Dawn of the Bunny Suicides

Bunny Suicides #3

by Andy Riley

Book by Andy Riley

Genres: Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Animals, Comedy, Comic Book

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Andy Riley is a cartoonist and scriptwriter from Britain.
He drew a weekly strip cartoon for The Observer Magazine called Roasted, which is also collected in hardback edition. So far his books have sold around one and a half million copies and have been published in eighteen countries, producing calendar, greetings card and poster spin-offs. Lucky Heather is his self-published mini-comic.
His comedy scriptwriting is done in partnership with Kevin Cecil. They have won two BAFTAS, for the sitcom Black Books in 2005 and the animated special Robbie The Reindeer in 2000. They created and wrote the sitcoms The Great Outdoors and Hyperdrive for the BBC, and Slacker Cats for the ABC Family Channel. Other television writing credits include Little Britain, The Armando Iannucci Shows, Come Fly With Me, Trigger Happy TV, So Graham Norton, Smack The Pony, The Armstrong and Miller Show, Bob and Margaret, Spitting Image, Harry and Paul, Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show, Alexei Sayle’s Merry Go Round, Man Stroke Woman and Big Train. Their Radio 4 panel game, The 99p Challenge, won a Sony silver award.
As well as writing comedy, they are experienced writers of feature-length animation: their credits include Gnomeo and Juliet (released February 2011) and The Pirates! (in production at Aardman). They did an uncredited rewrite of Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride.
Andy is originally from Aylesbury but now lives in London. He used to be the stage dancer for The Pod, Julian Barratt’s comedy techno band which was the forerunner of The Mighty Boosh. His hobbies include urban canoeing.
Despite rival claims on the internet, Andy Riley is the true originator of the tradition of cross-dressing at the Towersey folk festival.

Reviews

[Fereshteh · Rating 3 out of 5]

یعنی من مرده ی ایده های عجیب غریب و خنده داراندی رایلی شدم حقیقتن
!!! این همه خلاقیت و توجه به دنیای اطراف
تلاش های یک خرگوش برای مردن

[Fateme Beygi · Rating 3 out of 5]

نمی دونم بگم خرگوش ها چقدر راه های متفاوتی برای خودکشی سراغ دارن یا بگم کارتونیستشون خیلی ریزبین و خلاق بوده.
با قسمتای
دکتر هو
ترنسفورمرز
و ایکس من
خیلی ارتباط گرفتم. به شدت بانمک بود به خصوص دکتر هوش.

[Lisa Vegan · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was probably my mood now vs. then, but I didn’t find this book as funny as the previous two bunny suicides books that I read. I did get a kick out of some of the frames with books, movies, and other cultural references. I enjoyed it enough so that I’m glad I read it, but I wasn’t laughing myself silly as I did with the other two books. I smiled quite a few times, but no chuckles at all. A lot of time has elapsed since I read the other two books so my reaction isn’t from bunny burnout. I gave the other books 4 stars each and since this one I didn’t find anywhere near as amusing, 2 stars only. It was okay, and because I’d expected more, it was disappointing. I'd be up for trying another book in the same "series" though.

[Flo]

I may have a problem...

[Mohammad Ali Shamekhi · Rating 3 out of 5]

نظرمو ذیل اولین کتاب مجموعه گفتم، یعنی کتاب زیر

[Sarah Alirezaee · Rating 5 out of 5]

awesome!! :))
I love Riley's creativity!

[Zuzana Dankic · Rating 3 out of 5]

Morbidne a ftipne 😊

[Veronika Pizano · Rating 3 out of 5]

Je to vtipné, ale nemá to žiadnu pridanú hodnotu.

[Jemppu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Aaand even more of adorably morbid and inventive delights. Still just as succinctly presented as it's predecessors.

[Ivychok18 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE THIS BOOK! This is a hilariously unique book of the many ways a bunny can commit suicide. This book got especially popular with my class and everyone liked the suicide bunny. Highly recommended!

[Kritikal Reading · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my first read of 2017 and I am not creeped out. AT ALL. No, really.
Since I'd already read through the first two books in the series, the theme didn't intimidate me like it had, the first time.

But I have to say this: Dawn turned out to be the best of the books in the series for me. The subtlety was somehow much darker and hit the right spots.

My favorite illustrations remain the ones where the bunnies go out of the way to make special arrangements to develop a set-up where death is contingent upon some other event. It just add to the coldness all around.

Winters are an even better time to feel the chills of this book.

[Shiela Chan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A silly, demented and funny comic book about bunnies trying to find ways to kill themselves. The theme is a bit dark but they're drawn in a comical manner. There's no back story why these bunnies want to die. My reaction varies from a chuckle, to ugh no, and to a 'nuuu bunny don't!'

