Munroe has said, 'I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights'. The webcomic quickly became very popular, garnering up to 70 million hits a month by October 2007. He registered the domain name, but left it idle until he started posting his drawings, perhaps in September 2005. Munroe had originally used xkcd as an instant messaging screenname because he wanted a name without a meaning so he would not eventually grow tired of it. The comic's tagline describes it as 'A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language'. Munroe's blog, entitled xkcd, is primarily a stick figure comic. ' Citation needed' is a tag added by Wikipedia editors to unsourced statements in articles requesting citations to be added. On Wikipedia, semi-protected pages may not be edited by new or unregistered users. 'Wikipedian Protester', published on with title-text ( tooltip): 'SEMI-PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION'. In late 2006, he left NASA and moved to Boston to focus on webcomics full time. Munroe worked as a contract programmer and roboticist for NASA at the Langley Research Center, before and after his graduation with a physics degree. After graduating from the Chesterfield County Mathematics and Science High School at Clover Hill in Midlothian, Virginia, he graduated from Christopher Newport University in 2006 with a degree in physics. He was a fan of comic strips in newspapers from an early age, starting off with Calvin and Hobbes. He has two younger siblings, including a brother named Doug, and was raised as a Quaker. Munroe was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and his father has worked as an engineer and marketer. In addition to publishing a book of the webcomic's strips, he has written four books: What If?, Thing Explainer, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, and What If? 2. Munroe has worked full-time on the comic since late 2006. Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984) is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems.

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