We wrote "All My Friends Are Dead." Ask us anything.

Do you listen to a lot of Turbonegro?

Haha. To the best of our knowledge, we were making "All my friends are dead" dinosaur shirts the year before the Turbonegro song came out. We don't want to start any beef with them, though. We can't handle beef. We're terrible in a fight and we have no health insurance.

I can honestly say that showing your book to a girl got me laid once.

Thanks.

THIS AMA IS HEATING UP! Details, buddy?!

I love your sense of humour!

More info: http://nomorefriends.net/

Hey, thanks! We did our best.

Hello excellent book writers,

I love the dinosaur. So much in fact, that I had it tattooed on my arm while me and my wife were visiting some friends in NYC.

Please don't sue me for copyright infringement :(

http://i.imgur.com/mw1oQ.jpg

OH MY CHRIST THAT IS AMAZING. If there is a polar opposite to suing you, I will do that!

Seriously: that's so awesome. You totally just made my day.

I think the opposite would be to give him money.

Or maybe I serve as dsies's lawyer, and we sue co-author Jory John. How does that sound?

"All my friends are dead" is on my end table, I force drunk friends to read it when were hanging out.

First off: Perfect place for the book! Second off: Great drunken activity! Third off: Make us a video, the next time everybody's drunk and reading!

I'll put a note on my fridge to remind my drunk future self to do this!

While you're at it, remind drunk future self to take an Advil. Head that hangover off at the pass!

(This AMA sponsored by Advil.)

What are your favorite porn websites?

www.google.com

That link is purple, should I be scared?
edit: I love your book by the way.

Thanks!

Clearly you two know how to turn a shirt into a book. Are there any shirts out there that you think are begging for books to be written based on them?

Blue button-up.

White polo.

Beige turtleneck.

what are your day jobs? (assuming you two don't make enough to live on from these books. if i am incorrect, then i'm sorry and congratulations! that's awesome)

I live mostly off the books. (I EAT ONLY RAMEN.)

I'm also an actor. I've been in a couple commercials and I perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in NY.

ha. holy shit. just looked at your performers page. i've seen Beige. you guys are really good!

Whoa! Neat! Thanks! Our next show is on Monday night, if you're free.

i usually go to Maude night. I'm a sketch comedy nerd. the only reason i know about this AMA is because of yesterday when I was refreshing reddit waiting for Odenkirk's AMA to start.

Awesome. Well, come up and say hi if you're around!

"All my friends are bread!" -Peeta Mellark Will there be a potential "All My Friends Are Dead" threequel?

Haha. That's amazing. Actually, now that I think about it, "All my friends are dead" pretty much applies to all the tributes.

Threequel: not sure! It depends on whether people buy the sequel. It also depends on whether we can come up with something that we don't think is dumb. We don't want to "George Lucas" ourselves*.

*George Lucassing: Ruining something cool by making stupid sequels. And then growing a terrible beard.

Obviously someone has to ask: How has your opinion of New York changed since moving there?

You seem too have some inside information, danfinlay.

(danfinlay's referencing our book, "I Feel Relatively Neutral About New York.") Yeah, NY has really grown on me. There are so many things to do and see and smell! I recommend it.

The scene with the puppet ಠ_ಠ

ಠ_ಠ, indeed.

The scene with the puppet is what I call a "typical Friday night."

ಠ_ಠ

Like this? http://imgur.com/Kckh3

Are you on a Mac? Can you see the "Look of Disapproval" or is all you see a couple of squares with an underscore between them?

Yes! Shoot! What am I supposed to be seeing?

Here, download the font that's on this page: http://lookofdisapproval.info/

:]

Is this a trap?

So...really....are all your friends really dead? :(

Eventually they will be. Such is life. :(

We refer to our living friends as "pre-corpses."

Two things-- I went looking for all the old blog posts about Foffies and couldn't find anything. Where are they? For three years now, my fantasy baseball team has been The Foffies. Also, how can I get AMFAD in German?

I'm so glad to hear the Foffies have lived on. As long as you believe, they'll be there.

Also: AMFAD in German.

This is pretty much my favourite toilet book. Every time I sit down to lay down some business, I get the biggest smile on my face. Thanks for the book! What made you guys choose the creamy yellow for the cover? It's delicious!

Thanks! As I recall, we were trying to pick something sunny that'd contrast with the dark content of the book. Glad it worked for you!

(Also, can we use that "lay down some business" stuff as a quote? Amazing.)

Great book! Thats all

Thanks, MrLunde! We did our best.

Hey, great book.

Were there any ideas you wanted to put in the book but could not as it is (somewhat) aimed at children?

In the sequel, there's a page where a horse says "All my friends are glue." We were going to have the next page be a little girl eating glue saying "All your friends are delicious." Actually, here, take a look: http://imgur.com/3hXMI.

NOBODY ELSE HAS EVER SEEN THIS, REDDIT. TOP SECRET SHIT!

