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I had no idea Randall Munroe of XKCD has had a column at NYT since 2019. His illustration style is so distinct.

shagie 5y ago
For a while, he was dabbling with long form (rather than pure comic) writing. https://what-if.xkcd.com https://what-if.xkcd.com Its more than a dabble - there are 157 of them, but that's the type of thing that a paper looking for original content and writing would like. The last what-if was published in May of 2018.
- Mediterraneo10 5y ago
  There have been occasional grumblings for a couple of years now that the humour of the XKCD webcomic has declined, Munroe just doesn’t seem to have his mind on the job now that he is doing these other projects. However, the what-if and pop-science explanatory stuff is generally of very good quality, so on balance one can’t really complain.
  - vardump 5y ago
    Well, he certainly has already contributed his fair share, and most of it totally free, not even banner ads.
- ctdonath 5y ago
  Those were compiled into a physical book. The online content stopped shortly after; pity.
  - shagie 5y ago
    The book was published in '14 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If%3F_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If%3F_(book) ) . The what if long form continued on for another four years.
gmuslera 5y ago
After watching the first illustration went up and confirmed that was Randall Munroe the one that wrote it. I've been missing for too long his what-if posts. Still, would be nice to have his typical mouseover messages.
- smegger001 5y ago
  I was wondering what happened to those I figured he was just writting book of them now so he wasn't going to post them for free.
  - yesenadam 5y ago
    My favourite part of the book xkcd: volume 0 is the beginning of the introduction: Hi! This book is a collection of strips from xkcd, a free webcomic. I want to get that out of the way so you don't feel betrayed later when you realize you paid for a book of things that you could get for free on the Internet. I like books a lot, so I've put this one together from my webcomic (and added some annotations and other tidbits), but that's really no excuse for poor economic sense on your part. Still, if you've purchased this book, I suppose it's too late for regrets. Let's gloss over this incident and move on to the story of xkcd.
ce4 5y ago
Same here. I was intrigued by both writing style and then the way the diagram was drawn. Scrolled up and sure enough i found it's from Randall Munroe, as expected :)

For a while, he was dabbling with long form (rather than pure comic) writing. https://what-if.xkcd.com https://what-if.xkcd.com Its more than a dabble - there are 157 of them, but that's the type of thing that a paper looking for original content and writing would like. The last what-if was published in May of 2018.

Mediterraneo10 5y ago
There have been occasional grumblings for a couple of years now that the humour of the XKCD webcomic has declined, Munroe just doesn’t seem to have his mind on the job now that he is doing these other projects. However, the what-if and pop-science explanatory stuff is generally of very good quality, so on balance one can’t really complain.
- vardump 5y ago
  Well, he certainly has already contributed his fair share, and most of it totally free, not even banner ads.
ctdonath 5y ago
Those were compiled into a physical book. The online content stopped shortly after; pity.
- shagie 5y ago
  The book was published in '14 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If%3F_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If%3F_(book) ) . The what if long form continued on for another four years.

gmuslera 5y ago

After watching the first illustration went up and confirmed that was Randall Munroe the one that wrote it. I've been missing for too long his what-if posts. Still, would be nice to have his typical mouseover messages.

smegger001 5y ago
I was wondering what happened to those I figured he was just writting book of them now so he wasn't going to post them for free.
- yesenadam 5y ago
  My favourite part of the book xkcd: volume 0 is the beginning of the introduction: Hi! This book is a collection of strips from xkcd, a free webcomic. I want to get that out of the way so you don't feel betrayed later when you realize you paid for a book of things that you could get for free on the Internet. I like books a lot, so I've put this one together from my webcomic (and added some annotations and other tidbits), but that's really no excuse for poor economic sense on your part. Still, if you've purchased this book, I suppose it's too late for regrets. Let's gloss over this incident and move on to the story of xkcd.

ce4 5y ago

Same here. I was intrigued by both writing style and then the way the diagram was drawn. Scrolled up and sure enough i found it's from Randall Munroe, as expected :)