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The Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides
The Book of Bunny Suicides and Return of the Bunny Suicides have introduced millions of people around the world to those cute bunnies always looking for new ways to end it all. Published for the first time in a unique paperback format, with a dozen new cartoons, this is the ultimate collection for fans of the fluffy little bunnies who just don't want to live any more.
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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About the author
Andy Riley
83 books107 followersAndy 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.
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.
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December 30, 2013
Is this random or what?
Some of it is funny, some of it not so much.
Some of it is ingenious, some of it just lame.
And that, I suppose, is the whole idea.
November 7, 2021
There's something pathological about it.
Diabolically funny.
Diabolically funny.
November 22, 2025
I am so not the audience for this book.
March 1, 2016
Mille modi per morire in maniera spettacolare
I coniglietti di Andy Riley sono brutti, insulsi e proprio stupidi. La loro smania di morte è quasi offensiva, eppure non si può smettere di ridere di fronte alle loro fantasiose trovate letali.
Tra congegni complessi, incursioni nel mondo del cinema e della televisione, assurdi nascondigli e ridicole invenzioni, i coniglietti ci mostrano la precarietà della vita contemporanea e ci fanno sbellicare dalle risate.
Consiglio questo libro perché è il sunto delle migliori tavole di Riley, davvero un toccasana per il buonumore.
I coniglietti di Andy Riley sono brutti, insulsi e proprio stupidi. La loro smania di morte è quasi offensiva, eppure non si può smettere di ridere di fronte alle loro fantasiose trovate letali.
Tra congegni complessi, incursioni nel mondo del cinema e della televisione, assurdi nascondigli e ridicole invenzioni, i coniglietti ci mostrano la precarietà della vita contemporanea e ci fanno sbellicare dalle risate.
Consiglio questo libro perché è il sunto delle migliori tavole di Riley, davvero un toccasana per il buonumore.
September 30, 2015
Damn bunny. This book is too interesting that idk either to laugh or to cry. Bunny put so many efforts on attempting suicide. A book that you'd like to read (well actually you will see pictures sequences ONLY) to ease your mind. Last word, don't try those suicide tryouts at home, kay. Cheers xx
August 17, 2014
A more judicious selection of the best of these cartoons would have merited a big fat six stars in my book, the best are outrageously good, but as it is about a third of them are, in my grumpy opinion, just not funny. Two thirds out of six is four.
March 5, 2015
The only reason this gets a low rating is that it's basically a combination of the first two books with a few extra drawings. Since I already owned them, this seemed a superfluous addition and the extras weren't that funny.
March 19, 2016
In death, these bunnies give me life.
June 19, 2021
Funny
August 10, 2021
A friend gave me a calendar of bunny suicides years ago. The book is better!!
April 17, 2022
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December 7, 2024
Why is he so suicidal
December 18, 2024
I admit some pages are funny and with movie references but otherwise, too sadist for me.
August 24, 2021
Fantastically entertaining, some of the situations are unique/ very interesting.
This was the first dark comedy book I read so it holds a special place for me.
This was the first dark comedy book I read so it holds a special place for me.
June 19, 2013
I found this book by accident, when a certain friend of mine who isn't what you would call the epitome of sane, found this in the unlikeliest of places aka the school library. With all the censorship a middle school library would have, it seems as if they saw nothing dangerous in the prospect of bunnies committing suicide. Apparently, school libraries don't care whether a bunny suffers from depression.
Anyhow, after my friend showed this book to all the people she knew, curiosity all drove us to take turns looking through the thoroughly depressing yet hilarious book.
It turns out school libraries are able to surprise you.
Note: the book has very little words, and it's mostly just pictures that imply the horrible death of a cute yet extremely depressed and psychopathic bunny.
Note: it has been one of the most distubingly funny books I've ever read, which is saying something.
Note: If you like bunnies and do not want to see them in a dejected state to the point that they commit suicides (as the title implies) I suggest you do not read this book.
Caution: all affects from this book such as the want to laugh and cry at the same time, want of saving bunnies from horrible deaths, want of talking about other equally disturbing topics, trying to find the sequel because no matter how cruel the book is oddly satisfying, and more are out of my jurisdiction and therefore you are not allowed to file lawsuits against me for recommending this book.
That is all.
Anyhow, after my friend showed this book to all the people she knew, curiosity all drove us to take turns looking through the thoroughly depressing yet hilarious book.
It turns out school libraries are able to surprise you.
