When one wants a cartoon that can make you think, laugh and then tease you with more humor when you hover over the comic and get “punch line” of sorts, then you read XKCD, the cartoon for geeks. In it you may be given a math problem that if solved answers how to deal with women. Or a view for women on what men really want. Or a diagram showing you exactly how small someone imagination is compared to the universe. And many more things besides.
Katz… well he’s the premier cartoonist from The New Yorker. A magazine which has made snarky comics a passion. The cartoonist who has shamed Presidents, celebrities and then had circulation double.
Combine the two and… Let’s be glad that Katz “ran into Munroe in the grocery store.”
Last night I was out shopping for groceries at my local grocery store when I ran into none other than Randall Munroe, creator of the webcomic XKCD (and, it might be noted, the guy in the grocery store who pushes his cart extra slow and then stops right in the middle of the aisle, so you can’t get over to the candy section!). Before I could muster the courage to challenge him to a cartoon-off, as I knew I must, he had already removed his glove—a long silky stocking of a thing—and lofted it against my cheek, mouthing the words “cartoon off”. The game was on.
The Rules—each contender is to draw:
- The Internet, as envisioned by the elderly.
- String Theory.
- 1999.
- Your favorite animal eating your favorite food.
There are many times in which I encourage slacking off, and not doing work. But I suggest that now for a few minutes, you go and view and then read the Q&A. Some trully brilliant, hilarious stuff.
Tags: Comic, Humor, Interesting, interview
