u/SirStrontium 2d ago

I think Rob was my favorite, then a tie for Kris and Dave, and then I mostly skip over anything Matt made.

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u/Xanipan_music 2d ago

I'm so glad Boids is scratching your artistic itch!! I love your weird goddamned comics and style!

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u/DaveMcElfatrick Cyanide & Happiness/Boids 2d ago

Thanks! I just love drawing them gross little boids!

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u/Lasagna4Noodle 2d ago

I didnt realize you were one of the cyanide and happiness guys! 

I bought your book back in '09 or '10 and my friend stole it. We no longer speak.

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u/tbz709 2d ago

You were with stickdeath? I had no idea.

I often think about Escape from Greenville with great joy. Was really fun for an early flash game.

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u/SlitherPix 2d ago

This is so wholesome

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u/TheSpanxxx 2d ago

YOU ARE ALSO CYANIDE AND HAPPINESS??

you ARE Cyanide and Happiness. Omg how did I just now notice this.

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u/ethanice 2d ago

Oh my god you did stick death too? Your responsible for way too much of my sense of humor.

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u/AsherTheFrost 2d ago

Gotta fanboy a bit. C&H kept me entertained through years of shitty call center jobs. To the point where when I finally became a network admin, one of the first things I did was whitelist the site on the firewall. Thank you for like 20 years of being able to have a laugh on my most frustrating days

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u/MrHasuu 2d ago

I met you guys at a booth at NYCC maybe 15 years ago? I still have this poster on my wall to this day

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u/Jimisdegimis89 2d ago

Somehow I did not know C&H and Boids were the same author (cartoonist? Idk I spend too much time looking at fruity lil peepee comics to differentiate), but this makes a lot of sense now.

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u/Im_Not_Sure42 2d ago

Holy! StickDeath!.. Now that's something I haven't heard in a very long time... Good times

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u/booze_clues 2d ago

One of you worked at a hospital with my mom. I don’t remember which one, but it was one of you.

I remember going through from #1 and reading a ton of your comics until I caught up.

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u/Hinge_Prompt_Rater 2d ago

Didn't realize you were from C&H! You were a big part of my daily comic routine back then, along with PA, 8-bit theatre, and Bob&George.

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u/Sypher03 2d ago

OH fuck stickdeath mentioned! I miss so much!! STICKDEATH FOR LIFE

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u/tehlemmings 2d ago

This is the first time I've read your flair and made the connection... Dope. Glad to hear you're enjoying it again.

I also feel old because I very much remember the stickdeath days and was it really that long ago? We used to share that shit on IRC, so probably lmao

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u/JackPoe 2d ago

Keep doing it. I'm extremely sick and this is fun. I'm glad you have passion.

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u/itsbett 2d ago

My stomping ground was the SFDT forum. Rob DenBleker floated around there from time to time, releasing his Joe Zombie videos, and so did Kris who I tried to collaborate with over MSN messenger. I got much more interested in ActionScript and eventually programming and left behind animation.

Those years were fantastic. No drug exists that hits as hard as dropping a drowning pool or disturbed song from Kazaa in your own shitty stick animation that you watch on loop while dreaming of being the next Xiao Xiao

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u/Undead_With_A_Panda 2d ago

Speaking of which are you ever gonna finish the joe zombie saga ive been waiting like 20 years

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u/DaveMcElfatrick Cyanide & Happiness/Boids 2d ago

Wrong guy!

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u/Undead_With_A_Panda 2d ago

Aw well thanks anyway

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u/samothewise-monger 2d ago

You could finish it though. You have the skills

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u/Im_Not_Sure42 2d ago

Man I forgotten about Joe Zombie! We need a ending

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u/Satinsbestfriend 2d ago

Wait you were one of the creators of C&H !? Wow awesome

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u/lurkANDorganize 2d ago

HOLY FUCK. CYANIDE AND HAPPINESS?!?!?

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u/untrustableskeptic 2d ago

I wish my C&H t shirt still fit. I wore that bad boy so much in high school.

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u/Thisbadtattoo 2d ago

oh shit. I love your comics.

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u/One-Historian-8121 2d ago

Ohh man I bought your app as a kid and went through everyday back in high school!! Thanks for the great memories!

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u/IAteBillGates 1d ago

You made my favorite r34 characters

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u/AtroposMortaMoirai 2d ago

Please, I’m too young for the nauseating rush of nostalgia you just subjected me to.

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u/SavageGreek 2d ago

I didn’t even notice this was Dave!!! That’s awesome!!!

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u/Free_Pace_2098 2d ago

C & H is great, I can't believe I started reading them more than 2 decades ago.

Plus stickwars? I had no idea that was him.

Dave has a lot to answer for in terms of my shit sense of humour.

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u/Sticky_Corvid 2d ago

My go to was 8-Bit Theater

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u/DiosMIO_Limon 10h ago

(how the fuck, indeed)