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:The comic "next year's edinburgh military tattoo entry"[http://frozenreality.co.uk/comic/bunny/index.php?id=974] shows an extra green bunny.
:The comic "next year's edinburgh military tattoo entry"[http://frozenreality.co.uk/comic/bunny/index.php?id=974] shows an extra green bunny.


==Relevance to Current Events, Technology, Historical Events, etc.==
Despite the overall randomness of the strips, ''Bunny'' often involves things which may be deemed as relevant and informative. Indeed, one of the things the strip does is point out inaccuracies, irony, and hypocrisy in certain events and figures.

During the [[2007 Greek forest fires]], the strip "black observational humour perchance"[http://frozenreality.co.uk/comic/bunny/index.php?id=975] was created, in which the orange Bunny points out the irony between the event and the recent [[Olympic Flame|Olympic torch lighting]] for the [[2004 Summer Olympics]], which was held in [[Athens]]. The strip was accompanied with multiple apologies for the black humor, and condolences to any losses.

The strip "perhaps someone left on the taps"[http://bunny.frozenreality.co.uk/index.php?id=922] points out the difference between [[terrorism]] in the United Kingdom, and the tax adjustments following it, and the same for the [[2007 United Kingdom floods]], questioning the definition of the "largest threat to society".

==Printed editions==
==Printed editions==



Revision as of 03:34, 28 August 2007

Bunny
Bunny № 303
Bunny № 303
Author(s)Lem (Huw Davies)
Websitehttp://bunny.frozenreality.co.uk/
Current status/scheduleUpdating Daily, With Exceptions
Launch date2004-08-22 [1]
Publisher(s)Freak Ash Books
Genre(s)Gag a day

Bunny is a daily webcomic by Lem (b. 1984-03-20), the pseudonym of a Welsh artist and college student named Huw Davies. Launched in August of 2004, Bunny follows the gag-a-day formula, with no true plotline. The subject matter of Bunny varies widely (with topics ranging from popular Internet culture, to current events to rabbit ninjas), but usually portrays the pink bunny protagonist's uncomplicated take on a given situation. Starting with Strip #861 on 2007-03-31 the comic changed from its long rectangular format to a taller and narrower horizontal rectangular format.

In February 2007 Bunny was placed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.

Bunny was nominated for the 2007 WCCA for Outstanding Single Panel Comic

Characters

The Pink Bunny
The Bunny
The Bunny
The Pink Bunny is the main character and the strip's only constant. In early strips, the Pink Bunny seemed taken by flying old airplanes[2][3], and sometimes has seemed to be gifted with insight[4] and stupidity.[5] The Pink Bunny's language relates everything to the Pink Bunny itself; everything, no matter how seemingly unrelated, is described as integral to the Bunny's being.
The Blue Bunny
The Blue Bunny (sometimes called purple) may or may not be the Pink Bunny's cousin,[6] commonly used as a random extra character.[7] The Blue Bunny's language does not describe objects per se, but instead describes where they might go or be seen, or what they might do.
The Orange Bunny
The Orange Bunny also may or may not be the Pink Bunny's cousin. The Orange bunny has always seemed quite malicious, known to love explosions, and is apparently using its life for scenes of destruction[8][9] and being annoying.[10][11] The Orange Bunny does not have a language per se; as the only one of his kind, he communicates via telepathy.
Others
The randomly appearing ninja, pirate, and stealth ninja pirate bunnies share a love for watermelons and Canada, coming in mostly to present the idea of battle or war. They are known to communicate via sign language.
The comic "Extended Family"[12] shows different colored bunnies, including green, red, yellow, and navy. Humans are very rarely drawn, and a squirrel character has appeared twice as a friend of the Pink Bunny. Bats, bunny zombies, and alien parasites have also appeared. A ninja character has made recurring, traffic courtesy-themed appearances, starting in "Now You See Him, Now You Don't."[13] Bunnies also occasionally keep small, fuzzy, orange creatures called Peevs around as pets.
The comic "next year's edinburgh military tattoo entry"[14] shows an extra green bunny.

Relevance to Current Events, Technology, Historical Events, etc.

Despite the overall randomness of the strips, Bunny often involves things which may be deemed as relevant and informative. Indeed, one of the things the strip does is point out inaccuracies, irony, and hypocrisy in certain events and figures.

During the 2007 Greek forest fires, the strip "black observational humour perchance"[15] was created, in which the orange Bunny points out the irony between the event and the recent Olympic torch lighting for the 2004 Summer Olympics, which was held in Athens. The strip was accompanied with multiple apologies for the black humor, and condolences to any losses.

The strip "perhaps someone left on the taps"[16] points out the difference between terrorism in the United Kingdom, and the tax adjustments following it, and the same for the 2007 United Kingdom floods, questioning the definition of the "largest threat to society".


Printed editions

The Bunny book contains ninety completely redrawn strips exclusively for the print version. The book was published in August 2006, with orders filled two months later. The book is published by Freak Ash Books, and distributed both by them and Lem (Huw Davies) himself.

  • Davies, Huw. The Selected Strips of Bunny: The Book of Random. Freak Ash Books. ISBN 0-9553403-0-6 (ISBN-10) and ISBN 978-0-9553403-0-7 (ISBN-13)