LiveJournal

Before Randall started using the xkcd.com website, he posted his comics on LiveJournal using the "xkcd_drawings" account. The images on the page are now broken, but there are archived versions with most of images:

• First 16 comics
• From 17 to 27
• Last 20 comics

The first xkcd comic was 7: Girl sleeping (Sketch -- 11th grade Spanish class), released on September 30, 2005, and the fiftly-second and last comic released on LiveJournal was 55: Useless, posted on January 27, 2006. The last post on the LiveJournal account was posted on April 23, 2006. It warned that the old account has been closed and recommended friending the new account, called "xkcd_rss". Despite saying the account would be "deleted soon", the account still exists.

Comics posted on LiveJournal before xkcd.com

First day on LiveJournal

The first thirteen comics were posted on LiveJournal within 12 minutes on September 30, 2005, on the first day of the xkcd LiveJournal account. The first comic posted on that day was 7: Girl sleeping (Sketch -- 11th grade Spanish class) and the last one was 11: Barrel - Part 2. Starting from the next post, he began following the normal Monday, Wednesday, Friday release date routine, although he often posted the comic a little before midnight or even forgetting to post the comic in time, making them come out a day earlier.

Winter break

The last comic to be released before xkcd.com was in use was 39: Bowl. It came out as the 41st on LiveJournal on December 5, 2005, but the following day Randall made a LiveJournal post titled Announcement:

What with winter break starting and the like, I'll probably be going off my regular update schedule. I'll try to post something here and there, and might end up doing more drawings than I expect, but won't stick to the MWF schedule.
Thanks for the support! This has been and will continue to be a lot of fun.

This may be due to his exams coming up, or the preparation for the release of xkcd.com the following year. The next LiveJournal comic, 45: Schrodinger, was released almost a month later, on January 4, 2006.

Comics posted both on LiveJournal and on xkcd.com

First day on xkcd.com

The xkcd web site opened up on the 1st of January 2006 where comics with numbers from 1-44 was released. All 41 comics posted before that on LiveJournal was added to xkcd on this day, but in a different order. There were for instance five older comics posted after the previous 39: Bowl, before the next 45: Schrodinger. These now have the numbers between those two comics. It is the comics from 40: Light to 44: Love.

Comics posted before xkcd

Special releases on xkcd only

There were also two new comics added on this first day (5: Blown apart and 12: Poisson) and one added a few months later (36: Scientists) that had not previously been posted on LiveJournal. The first two were released for the first time to the public on this day, and 36: Scientists was initially published as a duplicate of comic 10: Pi Equals. Over three months after the original posting, Randall noticed the error and corrected it sometime between April 23, 2006 and July 5, 2006, when the updated version appeared in the Web Archive. See more about this in the trivia section of that comic.

Comics posted after xkcd

The next 11 post on LiveJournal from 45: Schrodinger to the last 55: Useless were posted (almost) on the same days both on LiveJournal and on xkcd. After a few mishaps over this first "shared release" month, he went back to an, almost, strict MWF (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) release day schedule.

For some reason 54: Science was released a week earlier on LiveJournal than on xkcd, switching release date with 51: Malaria. The three comics coming after this on LiveJournal (that is from 51: Malaria to the second last 53: Hobby) had their release dates shifted one comic-release-day later, compared to the xkcd release date. 54: Science was finally released, just before the final LiveJournal comic was released, which meant that the last comic on LiveJournal was released the same day on both sites.

When the next comic, 56: The Cure, came out only on xkcd on January 30th, 2006, the following message was posted at the same day on LiveJournal:

I'm closing down this journal. Friend the new feed.

Original title and caption, and trivia sections

Only 11 of the original LiveJournal titles was reused when posted on xkcd. Even among the last 11 comics posted on both sites only six used the same title. Several of the comics did not even get a title, but only the date as in Fridays comic.

Most of the comics posted on LiveJournal had an original Randall caption beneath the picture, and many had comments by LiveJournal users. Randall did not use a title text before the xkcd site. All the comics reposted from LiveJournal to xkcd had a title text, but this almost never the same as the note beneath the picture from LiveJournal, although the gist of it was often along the same lines.

In the trivia section for all the comics posted on LiveJournal, the original title and note if any will be listed, as well as the original LiveJournal release number, and the previous and the next comic released there. It it thus possible to go through them in the original release order through the trivia section. Also, in the Category:Posted on LiveJournal the comics are also sorted in this correct LiveJournal release order.