Was this a real XKCd comic? Or am I mis-remembering?
September 16, 2012 4:44 PM Subscribe
Memory Fail: Was this a XKCD comic?
It was a long (instead of the usual landscape style) comic of I think nine panels, set into two columns.
The comic featured a stick figure entering some kind of education establishment, but the speech bubbles had no text, just symbols.
The stick figure graduates/ leaves the institution with thier 'speech' /though bubble showing the same symbols as the people teaching them, before-hand the first stick figure had scribbles whereas the 'learned' one had triangles I think?
I can't find it online (if indeed it is even an xkcd) and it is driving me crazy.
Thanks in advance.
It was a long (instead of the usual landscape style) comic of I think nine panels, set into two columns.
The comic featured a stick figure entering some kind of education establishment, but the speech bubbles had no text, just symbols.
The stick figure graduates/ leaves the institution with thier 'speech' /though bubble showing the same symbols as the people teaching them, before-hand the first stick figure had scribbles whereas the 'learned' one had triangles I think?
I can't find it online (if indeed it is even an xkcd) and it is driving me crazy.
Thanks in advance.
This one is laid out similarly to what you describe. Plus there are triangles at the end!
posted by Hermes32 at 5:04 PM on September 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Hermes32 at 5:04 PM on September 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
If it wasn't XKCD, could it have been Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal?
I seem to remember the comic as well, but in my mind, it looks like more of a smbc style than an xkcd style.
posted by sparklemotion at 5:07 PM on September 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
I seem to remember the comic as well, but in my mind, it looks like more of a smbc style than an xkcd style.
posted by sparklemotion at 5:07 PM on September 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
I can remember the comic, but I don't think it was XKCD. Maybe phdcomic? But I don't see it in the archives there either. I remember someone buying a large poster size version of it.
It's difficult to get the right search terms for this one; it's wonderfully non verbal.
posted by ceribus peribus at 5:08 PM on September 16, 2012
It's difficult to get the right search terms for this one; it's wonderfully non verbal.
posted by ceribus peribus at 5:08 PM on September 16, 2012
Best answer: sparklemotion has it! It was SMBC's Life of Thought, available in poster form
here.
posted by ceribus peribus at 5:15 PM on September 16, 2012 [8 favorites]
here.
posted by ceribus peribus at 5:15 PM on September 16, 2012 [8 favorites]
Response by poster: Thanks everyone, I was indeed confused and the comic I was thinking of was the 'Life of Thought' in SMBC as linked to by ceribus peribus.
I am so thankful and relieved! My brain was fixated on finding out what that was.
Thanks everyone.
posted by Faintdreams at 12:51 AM on September 17, 2012
I am so thankful and relieved! My brain was fixated on finding out what that was.
Thanks everyone.
posted by Faintdreams at 12:51 AM on September 17, 2012
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