"Cyanide and Happiness began as a small series of comics drawn by Kris Wilson at the age of 16. One day whilst ill at his home with strep-throat, Kris entertained himself by drawing comics by hand, and would later move on to drawing them on his computer. Before long Kris created his own little website called Comicazi, that allowed him to showcase his comics to others. Kris shared his comics with the forum of Sticksuicide.com. The webmasters of Sticksuicide (Matt Melvin, Rob Denbleyker and Dave McElfatrick) eventually gave up on StickSuicide and started Explosm.net, a new site less focused on Flash Stick Death animation and more on art in general. They saw potential in Kris' comics, so they used their new site to host his work. Explosm is currently run by Matt, Rob, Dave, Kris and forum administrator Lee (known under his forum sign-in name as "Kwanza"). The entire Explosm team (excluding Lee) now make comics. Most are based on Kris' style, although there are occasional departures from that form."
