Xkcd: Volume 0

Randall Munroe

Aug 2010 · Xkcd

About this eBook

Randall Munroe describesxkcd as a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. While it's practically required reading in the geek community,xkcd fans are as varied as the comic's subject matter. This book creates laughs from science jokes on one page to relationship humor on another.

xkcd: volume 0 is the first book from the immensely popular webcomic with a passionate readership (just Google "xkcd meetup").

The artist selected personal and fan favorites from his first 600 comics. It was lovingly assembled from high-resolution original scans of the comics (the mouseover text is discreetly included), and features a lot of doodles, notes, and puzzles in the margins.

The book is published by Breadpig, which donates all of the publisher profits from this book to Room to Read for promoting literacy in the developing world.

Ratings and reviews

I have a great sense of humor and I'm pretty smart, but I'll be darned if I understood even half of what he was talking about. (I do have bad eyesight though.) I can't imagine what attracted me to this book especially since I always read a sample first. Maybe they didn't give me much to go on? I say, if you really want to read it, rent it for free from the library. I gave it two stars because I think I giggled once or twice and I did purchase it, after all.

This book was great. Even if you don't have a science or math background, it's still funny.

this book was funny to read!

About the author

Randall Munroe was born in Easton, Pennsylvania on October 17, 1984. He received a degree in physics from Christopher Newport University. He got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006, he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full-time. He is the author of the popular webcomic xkcd, the science question-and-answer blog What If, and the New York Times bestseller What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.