XKCD creator in Wired; reappearance of blog-goggles in today's strip
XKCD is my favorite geeky webcomic, and today there's a great profile of the comic and its creator, Randall Munroe, in Wired. Coincidentally, I make an appearance (in my persona as a hot-air- balloon- borne be-goggled, caped blogger) in today's strip (a fact that approximately 200 Boing Boing readers have written in to mention -- a partial list of the first several appears below!).
Link to Wired profile of Randall Munroe, Link to today's strip, Link to photo of me in blog-goggs (Thanks, Zan, Brent, Macca, JK, Paul and Michael!)On that day, nearly a thousand xkcd fans from as far away as England and Canada converged on the park, bearing tape measures and Rubik's cubes. At the assigned minute, Munroe emerged and spoke.
"Maybe wanting something does make it real," he said as his fans cheered and fought duels with foam swords. The comic that spurred the gathering was enlarged and hung from a fence, and fans took turns contributing to a new last panel, where dreams can come true.
"I had someone write in and say that he'd been hanging out with this girl for a while, and then one day she just kissed him out of the blue," Munroe said. "Since then, they've been together. She told him later that she'd done it because she'd read a comic that suggested you take more chances. I think everyone needs to just relax a little bit. People do meet people."
See also:
Scary MBR-nuking program inspired by XKCD geeky webcomic
Ninjas attack Richard Stallman, reenacting xkcd comic
Cory Doctorow cosplayers at the XKCD picnic
Xkcd fans bring chess-sets on roller-coasters
Where LOLCats come from
Ironic Internet malapropism grid
Geeky comic about chess and roller-coasters
Nerd humor about Katamari Damacy
Sarcastic comic about computational linguistics (and emo kids)
Funny map of online communities in the style of a D&D map
Geeky comic strip uses Cory as the punchline
Bloggin' 'bout my generation
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That is so cool- you get to make a Princess Bride joke!
I know that tons of people find xkcd brilliant and I totally understand why this post belongs here. But from the perspective of someone who happens to think that xkcd is shit, reading the post conjures up an image of Mr. Doctorow sucking his own little Cory. Which is kind of hot, so no harm done :-)
@#2: Hmm, like this quote?
Coincidentally, this is from the very comic referenced in the last paragraph of the article.
(Of course, if #2 is deleted for cause and this comment moves up from #3, it'll be even more surreal!)
"But from the perspective of someone who happens to think that xkcd is shit, reading the post conjures up an image of Mr. Doctorow sucking his own little Cory."
Arg!
Begone, and never darken our comment threads again!
XKCD rocks. Actually, that whole 4-part series was some of the best I've seen.
-A
I read xkcd religiously. I cheered at the return of Cory, but my favorite line was how the blogosphere was located up "above the tag clouds."
Heh.