Those graphs he converted into xkcd style are bad examples. Almost all the xkcd graphs I remember reading are illustrations for simple concepts. Well, let me pu

Those graphs he converted into xkcd style are bad examples. Almost all the xkcd graphs I remember reading are illustrations for simple concepts. Well, let me put it this way. The graph is usually compact, small and a few simple annotation/caption attached to the graph. That's exactly why the xkcd example in the article works well. Try to scale this up to a large graph like the one author did. The curly lines just hurt my eyes.