Note: the book has very little words, and it's mostly just pictures that imply the horrible death of a cute yet extremely depressed and psychopathic bunny.
Note: it has been one of the most distubingly funny books I've ever read, which is saying something.
Note: If you like bunnies and do not want to see them in a dejected state to the point that they commit suicides (as the title implies) I suggest you do not read this book.
Caution: all affects from this book such as the want to laugh and cry at the same time, want of saving bunnies from horrible deaths, want of talking about other equally disturbing topics, trying to find the sequel because no matter how cruel the book is oddly satisfying, and more are out of my jurisdiction and therefore you are not allowed to file lawsuits against me for recommending this book.
That is all.
April 21, 2016
This book is a lot of fun, and it only takes twenty minutes to read because there are none of those pesky words for you to worry about. The Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides is basically a collection of short comics, each of which shows a suicidal bunny trying to end it all. It might sound depressing, but it’s not – it’s just cute, and you’ll be perpetually impressed by the creativity that the author shows.
Riley has penned several similar books to this, and I recommend checking it out if you’re up for a laugh. But for me, it will always be about bunny suicides – I first heard about them through the magic of the internet, and I always love it when internet culture spawns a good book. Sure, it might not be a classic, but it is a lot of fun, and the sort of book that belongs on coffee tables across the country. So give it a read and let me know what you think!
Riley has penned several similar books to this, and I recommend checking it out if you’re up for a laugh. But for me, it will always be about bunny suicides – I first heard about them through the magic of the internet, and I always love it when internet culture spawns a good book. Sure, it might not be a classic, but it is a lot of fun, and the sort of book that belongs on coffee tables across the country. So give it a read and let me know what you think!
September 25, 2014
Dark humour at its best! I couldn't help laughing my derriere off while paging through this book at a book shop. I inadvertently made two ladies on a book isle close by very curious. After I put the book back and walked away still giggling and wiping my tears, I noticed them immediately going to have a look at the book - they looked up in my direction, and I don't think I have ever received such speechless and shocked looks from complete strangers :)
If you have a sense of humour, and perhaps feeling a little down, this is a must!
If you have a sense of humour, and perhaps feeling a little down, this is a must!
December 26, 2010
Everyone needs to get their hands on these suicidal bunnies whose depression-inspired creativity leads to ingenious and hilarious manners of felo de se. Each subsequent page will make you crave more and more side-splitting (pun intended) death! This two-book set was someone's perfect Christmas gift to me, and I recommend it to everyone.
March 3, 2013
My mum found this book and started panicking. Yay. Not because, of the fact that it had the words, "bunny" and "suicide" in the same sentence. Nup, nah-uh. SHE THOUGHT IT WAS A BLOODY CHILDRENS BOOK AND THOUGHT THAT I SHOULD STOP WASTING MY TIME WITH THIS AND GO STICK MY HEAD INTO SOME CHINESE PHILOSOPHY BULLSHIT.
No way.
But anyway the book was pretty funny.
^O^
No way.
But anyway the book was pretty funny.
^O^
November 27, 2012
If you're alive and you have a mean streak, you'll love this.
If you're an animal lover, you might start getting flashbacks.
Since I am both, I suffered from hillirous moments turning into flashbacks and vice versa.
It was fun!
If you're an animal lover, you might start getting flashbacks.
Since I am both, I suffered from hillirous moments turning into flashbacks and vice versa.
It was fun!
December 6, 2014
If you ever wondered how bunnies off themselves... this definitely helps out with a few ideas :)
Lovely cultural references spread out all over, you name a famous movie, the bunnies have probably committed at least one suicide in it :)
Lovely cultural references spread out all over, you name a famous movie, the bunnies have probably committed at least one suicide in it :)
November 12, 2007
Delightfully and adorably macabre!
January 19, 2008
Fun short form comics about little white bunnies who attempt to kill themselves in strange and contrived ways.
April 25, 2008
Morbidly funny. I guess a few people find this offensive but its cartoon bunnies for crying out loud! I highly doubt there is a mass bunny suicide epidemic out there we should be concerned about.
November 16, 2008
Morbid humor at it's best.
Cute bunny face + cheese grater = comic genius!
Cute bunny face + cheese grater = comic genius!
January 31, 2009
Extremely hilarious! The author must have a sick mind but surely has a great imagination.
June 3, 2009
hahaha...not a novel but...
September 19, 2009
Absolutely hilarious!!!
February 14, 2010
Clever and funny. :)
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