Andy Riley

So why do the bunnies want to commit suicide? What makes them spend all of their creative powers into creating Rube Goldberg machines that ultimately end in death to bunnies... The world wants to know. But, you won't find it in this book. Each cartoon shows a bunny, dying by a different way of suicide. Some by decapitation, others by being stabbed by a knife attached to gears... The cartoons are cute, but morbid. You are probably a bad person if you laugh (I did), but this is a great book show more for that person with a dark sense of humor. show less

If you want to make people curios, then naming your work "The Book of Bunny Suicides" is definitely an excellent starting point.

I, for example, instantly started thinking up various scenarios where the title would turn out to be some clever metaphor for one thing or another... Well, to be more accurate I pretended to come up with said clever things. Figures of speech and I have never really seen eye-to-eye, so all I can do is vaguely imitate the process of analyzing them. Briefly, because I show more get bored easily.

Imagine my surprise when I find out that the title of the book perfectly reflects its content. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, someone actually sat down and wrote down drew various scenarios of cute fluffy bunnies committing suicide.

There are a few ideas, that seem more comical than tragic. The vast majority of them however, are downright mean. The author must really despise those poor bunnies.

And since I don't know what else to say, I leave you with the scenario that left me pondering physics:

That's not how things should work. Or am I the only one whose window blinds are made of flimsy plastic?

Score: 3/5 because it feels like a brilliant(ly macabre) book. show less

What simpler pleasures are there in life then seeing horrible things
happen to cute animals? British artist Riley has made this small little
gem that is devoted specifically to that topic. Each drawing (usually
one panel and usually without dialog) expresses a different way for
adorable little bunnies to end their lives. It would be tedious if
Riley weren't so inventive, coming up with a series of highly ingenious
ways to exterminate the little critters. The majority of the drawings
don't even show show more the death itself, but the events that will bring it
about, letting the reader's mind fill in the gaps (some personal
favorites include a bunny standing in front of a shark tank with a
hammer in one hand and one in which a bunny is ready to throw a
boomerang with an active grenade attached). It is this ability to get
laughter from anticipation that makes this one of the more interesting
works of illustrated humor to be released in the past few years.

(This review originally appeared on zombieunderground.net) show less

This book is wrong in so many ways, yet you keep looking at it, seeing how all these poor suicidal bunnies will try to kill themselves. Every page is a treat, with innocent looking cartoon bunnies in increasingly dangerous situations, from trampolining on a helipad to avoiding getting on the ark.

If you don't like this book, you are probably a good, sweet person, who doesn't see that suicidal rabbits can make a bestseller. I envy you. For the rest of us, this is the perfect book when you want show more something that will make you giggle guiltily. show less