Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

About

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC) is a daily webcomic series written and illustrated by California-based artist Zach Weinersmith.

History

Webcomic

On January 28th, 2002, Weinersmith released the first incarnation of SMBC, featuring the romantic and academic lives of several recurring college student characters, running until September 3rd that year (shown below).^[1]

On September 5th, Weinersmith launched the current version of SMBC,^[2] which contains no recurring characters or storylines, but focuses on themes surrounding religion, superheroes, romance, science, parenting and philosophy.

SMBC Theater

On July 20th, 2009, Weinersmith launched the SMBC Theater YouTube channel, featuring skits and other short videos written by Weinersmith. As of August 2014, the most viewed video is a sketch comedy video featuring a brainstorming session for sex tips to be published in the parody magazine Cosmotopian with over 420,000 views and 490 comments (shown below).

SMBC Collection Kickstarter

On January 23rd, 2013, Weinersmith launched a Kickstarter campaign for a printed collection of science-related strips from the webcomic. By the following month, the campaign was funded with $341,667 of its $20,000 goal.

Notable Comics

Traffic

As of August 2014, smbc-comics.com has a global rank of 5,873 and a United States rank of 1,927 on the traffic analytics site Alexa.^[3]

Search Interest

External References