Strip Search: Piled Higher and Deeper
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by Jennifer M. Babcock
Piled Higher and Deeper is a webcomic drawn by a good friend of mine, Jorge Cham. He started drawing PhD Comics as a graduate student at Stanford University. For about a year, my alma mater UCLA ran his comic in their paper (I believe on Wednesdays) and it has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in three published book collections. On top of all that, Jorge gets to run around the country giving lectures about how to cope with being a grad student – using his comic as visual aid.
In a nutshell, PhD is a pretty big success. I don’t think it’s listed as a webcomic that is self-sufficient (meaning that the profits Jorge receives via merchandising and advertising can fully support him without a “day job”) but I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t.
