There’s heart (and money) in stick figures

It’s not the stick figures, it’s the heart and love that go into the stories around them. This is a story of how a NASA roboticist grew a stick figure web comic into a much-beloved online geek epic.

Since its 2005 launch, xkcd has grown from doodles in the margins of a graphing notebook to T-shirts, radio talks and lectures on humor at MIT, where students batted inflatable raptors around the auditorium. The website drew between 60 million and 70 million pageviews in October…but if xkcd is currently making headlines, it’s because Munroe’s message to “get out and live!”


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