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  • A list of comics pertaining to New Year.
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Explanation[edit]

  • The first two listed New Year comics were not directly referring to New Year, but both were related to a wild party and both were released on New Years eve two years in a row (2007 and 2008).
  • The first directly relating to the changing of the year is the two comics released over the New Year from 2011 to 2012.
    • December 30th it was 997: Wait Wait and on January 2nd 998: 2012
    • Since then there was at least one New Year related comic every year up until the New Year from 2021-2022.
      • And after that years lapse, the New Years comic has returned the next two years so far.
  • Next years New Year comic (2012-2013) was the first that directly related to New Year: 1154: Resolution, where the tradition of New Year's resolutions is the joke.
  • With the 1302: Year in Review, that is not directly related to New Years eve, but still to the end of the year, there where also two in 2013-2014, with the other being 1311: 2014.
  • Resolutions was also part of the joke in 1467: Email in 2014-2015.
  • Also in the New Year from 2015 to 2016 where there again two comics for one New Year.
    • Once again one of them was called the new year: 1624: 2016, making it the third even year with such a new year title.
    • In 2017 the first comic named like this with an uneven number, 1779: 2017, where released, and in 2018 the trend continued like this for the third year in a row with 1935: 2018.
      • But the trend stopped for at lest five years, thus skipping not only two uneven but also two even years, 2020 and 2022.
      • In 2024 the trend returned after 5 years, with 2875: 2024, see the trivia for that comic.
  • There were nothing related to New Year between 31st December 2008 and December 30th 2011.
    • So the two New Years ending 2009 and 2010 had no comic related to their New Year.
    • There were also nothing prior to the one on 31st December 2007, thus for the New Years ending 2005 and 2006.
    • Next time this happened was the New Year from 2021 to 2022.
      • This was so special that a Trivia was made on the comic after New Year.

Comics around and about New Year[edit]

  • Here is a list of the comics coming out as the one before or after New Year.
    • The list counts the real New Years comics, but also list those comics hitting those days without having any relation to New Year (i.e. comics from 29th of December to 3rd of January).
    • And it mentions comics that relates to New Year without being released close to New Year.
      • If there is not number it is not a New Year comic.
      • So far only one New Year comic has been released on the 29th and none on the 3rd. But sometimes those days will be the last release before or first release after New Year.
      • A few obvious New Year comics have been released outside the given window. Those will be counted and a note made. But other than those comics, only the last and first comic in each of the years around New Year, will be given.
    • New Year from 2005 to 2006:
      • From December 5th 2005 to January 4th 2006 Randall were taking a break while starting up xkcd so there were no releases right before New Year. This was the first after New Year:
      • January 4th: 45: Schrodinger
    • New Year from 2006 to 2007:
    • New Year from 2007 to 2008:
    • New Year from 2008 to 2009:
    • New Year from 2009 to 2010:
    • New Year from 2010 to 2011:
    • New Year from 2011 to 2012:
      • Both where New Year comics (1st time this happened)!
      • 3rd New Year comic released on December 30th: 997: Wait Wait
      • 4th New Year comic released on January 2nd: 998: 2012. (1st time one appeared in January!)
    • New Year from 2012 to 2013:
    • New Year from 2013 to 2014:
    • New Year from 2014 to 2015:
    • New Year from 2015 to 2016:
    • New Year from 2016 to 2017:
      • Only one of the two closest to New Year was a New Year comic, but then one about resolutions came out a week later.
      • 11th New Year comic released on December 30th: 1779: 2017
      • January 2nd: 1780: Appliance Repair
      • 12th New Year comic released on January 9th: 1783: Emails (Late release!)
    • New Year from 2017 to 2018:
      • Both where New Year comics (3rd time this happened).
      • 13th New Year comic released on December 29th: 1935: 2018
      • 14th New Year comic released on January 1st: 1936: Desert Golfing
    • New Year from 2018 to 2019:
    • New Year from 2019 to 2020:
      • Both where New Year comics (4th time this happened).
      • 16th New Year comic released on December 30th: 2248: New Year's Eve
      • 17th New Year comic released on January 1st: 2249: I Love the 20s
      • The comic 2253: Star Wars Voyager 1 from January 10th references both fireworks and Auld Lang Syne, and is thus related to New Year, although not technically a New Year comic.
    • New Year from 2020 to 2021:
      • 18th New Year comic released on December 30th: 2405: Flash Gatsby
      • January 1st: 2406: Viral Vector Immunity
        • First time a release on New Years Day was not a New Year comic since January 1st 2010 (so 11 years).
        • That also happened with the January 1st 2007 release, but the first New Year comic did not come out until December 31st 2007.
    • New Year from 2021 to 2022:
      • December 31st: 2562: Formatting Meeting
        • First time a release on New Years Eve was not a New Year comic.
      • January 3rd: 2563: Throat and Nasal Passages
        • Last time neither of the comics around the New Year was a New Year comic was the New Year from 2010 to 2011.
        • So after 10 years in a row with at least one such comic, Randall did nothing to celebrate that it became 2022.
        • This is also only the third time out of 15 without such a comic since the first came out 14 years before new year 2022.
      • See this Trivia on comic 2563: Throat and Nasal Passages about no new year comic.
    • New Year from 2022 to 2023:
    • New Year from 2023 to 2024:
      • 20th New Year comic was released already on November 15th: 2855: Empiricism
        • The subject was two New Year resolutions.
        • Since it is obviously a reference to New Year it was added to this category, although it is the first one released outside of December-January.
        • One of the resolutions is to reject temporal causality. So it could somehow have been released at New Year... it would be impossible to tell.
        • See that comic's trivia section.
      • December 29th: 2874: Iceland
      • 21st New Year comic released on January 1st: 2875: 2024
        • After 5 years without using this kind of title the new years number is again used as the title of this comic see the trivia for that comic.


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