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'''''xkcd''''' is a [[webcomic]] created by [[Randall Munroe]]. The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language."<ref name="aboutxkcd" group="‡">{{cite web|title=About xkcd|work=xkcd|url=http://xkcd.com/about/|accessdate=March 25, 2011}}</ref> It has received mention from ''[[The Guardian]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/18/internet-websites|title=100 top sites for the year ahead|date=December 18, 2008|accessdate=March 25, 2011|location=London |work=The Guardian |first1=Charles|last1=Arthur|first2=Jack|last2=Schofield|first3=Aleks|last3=Krotoski|first4=Keith|last4=Stuart|first5=Greg|last5=Howson|first6=Mike|last6=Anderiesz|first7=Michael|last7=Cross|first8=Victor|last8=Keegan}}</ref> and ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/business/media/20link.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y|title=When Pixels Find New Life on Real Paper|date=April 19, 2009|accessdate=March 25, 2011|work=The New York Times|first=Noam|last=Cohen}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/business/media/26link.html|title=This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix|work=The New York Times|first=Noam|last=Cohen|date=May 26, 2008|accessdate=May 30, 2008|quote=... Randall Munroe, the 23-year-old creator of ''xkcd'', a hugely popular online comic strip (at least among computer programmers)...}}</ref>
'''''xkcd''''' is a [[webcomic]] created by [[Randall Munroe]]. The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language."<ref name="aboutxkcd" group="‡">{{cite web|title=About xkcd|work=xkcd|url=http://xkcd.com/about/|accessdate=March 25, 2011}}</ref> It has received mention from ''[[The Guardian]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/18/internet-websites|title=100 top sites for the year ahead|date=December 18, 2008|accessdate=March 25, 2011|location=London |work=The Guardian |first1=Charles|last1=Arthur|first2=Jack|last2=Schofield|first3=Aleks|last3=Krotoski|first4=Keith|last4=Stuart|first5=Greg|last5=Howson|first6=Mike|last6=Anderiesz|first7=Michael|last7=Cross|first8=Victor|last8=Keegan}}</ref> and ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/business/media/20link.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y|title=When Pixels Find New Life on Real Paper|date=April 19, 2009|accessdate=March 25, 2011|work=The New York Times|first=Noam|last=Cohen}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/business/media/26link.html|title=This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix|work=The New York Times|first=Noam|last=Cohen|date=May 26, 2008|accessdate=May 30, 2008|quote=... Randall Munroe, the 23-year-old creator of ''xkcd'', a hugely popular online comic strip (at least among computer programmers)...}}</ref>

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xkcd
Panel from "Philosophy" (#220)
Author(s)Randall Munroe
Websitexkcd.com
Current status/scheduleMondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays
Launch dateSeptember 2005[1]
Genre(s)Geek humor

xkcd is a webcomic created by Randall Munroe. The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language."[‡ 1] It has received mention from The Guardian[2] and The New York Times.[3][4]

The subject matter of the comic varies, including statements on life and love (some love strips are simply art with poetry), and mathematical or scientific in-jokes. Some strips feature simple humor or pop-culture references. Although it has a cast of stick figures,[5][6] the comic occasionally features landscapes, intricate mathematical patterns such as fractals (for example, strip No. 17 "What If"[‡ 2] shows an Apollonian gasket), or imitations of the style of other cartoonists (as during "Parody Week").[7]

The comic is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.[‡ 3] New comics are added three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays;[‡ 1][8] although, on seven occasions so far, they have been updated every weekday: Parody Week, the "Choices" series, the "1337" series, the "Secretary" series, the "The Race" series, the set of three "Five Minute Comics", and Guest Comic Week.

As of July 3, 2012, there has been a branch off of xkcd called "xkcd What-Ifs", updated every Tuesday. These attempt to answer unusual viewer submitted science questions in a humorous, though mathematically sound way, doing so in a format much more akin to an article.

History

Randall Munroe, the creator of xkcd

The comic began in September 2005 when Munroe decided to scan doodles from his school notebooks and put them on his webpage. Eventually the comic was changed into a stand-alone website, where Munroe started selling T-shirts based on the comic. He currently "works on the comic full time,"[‡ 1] making Munroe one of the few professional webcomic artists. According to Munroe, the comic's name has no particular significance and is simply a four-letter word without a phonetic pronunciation, something he describes as "a treasured and carefully guarded point in the space of four-character strings." The name of the comic is spelled in all lowercase letters, or all capitals.[‡ 1]

In May 2007, the comic garnered widespread attention by depicting online communities in geographic form.[9] Various websites were drawn as continents, each sized according to their relative popularity and located according to their general subject matter.[9] This put xkcd at number two on the Syracuse Post-Standard's "The new hotness" list.[10]

