xkcd

Given the sheer number of amateur webcomics out there, it is easy for critics to dismiss it as a niche product that will never amount to anything (despite the fact that several professional cartoonists, including Phil Foglio and Colleen Doran, have started posting their comics online as the primary means of gaining readership). Despite the naysayers, a number of webcomics have achieved some level of fame and notoriety over the years, with the sardonic humor stick-figure comic xkcd leading the pack. But even with my own personal belief that webcomics will be the future medium that print comics will use to gain new readership, I was surprised to see Bill Amend of the newspaper comic FoxTrot posting a guest comic on xkcd while Randall Munroe deals with a serious family illness. Amend proves to be a good fit for a guest cartoonist and jumps in with both feet to show he’s every bit equal to the task of filling Munroe’s shoes for a day while remaining true to his own brand of quirky humor.