Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1984 · age 42
Randall Patrick Munroe is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd. Munroe has worked full-time on the comic since late 2006.
Randall Munroe is read about 295 times a day, in 28 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?Media & music
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!["Wikipedian Protester", published on xkcd.com with all-caps title-text (tooltip): "Semi-protect the Constitution".[14] On Wikipedia, semi-protected pages may not be edited by new or unregistered users. "Citation needed" is a tag added by Wikipedia editors to unsourced statements in articles requesting citations to be added.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Webcomic_xkcd_-_Wikipedian_protester.png/330px-Webcomic_xkcd_-_Wikipedian_protester.png)
"Wikipedian Protester", published on xkcd.com with all-caps title-text (tooltip): "Semi-protect the Constitution".[14] On Wikipedia, semi-protected pages may not be edited by new or unregistered users. "Citation needed" is a tag added by Wikipedia editors to unsourced statements in articles requesting citations to be added.
Munroe explaining one of the scenarios from What If? 2 while promoting the book in Norwood, Ohio, in 2022
Munroe's 2011 chart on various doses of radioactivity in sieverts, ranging from negligible to lethalAbout this person
In addition to publishing a book of the webcomic's strips, titled xkcd: Volume 0, he has written four books: What If?, Thing Explainer, How To, and What If? 2.
Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1984 · age 42