In October 2008, The New Yorker magazine online published an interview and "Cartoon Off" between Randall Munroe and Farley Katz. For the "Cartoon-Off," Katz and Munroe each drew: "the Internet, as envisioned by the elderly", "String Theory", "1999", and "your favorite animal eating your favorite food".[11]

In March, 2010, a puzzle hidden inside of the collection xkcd: Volume 0 was cracked by many members of the xkcd forums. The solution was "<3<3<3 2010-06-26 14:28:57 37°46′10″N 122°28′59″W / 37.769573°N 122.483123°W / 37.769573; -122.483123."[‡ 4] The first six characters were hearts, followed by a date, time, and coordinates. (June 26, 2010, 2:28:57 pm at Golden Gate Park, specifically at the coordinates specified by Google Earth if you search for Golden Gate Park.) At the appropriate time and date, Randall again met with fans and handed out 255 limited edition prints of xkcd: Volume 0, titled xkcd: Volume 0 Service Pack 1.[‡ 5]

For April Fools Day 2012, Comic no. 1037 ("Umwelt") displayed different comics depending on browser, location, and IP range[‡ 6][‡ 7]

On September 19, 2012, Comic no. 1110 ("Click and Drag"), featured a panel which can be explored via clicking and dragging its insides.[‡ 8] It immediately triggered positive response on social websites and forums.[12]. The large image measures 165,888 pixels wide by 79,822 pixels high[13]

Recurring items

While there is no specific storyline to the comic, there are some recurring themes[14] and characters, many of which are touched on in an xkcd parody of the Discovery Channel's I Love the World commercial.[‡ 9]

Themes

"Wikipedian Protester", with mouseover text "SEMI-PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION"
"Malamanteau",[‡ 10] with mouseover text "The article has twenty-three citations, one of which is an obscure manuscript from the 1490's and the other twenty-two are arguments on Language Log."

A large number of the strips contain mathematics or computer science jokes. These jokes often feature university-level subjects, although many are written in such a way that a clear understanding of the subject is not required to get the punch line. Romance is another subject often visited in the comic, with many strips not intended to be humorous;[14] Munroe is a self-declared fan of Kurt Halsey's bleak romances. There are also many strips opening with "My Hobby:" and usually depicting the nondescript narrator character describing some type of humorous or quirky behavior often involving language games.[‡ 11][‡ 12][‡ 13]

References to Wikipedia articles or to Wikipedia as a whole have occurred several times in xkcd.[15][16][17][18][19] A facsimile of a made-up Wikipedia entry for "malamanteau" (a stunt word created by Munroe to poke fun at Wikipedia's writing style)[‡ 10] provoked a controversy within Wikipedia that was picked up by various media.[20][21] xkcd also frequently makes reference to Munroe's "obsession" with potential raptor attacks,[22] and has used many "your mom" jokes.[‡ 14][‡ 15][‡ 16][‡ 17] Multiple earlier strips featured "Red Spiders",[‡ 18] and others refer to Joss Whedon's science fiction series Firefly.[‡ 19]

Each comic also has a tooltip, specified using the title attribute in HTML. The text usually contains an afterthought or annotation related to that day's comic.[23]

Characters

Although Munroe does not maintain a list of characters on his web site, some recurring characters can be identified by their visual features (for example, hats) and mannerisms.

