xkcd: volume 0

Randall Munroe describes xkcd 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.

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• How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
• Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
• The Book of General Ignorance
• An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, International Edition
• Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
• The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew
• We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe