Bunny (webcomic)

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Bunny
Bunny № 303
Author(s)	Lem (Huw Davies)
Website	http://bunny.frozenreality.co.uk/ RSS
Update schedule	Updating Daily, With Exceptions
Launch date	2004-08-22 [1]
Genre	Gag a day

For other uses, see Bunny.

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. Lately the comics have been incorporating schematics and jokes involving electronics.

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

1 Characters
2 Printed editions
3 Additional references
4 External links

[edit] Characters

The Pink 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 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 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]

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.

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 "Ninja Dude on Moped."[13]

[edit] 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)

[edit] Additional references

Bunny is known for making references to the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. Examples include strip #210 which refers to Ponder Stibbons' plan for generating power due to the fact that cats always land on their feet and toast always fall butter side down, as according to sods law, so therefore if you strap buttered toast to a falling cat it will begin to spin rapidly and act as a perpetual motion machine as the comic strip's comment suggests.