Using Stick Figures in a Graphic Novel?

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I feel like anyone who does physics should have to take a class in perspective drawing just for the part on where you're drawing on the board. It's really helpful to be able to take a picture and just figure out like, where do these lines roughly go? I don't know if I have a satisfying answer to that. Um, I guess a lot of trial and error. But nevertheless, since you're not just using clip art,. you do whatever the labels are, whatever the legitimacy is, you need to make artistic decisions, right? Like using stick figures. So who cares about that? Exactly.

What’s the fastest way to get a human being around a racetrack, if we ignore all the rules of racing? How many pages would you have to read to absorb all of the government laws that apply to you? It’s hard to imagine a better person to tackle these kinds of slightly-askew questions than Randall Munroe, creator of the xkcd webcomic. He collected some answers in his book What If?, and has released a sequel, What If? 2. We dive into how one goes about choosing the right questions and answering them, and how to make it funny along the way.

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Randall Munroe received a degree in physics from Christopher Newport University, before working for a while at NASA’s Langley Research Center. He is now the creator of xkcd and the author of several books. What If? and What If? 2 are based on a regular feature in which he tackles questions asked by readers.

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