We just thought it seemed too gross. So we changed to joke to a sad glue bottle saying "I won the Kentucky Derby three times."

I guess the answer is: we really didn't think about kids when we wrote it. We just felt like that page was a little off-putting to anyone, so we changed it.

I LOVE your book. What kind of person did you have in mind as an ideal reader for this book?

Thanks! Honestly, we just wrote what we thought was funny without imagining an audience. But if I had to pick a person, I'd say former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Cool AMA, thanks!

Which "character," if you will, in All My Friends Are Dead is your favorite? I'm quite a fan of the plant asking you to stop slowly killing his friends...

I think my favorite character to draw was the ventriloquist. There's something profoundly disturbing about that dude. Also, for a while, I couldn't get the body to look quite right, so I took some pictures of myself posing as if I were making out with a puppet. I spend a few minutes every day praying that no one sees those pictures.

Have you made any new, living friends yet?

Our mothers ask us this all the time.

what ever happened to big stone head?

Ah, good ol' Big Stone Head. For those who don't know, it was a comic Jory and I wrote a few years ago about two Easter Island stone heads. One never spoke. It was the first thing we worked on together. It was a ton of fun, but I think we're too busy now to start it up again. Glad you liked it, though!

Are you and Jory going to get naked at Comic-Con?

We will be at the Chronicle Books booth at Comic-Con, signing books.

We will be naked.

This book is hilarious, yet sad. I have a little dinosaur that sits in my car and I feel like I should read it to him.

Anyway. You guys wrote about the comedians and artists that inspire you, but what kind of music do you turn on and dance to when you brainstorm?

Thanks again for writing one of the weirdest-yet-humorous books I've ever read!

Thanks!

When I'm drawing, I usually listen to podcasts. The "All My Friends Are Dead" illustrations were fueled by Comedy Bang Bang (although I think it was Deathray at the time), Doug Loves Movies, and WTF. And Radiolab! Love me some Radiolab!

Tune-wise, I've been listening to a bunch of early Elvis Costello, recently. Or Sam Amidon if I'm trying to chill.

What are your favorite fast food places?

This is a sad-but-very-true story: the woman at my local Taco Bell knows my order by heart. I think that says way too much about me. And I think that answers your question.

Haha, that's alright, the lady at my video store knows my name and phone number, and she knows my voice over the phone.

The local Blockbuster kiosk inside Safeway knows that I rented Justin Timberlake's "In Time" the other day.

How was that, by the way?

If you're in New York, check out Maoz. Quick, cheap falafels with a huge condiments bar. TWO THUMBS UP!

Your answer is far less sad than mine is.

Cheer up, buddy! The guys at Subway know my name.

Who inspires you? Comedians? Artists?

Comedians: My favorites right now are John Mulaney and Louis CK.

Artists: I've got this awesome book of Charley Harper's stuff that I go through all the time. Also, comics by Kate Beaton. She's the best.

(Jory adds: Shel Silverstein and Matt Groening and James Thurber.)

Where's the movie?!

Beat me to it! I bet they won't answer this, because it's too edgy.

You bet wrong, Finlay. I'd love to hear your pitches! What would it be? Just "The Land Before Time"?

Whoa, you COULD probably just re-brand The Land!

My shot:

I was thinking it starts with you and Jory each waking up in the morning to discover the world is startlingly empty, like in the Twilight Zone's "Where is Everybody?". You manage to find each other downtown, and just as you utter the titular line (to Jory's chagrin, or vice versa, you'll probably fight for that line)- you encounter one of the lonely characters from your books.

That's right, it's mixed with animation, Roger Rabbit style, all in the style of the book. Anyways, these lonely characters blame you guys for creating them so lonely, but they insist they have no idea where all YOUR friends are. Anyways, you bandy up with some of them, have to be careful of others, it'd be a movie so there's a lot of different interactions that you'd have to flesh out, but ultimately maybe it turns out that one of the characters was so lonely they zapped you into your book land, so you could be lonely too, so you have to defeat him or turn him or something.

Either that or it turns out all your friends were just hiding, and then the animated friends you made along the way are like "well then I guess all your friends aren't dead after all…" but then you guys say "Neither are yours… anymore!!!" And it's a big sappy ending with you guys and all your animated characters, probably try to knock it out of the park bigger than "An Allegory."

I'm a fan of multiple endings, too, so probably just do both or more.

I am currently writing you a huge, novelty check. Your pitch has been greenlit. CONGRATS! (The check will bounce. Sorry.)

Are they?

Unfortunately, yes. We're accepting applications for replacements, though.

Applications until March 31. Interviews in April.

Please bring a list of references and be prepared to sit around and watch "Back to the Future" with us.

"Manure. I hate manure." — Biff Tannen

"Menudo. I hate Menudo." — Ricky Martin

(This is the kind of hilarious wordplay you can expect when you're friends with us.)

Awesome work, great job.

Double-thanks a double-million! (I'm more grateful than Jory.)