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  5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth

  Copyright © 2011 by Matthew Inman. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews. For information, write Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, an Andrews McMeel Universal company, 1130 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106.

  E-ISBN: 978-1-4494-0675-2

  Library of Congress Control Number: 2010930546

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  INTRODUCTION

  Up until the spring of 2009, I created websites for a living. I started when I was a teenager and endured fourteen years of soul-sucking meetings, hot pink logos, and clients who demanded that their corporate website play music and display animated photos of their pet. Fed up and looking for a career change, I quit my job as a designer and started drawing comics. The Oatmeal was born and subsequently made its home at http://theoatmeal.com.

  After launching the website, people liked it enough that I eventually got to turn it into a book. 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth is that book, and it contains all the comics I created in the year after I quit my job to become a comic artist. It also has an additional twenty-seven never-before-seen comics that aren’t available on the web.

  This book contains gorillas, prostitution, poop jokes, small quantities of chainsaws, large quantities of man nipples, and one drug-addicted dinosaur. Its purpose is to entertain, inform, and offend.

  I hope you like it. If not, I hope a large meteor finds its way across the universe and smashes directly into your crotch while you sleep.

  Hugs and kisses!

  —The Oatmeal

 

 

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