The banner at the top of every page on his web comic’s site — https://xkcd.com — now sports an image of ‘Cueball’ (one of the comics’ regular characters) saying (via a voice-balloon) ‘Black Lives Matter’.

As well there is a cartoon ‘button’ that says How to help. It links to the Join Campaign Zero home page.

A small act, but it is both visible and, I hope, useful. Monroe’s comic is in that odd place beween entirely niche and generically mainstream. His audience is, however (or at least, I suspect), mostly educated White English speakers. So he’s a semi-famous White guy being public about his BLM support to an audience of mostly other White folk.

Also, and entirely separately, I recommend the strip. Munroe operates in a similar space to Bill Watterson (of Calvin and Hobbes fame). Just as willing to ruminate on the meaning of life as to indulge in absurdist humour. And regularly willing to call-out noxious arseholes to devastating effect.

His take-down of pickup artists from back in March 2012 is still one of my favourites. His ‘How it works’ cartoon from February 2008 is a brilliant 2-panel demonstration of both the absurdity and the ubiquity of sexism.

And his comics consequent to his then-girlfriend’s, now wife’s breast cancer — especially ‘Two years’ and ’Seven years’ — are heart-breakingly good.