The pm post, now comic Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey , included the first link to xkcd. The next post was on Sunday, October 2, in which Randall indicated that he would begin posting comics on Monday, Wednesday and Friday the post, made just before midnight, was Monday's drawing.
Randall posted comics on LiveJournal until Monday, January 30, , when Randall announced that he would be posting his comics on xkcd. The original LiveJournal account was therefore no longer necessary and would be shut down. The next post, on Sunday, April 23, , advised that Randall was about to delete the original LiveJournal account, and credited "davean" for helping with the automated posting script.
For unknown reasons, all of the comics originally posted only on LiveJournal i. From Schrodinger the next 11 comics were posted both on xkcd and on LiveJournal , but one of the comics , Science , were released out of order, making the order wrong from Malaria up to Science.
The original order on LiveJournal can be found on this list: Category:Comics posted on livejournal. The last comic to be released on both sites had the same release day: Useless.
And the next comic was the first to be released only on xkcd: The Cure. When comics were archived at xkcd. As it is currently numbered, xkcd premieres with Barrel - Part 1 - the first part of a five-part story whose parts were distributed amongst the first thirty-one strips. Following the premiere strip, five of the next seven strips are simply one-panel sketches with no hidden meaning or comic purpose.
One is clearly marked as a sketch from Randall's 11th grade Spanish class which was originally the first sketch posted on the LiveJournal account. This comic clearly was a scanned pencil sketch with slightly-askew graph-paper grid visible.
But I think, now, it's about a day of work in which I don't do much else. That's it? I was figuring it'd take much longer! Well, that's a day of solid work -- I mean, most people don't actually work through a whole day. I certainly don't. So in practice, it's a few days, because there's a lot of email checking, or having to go run an errand. Makes sense. And, design-wise, I love how each article stands on its own -- a single product on a single page. Since that's the same structure you use for xkcd, I'm wondering: Why did you choose to repeat that format?
Especially because I was so delayed in actually getting the site up , I had a lot of time to think about how I wanted it to look. Did I want to have individual entries, or did I want to do more of a blog format, or did I want to have a bunch of questions answered as they came in?
So we settled on the current format, and it seems to work pretty well. One of the things I've learned with doing xkcd is that you sort of give people, "Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing. Do I really want another page like this?
I'm not a huge fan of some of the infinite scrolling things that are happening now. I think it's really annoying to want to read partway through, and then you navigate away, and can't get back.
Does What If, at this point, have a business model? When I first started xkcd, it was all stuff I drew during classes -- because I wasn't paying attention to the lecture.
And then when I started drawing them from home, I found that I'd have a lot of trouble coming up with ideas. And then I'd get a project and start working on that -- and I found that, instead of it taking up more of my time, I had more comic ideas per day and was drawing more of them. So they all reinforced each other. The format would definitely make sense as a book.
But for the moment, it's just been so much fun to write and answer. My experience of the Internet has been that if you make something really cool, the neatness speaks for itself. And that's much more important than trying to make something marketable -- trying to make something into a product. So I just found that if I'm steadily trying to make cool things and putting them up, some of them, in some way or another, have a business opportunity.
Is there a direct relationship between xkcd and What If? Do they inspire each other? Mostly, I just think it's helped me because it's given me all this cool stuff to read through. I'll sometimes be researching a question and then be like, "I don't think I can turn that into a thing. And it probably made me annoying!
I read this book once about this guy, A. Jacobs, who read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica and wrote about the experience. He said he had the problem where someone would be like, "Pass the salt," and he'd be like, "Oh, did you know that salt was originally used in medicine for this kind of thing, and then we learned it causes this? I had something similar. When I was doing the money chart, someone would say, "Oh, I can't afford to move into a new apartment," and I'd say, "Oh, I know, a lot of people are in that situation because the income has changed like this, whereas the rents in this state have shifted more than in other states, because blahblahblahblahblah -- all these economics.
It was like, "Okay, wait. Pull back. This is not interesting. When xkcd creator Randall Munroe first posted a new installment of his webcomic titled " Time " on March 25, it looked deceptively simple: a picture of two black and white stick figures, a man and a woman, sitting wordlessly on the ground.
There was no story, no punchline, no words. And they continued to change every half-hour for the next week—and every hour for months after that—slowly coalescing into a story as the two characters discovered disturbing changes in the landscape around them, and set out on an epic, time-lapsed journey to discover the truth about what was happening to their world. Readers set out on a similar journey, although their path led not to the wild unknown, but rather back to the same URL where the mystery continued to unfold hour by hour.
Who were these characters? Where were they? What did the story mean? It's immensely fun and I really appreciate y'all's support. Why can't I read the whole comic mouseover text in Firefox? They can be read with extensions like Long Titles , or by right-clicking on the images and going to 'properties', then clicking and dragging to read the whole thing.
This is a bug in Firefox, Mozilla Bug It has been outstanding for many years now. Note: It looks like it's been fixed in Firefox 3. Now, as an added tweak, to keep the tooltips from expiring while you're reading, you can use this. If it's a not-for-profit publication, you need no permission -- just print them with attribution to xkcd.
You can post xkcd in your blog whether ad-supported or not with no need to get my permission. How can I find the date a comic was posted?
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