Return of the Bunny Suicides

Infobox Book
name = Return of the Bunny Suicides
title_orig =
translator =


image_caption = First edition cover
author = Andy Riley
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = (Bunny Suicides)
subject =
genre = Humour
publisher = Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd
release_date = October 11, 2004
media_type = Hardcover, paperback
pages = 96 pages
isbn = ISBN 0-340-83403-X (hardcover)
preceded_by = The Book of Bunny Suicides
followed_by =

"Return of the Bunny Suicides" (2004) is the second book of black comedy cartoons by Andy Riley that depict the various ways bunnies attempt to kill themselves. It was a bestseller.

Overview

Like its predecessor "The Book of Bunny Suicides", it features mostly one-image cartoons, although there are some two- and three-image cartoons.

This book features more Rube Goldberg machines than the first one. However, Riley was drawing more from the British cartoonist W. Heath Robinson, a British contemporary of Goldberg's with a similar interest in implausible machinery. The term "Heath Robinson contraption" is used in Britain in exactly the way "Rube Goldberg machine" is used in the U.S.

This book also contains more parodies of various recent cultural and historical events of the time. For example, there is one image of a bunny tying himself to Gollum, seeking the ring at the top of the hill, and also a bunny pouring pepper into Sauron's eye from "The Lord of the Rings", and an image of the .

The book proved so popular that pirate scans started to circulate heavily online as "Bunnies Suicide" prompting the publisher to send a DMCA request to Google, which was indexing the site and its images.cite web | title = "Bunny Suicides" Publisher Claims Copyright Infringement | work = Chilling Effects Clearinghouse | date = February 25, 2005 | url = http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=43 | format = HTML | accessdate = 2006-10-15 ]

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