  • A man who looks like a normal stick-figure xkcd character, but for the addition of a black hat. The man's hat is a reference to Aram from the now-defunct webcomic Men in Hats, not to black hat hackers as is often supposed.[24][‡ 20] This character first appeared in the comic "Poisson" (the twelfth comic published on the website).[‡ 21] The character refers to himself as a "Classhole" (a portmanteau of "classy" and "asshole").[‡ 22] He does not shy from pointing out the failures of others and has at times used extreme violence in order to emphasize a point.[‡ 23][‡ 24] In the January 30, 2008 comic, his hat was taken by a woman, though he later retrieved his hat by stealing a submarine and using it to crash through the ice where she was skating. The character is one of the most frequently occurring in the comic, though he remains unnamed (he was referred to in multiple comics as "hat guy").[‡ 20][‡ 25] In the "Secretary" story arc, he is nominated for the post of Secretary of the Internet when the Internet started to collapse, but after a variety of hijinks involving Ron Paul, Cory Doctorow, and the Auto-Troll Shuffle (described as him taking a whole car apart, swapping the parts with the same parts of random cars in the same parking lot, and then building a new car out of those), is sentenced to death, escaping by filling the Capitol rotunda with plastic ball pit-style balls, which distracts the pursuers, while he flees on Doctorow's hot-air balloon.[‡ 26] His apartment is outfitted with a moat.[25]
  • The most common recurring female "character" is known as Megan in several strips; she was first referred to by name in comic No. 159 – "Boombox",[‡ 27] and again several times afterward although she may have appeared earlier as an unnamed character notably in comic 108.[‡ 28][‡ 29][‡ 30] She is recognized by her short, dark hair.
  • Psychotic female, distinguished by long dark hair, a general proximity to black hat guy and a tendency towards excessive violence, both verbal and physical has been a recurrent character for some time and is in some form of relationship with the equally psychotic black hat guy. Her first appearance is in comic 377, "Journal 2" and since the closure of the Journal storyline has been seen in the company of black hat guy causing chaos, damage, vandalism and abuse with no apparent remorse or reason. She might be the character in comic 177, "Alice and Bob", where she's referred to as Eve.
  • A boy in a barrel appeared in five early strips. Unlike most other characters, he is not a stick figure. He was repeatedly seen inside a barrel, floating in a large body of water. The boy in the barrel was one of many doodles in the older comics, but has not been seen since comic No. 31, in which he flew away with a ferret wearing a toy airplane.[‡ 31]
  • Another set of recurring characters is the nihilist and the beret-wearing existentialist. Until comic No. 291, they had only been seen together, never separately. They are first seen in the "Nihilism" comic,[‡ 32] and again in "Kayak,"[‡ 33] "Hypotheticals",[‡ 34] and "Dark Flow."[‡ 35]
  • A pet Ferret with wings similar to a plane’s on its back with the rudders of a plane’s tail on its tail appeared in comics including barrel part 5 [‡ 31] and a guest comic[‡ 36].
  • Fictionalised versions of well known real-life figures in the computing and scientific community sometimes appear, such as free software advocates Richard Stallman[‡ 37][‡ 38] and Cory Doctorow,[‡ 38][‡ 39] and physicist Richard Feynman.[‡ 40][‡ 41] Other celebrities such as actress Summer Glau also appear in xkcd.[‡ 42]
  • Gary Gygax makes an appearance in the comic "Ultimate Game"[‡ 43]
  • Mrs. Roberts was a main character in the "1337"[‡ 44] series, and has appeared in other comics along with her children, Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;-- aka "Little Bobby Tables" (a reference to SQL injection), and Elaine Roberts (although her first name is really "Help I'm trapped in a drivers license factory"), the protagonist of the "1337" series.[‡ 45][‡ 46]
  • Firefly character River Tam—and actress Summer Glau, who played her—has appeared in a few comics, usually in a dream sequence where a character in the strip makes reference to her.[‡ 47] Other Firefly cast members, such as Nathan Fillion, have appeared in the series [‡ 48] and many turn out to have similar personalities to their Firefly characters.

Inspired activities

A fan of "Wikipedian Protester" on a playground in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2007
Richard Stallman is "attacked" by "ninjas"
Inspired by "Open Source"[‡ 37]
Cory Doctorow wears a red cape, goggles and a balloon as he receives the 2007 EFF Pioneer Award
Inspired by "Blagofaire"[‡ 39]

On several occasions, fans have been motivated by Munroe's comics to carry out, in real life, the subject of a particular drawing or sketch. Some examples include:

Awards and recognition

xkcd has been recognized at the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards. In the 2008 Awards, it was nominated for "Outstanding Use of the Medium," "Outstanding Short Form Comic," and "Outstanding Comedic Comic," and won "Outstanding Single Panel Comic."[41] xkcd was also voted Best Comic Strip by readers in the 2007 Weblog Awards[42] and 2008 Weblog Awards.[43] It was also nominated for a 2009 NewNowNext Award in the category 'OMFG Internet Award'.[44][45] Randall Munroe was nominated for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist.[46]

Translations

xkcd comics have been translated into a number of languages. One group of readers has translated every comic into French[‡ 68] and nearly half of the comics have been translated into Russian.[‡ 69] One reader has translated many of the comics into Spanish; translations exist for comics that, according to the translator, can be translated without losing their humor.[‡ 70] Various xkcd comics have also been translated into German,[‡ 71] Finnish,[‡ 72] Czech,[‡ 73] Portuguese,[‡ 74] Esperanto,[‡ 75] and Lojban.[‡ 76]

Book

In September 2009, Munroe released a book, entitled xkcd: volume 0, containing selected xkcd comics.[‡ 77] The book was published by breadpig, under a Creative Commons license, with all of the publisher's profits donated to Room to Read to promote literacy and education in the developing world. Six months after release, the book had sold over 25,000 copies. The book tour in New York City and Silicon Valley was a fundraiser for Room to Read that raised $32,000 to build a school in Laos.[47]

