SMBC – The Map Room

SMBC on GPS

Published on 17 February 2023 by Jonathan Crowe

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has a take on what GPS does to our ability to navigate.

SMBC Takes the Mercator Projection into Its Own Hands

Published on 27 February 2020 by Jonathan Crowe

SMBC: Mercator — From “Mercator”, *SMBC*, 24 Feb 2020.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal’s take on the Mercator projection is … not what you’d expect. The punch line is similar to Christopher Rowe’s short story, “Another Word for Map Is Faith”: if you can’t make the map conform to the territory, make the territory conform to the map. Since we’re dealing with the Mercator projection, this requires some … escalation.

SMBC’s Alternatives to a Flat Earth

Published on 15 August 2019 by Jonathan Crowe

It’s not like xkcd has a monopoly on comics about maps. Last week, Zach Weinersmith’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal web comic posted a comic about alternative non-spherical Earth theories: everything from a hollow Earth to, well, stranger variations—including a slightly lumpy oblate spheroid Earth, which I frankly find hard to believe in.