About the timeframe of the comic's updates and a good bit longer. He wrote in his blog post [0.6983]: > Time was a bigger project than I planned. All told, I d

About the timeframe of the comic's updates and a good bit longer. He wrote in his blog post [0.6983]: > Time was a bigger project than I planned. All told, I drew 3,099 panels. I animated a starfield, pored over maps and research papers, talked with biologists and botanists, and created a plausible future language for readers to try to decode. > I wrote the whole story before I drew the first frame, and had almost a thousand panels already drawn before I posted the first one. But as the story progressed, the later panels took longer to draw than I expected, and Time began—ironically—eating more and more of my time. Frames that went up every hour were sometimes taking more than an hour to make, and I spent the final months doing practically nothing but drawing. [0.6983] http://blog.xkcd.com/2013/07/29/1190-time/ http://blog.xkcd.com/2013/07/29/1190-time/