38 Randall Munroe of XKCD at Borderlands Books San Francisco 2009 09 23 Part 3

Randall Munroe on a book tour with a surprise appearance at Borderlands. Summary: Someone thought they spotted a comic in the book that didnt have title test. All of the comics have title text for a while the Wikipedia article said almost all. Some of them are just an ellipsis though. The book has title text though some of them are two part comics with title text on only one. Someone inaudible at the back of the room asked how it felt to be one of the trendsetters with punch line title text. Actually he was following the lead of visionaries such as Dinosaur Comics A Softer World and Achewood. Penny Arcade did not. He started title text around comic 50 and went back and did the old ones in one go. Its a strategiccompetitive measure: if you notice the title text partway through the archive you may re-read. Also it makes you disappointed in comics that dont have it. Plus its fun. Assumption: people wont read the title text dont rely on it to explain the joke or make the joke rely on it. If the joke depends on it work it into the front somehow. What is his favorite? Well sentimental works too. He did not include the comic numbers. One of his favorites is He sees her every time he closes his eyes is that dance move called the Typewriter pre-Hammer? He also likes the shark tagging one at the end of the book: He read about a study that did something similar no balloons sharks were disappearing for 4 months sharks tagged in the Atlantic were heading down to South America and chilling 400ft down that was too deep for the cheap tags so they designed them to pop to the surface. He imagined what could go wrong. :D What are his favorite other webcomics? Perry Bible Fellowship best gag writer in webcomics. Rare favorite: Buttercup Festival: whimsical poorly scrawled Grim Reaper with idealismsadism experimentalstrange. Narrating comics is futile! Clutch of motherless ducklings he walks in the kitchen up the counter across the stove ... through the frying pan ... maybe that was wrong as hes eating. XKCD has influencesreferences to Buttercup Festival. Very hard to read handwriting he made a script to downloadupsample to read it on laptop. XKCD has JSON interface for just that reason. :D,

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