The Web's Best Comic for Creatives: An Illustrated Intro to XKCD (40+ Comics Inside!)
Ever gotten frustrated fumbling with a bra clasp?
Ever noticed your standards dropping when things don't go well?
Stop what you’re doing for 5 minutes—you need to check out XKCD. It’s the web’s best comic for creatives, brainiacs, and other people with big questions—and in this post, we’ll preview more than 40 of the clever, often-hilarious entries that author Randall Munroe has posted each week.
Click an image to see the original comic—with mouseover text if you view them on XKCD.com.
Everyday Thinking with
Graphs and Data
Honorable Mentions
Nerdy Pop Culture References
Honorable Mentions
If Dirty Harry gunned down Rain Man
If Poe were haunted by Daft Punk
If Stephanie Meyer were actually a master troll
Whether Ke$ha should keep brushing her teeth with a bottle of Jack
If Poe were haunted by Daft Punk
If Stephanie Meyer were actually a master troll
Whether Ke$ha should keep brushing her teeth with a bottle of Jack
Comics That Made Us Lose Our S#!t
Honorable Mentions
How to become the most-hated pop band in the world
If Google Maps gave directions in a horror movie
How to counter-attack neighbors who have loud sex
If Google Maps gave directions in a horror movie
How to counter-attack neighbors who have loud sex
Loops and Mind-Benders
Honorable Mentions
If highway designers could play pranks
A self-descriptive comic strip
An alternate map of the United States
A self-descriptive comic strip
An alternate map of the United States
Real Life, Real Talk
Honorable Mentions
A caricature of liberal arts students
What to tell anyone who’s acting high and mighty
The signs more people should hold at rallies
How much water you should drink in a day
What to tell anyone who’s acting high and mighty
The signs more people should hold at rallies
How much water you should drink in a day
How We Felt Putting Together This Post
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Anon, I find your commentary marginalizing the experience of manipulating the clasp of a modern bra to be discriminatory towards the people having to deal with them for the first time. While you have not hurt me physically, forced me to read your statements, or interacted with me in any meaningful way at all, I am uncomfortable and consider my feelings hurt. A well worded apology would go a long way at this point.
Ummm. As a professional woman, I didn’t enjoy opening my morning workday email to a picture of a bra. Implied humor or not, It frankly made me uncomfortable. I get the humor, but of all the good and interesting blog posts here, this was an inappropriate one to email to all subscribers. Telezinski: gender sensitivity is a thing, and the appropriate response would be a well intentioned apology.
Huh? I don’t see the poor taste or the sexist bit. The Rubik’s Cube bra strap clasp? If you guys get the previous comment, great. But if it was me, I wouldn’t have any idea how to address it. Good luck!
While generally I’m a fan of XKCD and your notebooks. I found this particular opening to your newsletter to be in poor taste and a bit sexist.
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