Randall Munroe began his career in physics working with robots at NASAs Langley Research Center. He is famous, however, for engineering a creation of different kind: the iconic web comic that is xkcd.

Is Randall Munroe single?

In September 2011, he announced that they had married. In November 2012, he published a comic entitled Two Years, and in December 2017, Munroe followed this with a comic entitled Seven Years. He revisited the subject in November 2020 in a comic entitled Ten Years.

Why is Xkcd named?

According to Munroe, the comics name has no particular significance and is simply a four-letter word without a phonetic pronunciation, something he describes as a treasured and carefully guarded point in the space of four-character strings. In January 2006, the comic was split off into its own website, created in