Another thrilling scoop from mainstream media!
Popular webcomic xkcd is being published for the first time in physical book form, that is, moving to ‘dead tree format’… an important enough event to warrant an article in The New York Times, even though MegaTokyo, Sinfest, Sluggy Freelance and Penny Arcade have all done it before… in fact, xkcd must be the last of the big webcomics to put out a book. Maybe that’s why it’s news.
April 21, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I always thought the format of XKCD was too irregular to be compiled into a book. He’ll make a strip ten pages high if it suits his requirements.
I think XKCD will always be the iconic webcomic. It’s the only webcomic of the ones you listed that deliberately uses a completely non-commercial drawing style, and unlike other stick-figure webcomics it doesn’t rely exclusively on scatalogical humour.
Also, it’s quite phenomenally a stuff white people like. Wear this shirt in public and you’ll belong to the high echelons of people who understood this joke without having to look it up. Wear a Banksy badge and quote Firefly and you’re set for life.
April 21, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Yet another post falls victim to my habit of closing links with /i instead of /a.
April 21, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Wear a Banksy badge and quote Firefly and you’re set for life
Maybe there could be a line of T-shirts reading, Which cylon are you? Me, I’m Leoben, I think.
April 22, 2009 at 3:30 am
According to the Guardian, Banksy isn’t “in” anymore.
April 22, 2009 at 9:06 am
QC isn’t in book form yet, and that’s pretty big.
April 24, 2009 at 9:41 am
I think the big story about xkcd’s book is that its profits are going to charity.
As for stick figure comics without poop jokes, the Order of the Stick is stick figure and also an interesting fantasy epic
April 24, 2009 at 9:57 am
That’s good of him… shame it’s not mentioned in the article.