In October 2012, xkcd: volume 0 was included in the Humble Bundle eBook Bundle. It was available for download only to those who donated higher than the average donated for the other eBooks. The book was released DRM-free, in two different quality PDF files.[48]

References

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Individual comics, translations and other affiliated sources

In the text these references are preceded by a double dagger: ‡

  1. ^ a b c d "About xkcd". xkcd. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  2. ^ "What If". xkcd. February 22, 1999. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
  3. ^ "License". xkcd. Retrieved June 25, 2007.
  4. ^ "aspragg" (March 9, 2009). "xkcd • View topic – Puzzles from the xkcd book (big puzzle SOLVED!)". xkcd.com. Retrieved April 21, 2011.
  5. ^ "Aaeriele" (June 27, 2010). "xkcd • View topic – OFFICIAL! MEETUP: San Francisco, CA – June 26, 2010". xkcd.com. Retrieved April 21, 2011.
  6. ^ "Umwelt".
  7. ^ "xkcd • View topic – 1037: "Umwelt"". xkcd.com. April 1, 2012. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
  8. ^ "Click and Drag".
  9. ^ Munroe, Randall. "xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel (#442)". xkcd. Retrieved June 27, 2008.
  10. ^ a b "Malamanteau". xkcd. February 22, 1999. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
  11. ^ "Hyphen(#37)". xkcd.
  12. ^ "Collecting Double Takes(#236)". xkcd.
  13. ^ "Hobby (#53)". xkcd.
  14. ^ City: #116
  15. ^ Before Sunrise: #176
  16. ^ Your Mom: #366
  17. ^ 28-Hour Day: #320
  18. ^ Red Spiders: #8
  19. ^ The Race (Firefly): #577
  20. ^ a b "Hitler (#29)". xkcd. Retrieved March 18, 2011.
  21. ^ "Poisson (#12)". Xkcd.com. January 1, 2006. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
  22. ^ Munroe, Randall (March 6, 2006). "Classhole (#72)". xkcd. Retrieved October 3, 2008.
  23. ^ "Words that End in GRY (#169)". xkcd. Retrieved March 6, 2007.
  24. ^ "Join Myspace (#146)". xkcd. Retrieved March 6, 2007.
  25. ^ "Actuarial (#493)". xkcd. Retrieved July 31, 2008.
  26. ^ "Secretary: Part 1". Retrieved January 21, 2009.since comic 433 "journal 5" he has been in a relationship with "psychotic female"
  27. ^ Munroe, Randall (September 20, 2006). "Boombox (#159)". xkcd. Retrieved November 26, 2008.
  28. ^ Munroe, Randall (January 26, 2007). "Letting Go (#215)". xkcd. Retrieved November 26, 2008.
  29. ^ Munroe, Randall (May 7, 2007). "Jealousy (#420)". xkcd. Retrieved November 26, 2008.
  30. ^ Munroe, Randall (September 19, 2008). "The Staple Madness (#478)". xkcd. Retrieved November 26, 2008.
  31. ^ a b "Barrel – Part 5". xkcd. February 22, 1999. Retrieved December 21, 2011. Cite error: The named reference "comic31" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  32. ^ "Nihilism (#167)". xkcd. Retrieved October 4, 2007.
  33. ^ "Kayak (#209)". xkcd. Retrieved November 1, 2007.
  34. ^ "Hypotheticals (#248)". xkcd. Retrieved October 23, 2007.
  35. ^ "Dark Flow (#502)". xkcd. Retrieved 18 15, 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  36. ^ "Guest Week: SMBC(#826)". xkcd. Retrieved June 9, 2012.
  37. ^ a b c "Open Source (#225)". xkcd. Retrieved November 17, 2007.
  38. ^ a b "1337 Part 5 (#345)". xkcd. Retrieved November 17, 2007.
  39. ^ a b c "Blagofaire (#239)". xkcd. Retrieved November 17, 2007.
  40. ^ "Nash (#182)". xkcd. Retrieved January 2, 2009.
  41. ^ "Unscientific (#397)". xkcd. Retrieved January 2, 2009.
  42. ^ Munroe, Randall. "The Race: Part 3". xkcd. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  43. ^ "Ultimate Game (#393)". xkcd. Retrieved August 18, 2010.
  44. ^ "1337: Part 1". Retrieved September 5, 2008.
  45. ^ "Exploits of a Mom". Retrieved January 10, 2008. Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory. (tooltip)
  46. ^ "1337: Part 2". Retrieved May 17, 2010. Trivia: Elaine is actually her middle name. (tooltip)
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  48. ^ "The Race".
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