First xkcd book now available online

Alan Gardner September 17, 2009 1 minute 5 comments

Xkcd, a successful, quirky, nerd, geek, math webcomic is now available in book form beginning this week. The collection is entitled, “xkcd: volume 0,” and features the first 600 xkcd comics and includes “lot of doodles, notes, and puzzles in the margins.” It’s only available for purchase online and a portion of the profits go toward building a school in Laos through the charity Room to Read.

Xkcd is the brain-child of Randall Munroe who started the comic in 2005 while a contractor for NASA. Within the next two years, the strip’s popularity (and online merchandise) grew to the point where Randall was able to quit his job with NASA.

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Jesse Cline

thanks for the heads up, Alan. Ordered.

Sep 17,2009
Tony Piro

Also, for the first 24 hours of the sale a signed version was available for an extra charge. But alas, the time has already passed.

Sep 17,2009
Garey Mckee

I guess you DO have to be a rocket scientist to have a successful webcomic.

Sep 17,2009
Ben Gordon

I knew I should have stuck to stick figures! #$%&!! 😀

I for one would love to read an account a year out of how the self-publishing plan unfolded and what was learned.

Sep 19,2009
Garey Mckee

XKCD is one of those strips that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that a great strip is all about writing. A well done strip is a well written strip, even with stick figures.

Sep 20,2009

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