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XKCD Invited To New Yorker "Cartoon-Off"

Posted by kdawson on from the no-raptors dept.

UnknowingFool writes "Farley Katz, who draws for New Yorker magazine, ran into xkcd.com's Randall Munroe in a grocery store. He challenged Munroe to a cartoon-off — each cartoonist to produce drawings about the Internet as envisioned by the elderly, String Theory, 1999, and one's favorite animal eating one's favorite food. In the ensuing short interview, Munroe describes XKCD as 'a webcomic about stick figures who do math, play with staple guns, mess around on the Internet, and have lots of sex. It's about three-fourths autobiographical.'"

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  1. And the winner is... by Wonko+the+Sane · · Score: 5, Funny

    hyperbondage

  2. Re:Three-fourths Autobiographical? by causality · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thank you Capt. Obvious! It's not as funny if you have to call attention to the joke.

    I appreciate that. Being merely Sergeant Obvious was really getting old. Nothing but work, work, work.

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  3. O__O by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know what's scarier, that Katz's cow drawing has too many nipples - or that I noticed the discrepancy...

    1. Re:O__O by Ohio+Calvinist · · Score: 4, Funny

      All cows have too many nipples, based on my assumption that two nipples is the ideal number. :)

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  4. Re:Three-fourths Autobiographical? by ciaohound · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, I'm thinking he's done with the staple guns, now that all the XKCD fangirls are lining up to blow him.

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  5. Oh I do hope... by ahoehn · · Score: 4, Funny

    I sincerely hope the expression "Pulled a Palin" becomes part of the vernacular.

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    1. Re:Oh I do hope... by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

      Anyway, step back, I voted republican. We cool now?

      Wait a second. I'm confused. So are you saying that you are racist?!?




      (relax, it's a joke)

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  6. Three-fourths? by RyoShin · · Score: 4, Funny

    do math, play with staple guns, mess around on the Internet, and have lots of sex. It's about three-fourths autobiographical.

    I take it Monroe doesn't like staple guns.

  7. Re:Munroe Wins by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    (-1 " as useless as .jpegs to Hellen Keller.")

  8. One New Yorker comic I didn't get by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's the deal with the pig at the complaint department saying "I wish I were taller"?

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  9. Re:Three-fourths Autobiographical? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Captain Cliche here. Can I have my insult back?

  10. Re:One was good... by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah. That's the one. It was hilarious!

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  11. Re:Frosty Piss... by Sebilrazen · · Score: 4, Funny

    I maintain that CmdrTaco overpaid.

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  12. Re:Hmmm... by mollymoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hang on, did I just offer to make some guy on the internet horny for $5? I feel so... dirty.

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