The artist
Z1Xwitch
Not much is known about him beyond what he chose to post. Everything on this page comes from his own posts, his archived website or the press coverage at the time. Nothing has been filled in by guesswork.
In his own words
In his own words
“just an outlet for my strange sense of humor”
He described himself as a graphic designer, and that is how he drew: one frame per joke, clean black lines, flat colour, a donation address in the corner. In July 2011 he told the thread he was trying to get back to posting every day.
The work
Thirty-two strips in eight weeks.
From June 9 to July 31, 2011 he posted episodes 001 to 032, often one a day. The jokes came from what the forum was going through: GPU rigs overheating, Mt.Gox going down, the Silk Road headlines, lost wallets and QR-code thieves.
Episode 033 followed in September 2012, posted along with a new Facebook page for the comic. In April and May 2013 he drew three more in a reworked style for his own site at z1x.dk, the last of them about the Mt.Gox Dwolla seizure. After that the thread goes quiet.
The record
- Last archived strip
- May 15, 2013: “the MtGox Dwolla seizure” (2013-003)
- msg2159159(opens in a new tab)
- Press
- A strip ran in the New York Observer’s “Bit-O-Money” feature, June 2011
- Observer(opens in a new tab)