People in my world can be disdainful of political and social problems and solutions. But we're never going to stop needing those.
I have the standard cartoonist setup, which is one of those Cintiq tablets, and a laptop. If I'm mostly writing code, I'm on the laptop, and if I'm mostly drawing, I'm on the Cintiq.
I'm just one of those people who can always tell the same story twice, forgetting that I've told it already.
It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.
The nice thing about being on the Internet is that you're not as recognisable as someone that's been on TV.
I think that putting merchandising into the hands of the artist themselves is one of the best things for the artist.
