xkcd Author Gets Asteroid Named After Him

Considering the background of Randall Munroe, the creator of the highly successful xkcd web comic, perhaps this shouldn’t come as a surprise. What we have is the creator, who used to work for NASA as a robotics engineer, receiving the…

XKCD Wins April Fool’s Day With Amazing Changing Comic Gag

Everybody loves a good April Fool’s Day gag. Okay, not everybody. Most people love a good April Fool’s Day gag, and these days it seems like April Fool’s Day and the internet are like peanut butter and chocolate: they weren’t…

xkcd Protests SOPA With Personal Message

Popular stick-figure humor webcomic xkcd has joined the blackout to protest SOPA with a comic/personal message. The web site today is featuring a black bar with the words “[don’t censor the web].” Randall Munroe, the site’s creator, says, “I make…

Do Google Plus Comics Nail The Facebook Angle?

There were two funny comics out about Google +, the next step in Google’s attempt at taking over the Internet going social, both of which play up the “Google + is just like Facebook” approach. While we’re still waiting for…