‘xkcd’ is a webcomic created by Randall Munroe, a former contractor for NASA. Munroe describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." It is widely read (tallying between 60 and 70 million page views during October 2007) and has been recognized in such mainstream media as The Guardian and The New York Times.
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." And it is never typed in capitals, it is always lower case. 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, the comic occasionally features landscapes, intricate mathematical patterns such as fractals (for example, strip #17 "What If" shows an Apollonian gasket [http://xkcd.com/17/], or #543 "Sierpinski Valentine" [http://xkcd.com/543/] and #95 "Sierpinski Penis" for a Sierpinski triangle [http://xkcd.com/95/]), or imitations of the style of other cartoonists.
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." xkcd was also voted Best Comic Strip by readers in the 2007 Weblog Awards and 2008 Weblog Awards. It was also nominated for a 2009 NewNowNext Award in the category 'OMFG Internet Award'.
Many xkcd comics have been translated into Spanish by one reader. The comics available are the ones that, according to the translator, can be translated without losing their humor. A community of readers translated nearly half of the comics into Russian, and almost all of them into French. There is also a German translation.
Definately one of the best and intellectual comics I've read.
To read the comic or the strip above go to:
http://www.xkcd.com
http://xkcd.com/425/
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." And it is never typed in capitals, it is always lower case. 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, the comic occasionally features landscapes, intricate mathematical patterns such as fractals (for example, strip #17 "What If" shows an Apollonian gasket [http://xkcd.com/17/], or #543 "Sierpinski Valentine" [http://xkcd.com/543/] and #95 "Sierpinski Penis" for a Sierpinski triangle [http://xkcd.com/95/]), or imitations of the style of other cartoonists.
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." xkcd was also voted Best Comic Strip by readers in the 2007 Weblog Awards and 2008 Weblog Awards. It was also nominated for a 2009 NewNowNext Award in the category 'OMFG Internet Award'.
Many xkcd comics have been translated into Spanish by one reader. The comics available are the ones that, according to the translator, can be translated without losing their humor. A community of readers translated nearly half of the comics into Russian, and almost all of them into French. There is also a German translation.
Definately one of the best and intellectual comics I've read.
To read the comic or the strip above go to:
http://www.xkcd.com
http://xkcd.com/425/
Comic Lover is from United Kingdom.
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Picture #7
September 7th, 2009
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Picture #6
September 7th, 2009
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Picture #5
September 7th, 2009
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Picture #4
September 5th, 2009
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Picture #3
September 4th, 2009
