Randall Munroe
Né(e): October 17, 1984 – Easton, Pennsylvania, United States
Randall Munroe is an American cartoonist, author, and former NASA roboticist best known for creating xkcd, the webcomic that blends humor with science, technology, and mathematics. He also wrote the bestselling books What If? and Thing Explainer, and has become a widely read popularizer of scientific thinking for millions online.
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Randall Munroe was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. He studied physics at Christopher Newport University and then joined NASA’s Langley Research Center, where he worked on robots. The decisive turn in his career came while he was still drawing for himself and friends: in 2005 he began posting scanned stick-figure doodles online as xkcd, a project that fused dry humor with the habits of a physicist. By 2006 he had left NASA to make comics full time, turning a side experiment into one of the internet’s most recognizable author-led publications.
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"Randall Munroe’s webcomic xkcd casts an optimistic eye on the geek lifestyle"
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"Randall Munroe is the Cambridge-based former NASA roboticist turned celebrity cartoonist behind the uber-popular website xkcd"
— The Boston Globe ((
"It’s difficult enough to find the humor in science, math and technology, but Randall Munroe manages to do so using stick figures"
— The Wall Street Journal ((
"Randall Munroe, creator of the popular webcomic xkcd and author of a new book, applies true research to wild ideas"
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"Randall Munroe has parlayed his physics degree and experience working at NASA on computers and robots into fame as a cartoonist, blogger, and author"
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