Some of the xkcd comics aren’t just funny and interesting; they’re very moving. They deal with deep themes like time and death. Do you think of xkcd as art?
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You can’t be an expert on absolutely everything. How do you figure out the complicated things you explain so that you can explain them?
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Your first book, What If?, explored the realistic outcomes of some exotic hypothetical situations. What was the most appalling hypothetical
reality you wound up with?
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Your new book, Thing Explainer, explains things using only the thousand most common words in the English language. Did you come across anything you couldn’t explain using those words?
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What is your favorite geological period? Numerical prefix? Animal phylum?
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Have you always drawn stick figures? Can you draw non-stick-figure people too?
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What do you do when you’re not drawing xkcd?
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