Comments on: Was this a real XKCd comic? Or am I mis-remembering?

Question: Was this a real XKCd comic? Or am I mis-remembering?

Faintdreams — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:44:51 -0800

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.

By: Tell Me No Lies

Tell Me No Lies — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:03:03 -0800

For what it's worth I have a fairly good knowledge of XKCD and I don't remember anything like you're talking about.

By: Hermes32

Hermes32 — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:04:39 -0800

This one is laid out similarly to what you describe. Plus there are triangles at the end!

By: sparklemotion

sparklemotion — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:07:24 -0800

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.

By: ceribus peribus

ceribus peribus — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:08:16 -0800

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.

By: griphus

griphus — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:14:30 -0800

I am like 75% sure it was SMBC.

By: ceribus peribus

ceribus peribus — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:15:55 -0800

sparklemotion has it! It was SMBC's Life of Thought, available in poster form
here.

By: Bruce H.

Bruce H. — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:30:22 -0800

But see http://www.xkcd.com/1028/

By: Faintdreams

Faintdreams — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:51:29 -0800

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.