xkcd Book Tour Announced

Alexis Ohanian | Sep 08, 2009 | View Comments

Can’t make it on the tour? Grab the book here, get a bunch of friends together, and roleplay.

Dates of the xkcd book tour:
Sept 19th @ 18:30 – New York (R2R event) [waitlist online]
Sept 21st @ 18:00 (VIP), 19:00 for all – San Francisco (EFF event) [get tickets]
Sept 22nd @ 19:00 – Silicon Valley (R2R) [get tickets]

We’re looking at a mid-September release date for xkcd: volume 0. Now that it’s in the hands of the printers, we thought it was time to announce the xkcd book tour, a series of stops where you’ll not only get a chance to meet and chat with Randall, but also help a couple great non-profits.

As publisher, breadpig’s goal is to build a school in Laos with its profits from the book. But with xkcd’s help, we’re hosting some great fundraising events in New York (Sept 19) and Silicon Valley (Sept 22) where your ticket price helps get us even closer to that goal. Room To Read is the fantastic non-profit doing all the real work here and we’re thrilled to be working with them.

Tickets are now on sale for the above events, using a variant of the Dutch auction for maximum win. Check it out. And good luck!

Our defenders of digital freedom, EFF, is handling the event in San Francisco, but there’s a special geeky portion of this event that involves a reddit-powered interview. Got a question for Randall? Ask it here!

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About the Author

Before retiring as reddit co-founder, Alexis Ohanian founded Breadpig in late 2008 as an uncorporation for creating (and selling) geeky things with the purpose of making the world suck less. It's recently expanded to report on all the ways people worldwide are creating & hacking to improve their lives. He's also an angel investor and thinks hummus is awesome. Follow him on twitter, click here.
  • Morten Jens
    Exciting prizes also included in food festival in San Francisco. Please visit for any information's http://tinyurl.com/2wjepgc
  • Sam
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada?
  • woow supper
  • Mike
    Gee I'm in the bay area and I'd really like to go. Too bad it's OVER ALREADY! >:(
  • Name
    OMG I MISSED YOU RANDAL!!! I didn't know you were coming til now... and now it's all over!? gosh.
  • Name
    Ventura's not to far from the Bay Area. Come to Ventura!
  • Rapaiz
    Brazil?!?!?
  • lolman
    lolland, Denmark !
  • Megan
    I'd like to add another bump for Alaska (Anchorage area probably, but I'd go anywhere in the state)! C'mon, you know you want to!
  • thisperson
    I can't believe Seattle hasn't been mentioned yet!
  • ff4lover
    Ann Arbor or Detroit PLEASE?
    It would make my life. :)
  • Aline
    Germany! Berlin is such a nice city ;)
  • Bayindir
    The New York event is an irreplaceable memory, covering, filling, and radiating from my mind forever.
  • Aww... An xkcd event in my own city, and I can't go. Stupid New York... D8
  • Name
    Madison, WI?
  • Name
    Cambridge, UK would make a good addition to the list :p
  • Do I have to?
    Breadpig--the school will be well built, right? If you all need structural engineering guidance, please advise and I can route you to pro bono tech assistance if need be. Schools in emerging nations haven't performed well in natural disasters--a few precautions can add lots of integrity to the structure.
  • frostfang
    Come to Australia!
  • KROGASH THE DESTROYER
    FILTHY BETRAYER.
    NO BOSTON DATES?
    YOU WILL GO TO HELL
  • Kai
    from Silicon_Valley import XKCD

    print "Please come visit us in Alaska. We never get tours here."
  • Carl T
    Laos!! Laos!!
  • sammyo
    Somerville? Oh, sorry.
  • Belinda
    Congrats on the Book - BTW... and awesome contribution: feeding the hungry minds of the world.
  • Belinda
    Austin/San Antonio
    I live in San Antonio, but I'll drive.
  • Todd
    Hmm, I don't see St Louis on the tour schedule. It must be that it just hasn't been added yet, right? RIGHT?! Hell, even Chicago would be OK by me.
  • elad
    Israel?
    If you cannot bring the tour over, you can bring just the book :-)
  • mg
    Germany?
  • imRiley
    uh Utah?

    nah thought not. ..
  • ryanalbright
    I vote Utah as well, all my friends from high school love XKCD, I got my girlfriend and her family into it, and when I put them on my binders everyone in class passes them around and they love them! Come to Salt Lake City! :D
  • NN
    Baltimore/DC!
  • sabriel1206
    chicago!!! :D
  • Toby
    Chicago +1
  • Jason
    Hell yeah Chicago.
  • Evonne
    +6 Chicago.
  • Namaps
    *Sigh*, I wish I still lived in the Bay...
  • Madeline
    Yeah, another Jew here in New York. Come back another time and I'd definitely come!
  • Mike
    Can you add a NYC date that isn't during a Jewish holiday? We have a lot of Jews here.
  • Torri
    Baltimore/DC
  • Steve
    DC, please!
  • Kadevi
    It'd be nice if you could make a stop during your second tour somewhere in southern California. Say, LA or San Diego? :)
  • BrokenRhino
    Ann Arbor or Detroit Area? Ann Arbor is probably the most fitting.
  • London (UK)?
  • What about Boston?
  • altano
    Yeah really, no Boston? Randall wouldn't even have to pay for airfare!
  • Name
    How about Atlanta?
  • polarbear
    Totally Atlanta
  • Another +1 for Austin.
  • redct
    +1, Austin definitely.
  • Name
    Austin? :(
  • I'm getting the feeling we'll need to do a second tour... ;)
  • Seth Thomas Rasmussen
    Yeah, you need to come back to NYC when I'm not out of town. :D
  • Name
    Canada?
  • Big country :) What city gets your vote?
  • Eric
    The Waterloo area! Right near RIM and the University of Waterloo.
  • Name
    Calgary, Canada!

    Oh please! *crosses all fingers and toes*

    If anyone needs a bit of Randall, it's us!
  • Name
    How about Montréal?
  • Marie-Élisabeth
    Yes, Montréal!
  • Philippe
    Montréal ! Montréal !
  • Name
    Yay Montréal!! I'm in Sherbrooke actually, but I could very well go to Montréal for this occasion.
  • peterarmstrong
    Vancouver.
  • Now you're talking. BC would be fun. We may have to put this to a vote...
  • peterarmstrong
    I organize the local Ruby meetup, and I could help with this event if you needed anything and I was in town. (We don't just do Ruby topics; Eric Ries spoke at the meetup to about 90 people a few months back...) However, we're just sorting out a new space, since the place we had been hosting meetups (WorkSpace) shut down last month. There's a pretty active tech community here. Also, October 16 is "BookCamp", which is a 1-day BarCamp style event. So doing something near that (or at it?) would presumably work too...
  • Ryan
    I vote Vancouver too! I just ordered the book yesterday - woot!
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