There's a review at the back of the book that says...
"Very imaginative, very funny, very worrying if you're the author's mother" -Richard Curtis

Indeed.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel like I need to put cameras in my rabbits rooms and have them on 24 hour watch.

[angelofmine1974 · Rating 4 out of 5]

My review of this book can be found on my Youtube Vlog at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6wQr...

Enjoy!

[Eressea · Rating 4 out of 5]

好像沒有很必要買，不到一百頁一下就看完了
雖然很幽默，但似乎沒有一看再看的價值Orz

[Alex · Rating 5 out of 5]

Megadivertido

[blan · Rating 4 out of 5]

efectivamente el título no engaña. mola mola

[Tracey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was cringe, groan and giggle worthy. Pretty much what I expected and hoped it would be.

[Alex Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

The death drive is the will to repeat a motion, even at the expense of life. There is no other course here, than to perform the material motion, regardless of its outcome.

Cute bunnies juxtapose against the purely mechanical and impersonal, even if that action is the senseless repetition of humans in pursuit of innocent and inane desires.

This is how our world is characterized; as a cold mechanical repetition of drive, given endless permission to do its own thing. Because as producers or consumers, our actions and desires only exist as a cut up narrative, without hook into the larger production of life. The military-industrial complex is too big for anyone to comprehend. Its logistics cannot be captured in anything except abstractly as a balance sheet. Its bureaucratic organization is made only to repeat narrow channels of action. Dawn of the Bunny Suicides expresses this capitalist-industrial sentiment when we begin to notice only the here and now, as our organic experience of life; our lifeworld is split, cut and presented as a series of present moments only, in which there is nothing but repetition of desire and mechanical to-do motion.

[Ellice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just as in The Book of Bunny Suicides and Return of the Bunny Suicides, these poor rabbits don’t want to go on. One wearing a pirate hat and eye patch tosses a key overboard from the prow of a small boat to the noticeably padlocked and conveniently labeled “lime storage” container. Another, wearing a napkin tied around its neck, holds a knife and fork while contemplating a mushroom patch, while a book called “Know Your Wild Mushrooms” burns behind him. A third fails, despite warnings, to evacuate the chamber of the large hadron collider. As with the first two books, this is dark humor—but for those who appreciate that genre, it’s very funny.

[Stacey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Several years ago, on a Literary tour, I found these in a bookshop in Oxford. I opened The Return of the Bunny Suicides first and laughed so loud at the first drawing that everyone stopped to look at me. So I bought both.
While I skipped over the Bumper book, as it was rehash of the first two. I did buy this one.
I LOVE it. Not every drawing is hilarious, but I don't regret it.
Yes, I'm morbid and friends' reactions when I show it to them make me question my sanity.
But this is hilarious!
Bad day? Read this book. It will make you laugh. And it's darn clever too.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Those clever, despondent, efficient bunnies sure do know how to kill themselves. I especially liked the popcorn death and the death by bird, string, and gun (look it up - it's totally worth it). I just sometimes wonder why they feel the need to do themselves in - maybe Riley needs to write the book that should come before these - you know, the therapy tales (tails?). Maybe their shrinks could explain what's going on...

[Istisiki · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is so funny! And then you realize what's happening and then it's morbid but still funny. It reminds me of an old officemate who'd make jokes about death, cancer, homophobia and oddly enough we still laugh but had it been anyone else making the joke, it wouldn't have been funny at all. I got the same feeling while reading through the comics. Fun.

[Kaija]

Funny and demented book of funny pictures of depressed bunnies who want their life over with. They do many things to attempt suicide like complex machines to die in a horrible way.(This book has no blood!) If you are a fan of the macabre(like me!) you will love this in every way!

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

The series just keeps on going and does not seem to be showing signs of running of material or creativity, the cartoons are unto today with references to Wolverine for example and you just never know what you will see as you turn the page.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarious! I really liked death by Quittich match and by a Walker from Star Wars. I still can't figure out why those bunnies want to commit suicide!

[Gwen · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is funny how creative these bunnies are in planning their suicides

[Luke]

incredibly funny in a macabre sort of way, definitely not something to give to your 8yr old daughter but a great way to put a smile on your face

[Roberta Frontini (Blogue FLAMES) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Este autor é realmente muito criativo :)

[دانیال بهزادی · Rating 3 out of 5]

در این کتاب نسبت به دو کتاب قبلی، چندان خبری از اون ایده‌های خلّاقانه نبود و بیش‌تر خشونت‌آمیز بود