xkcd creator Randall Munroe gets asteroid named after him

[Dan Dassow]

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/10/xkcd-creator-randall-munroe-gets-asteroid-named-after-him/

by Kevin Melrose | October 3, 2013 @ 1:00 PM

Randall Munroe, creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, has joined a very exclusive group: comics writers and artists who’ve had asteroids named in their honor. ...

Munroe is now one of a relative handful of comics creators who have asteroids named after them: J. Michael Straczynski (although it was in recognition of works in other media, like Babylon 5), Carl Barks and, just this summer, The Incal writer Alejandro Jodorowsky.