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.