Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Weinersmith's first version of SMBC was a character-based three-panel strip done while he was in college. In 2005, Weinersmith wanted to work on SMBC full-time, and around this time moved to daily updates. By 2007, he was able to earn a living from the comic. Weinersmith has published a number of books collecting SMBC comics. He has also produced new comics to illustrate Soonish, a book he co-authored. == Themes ==

File:1775856247-Part4-sitefix.png|thumb|SMBC Spheres Part 4 (April 9, 2026), part of a series with Dr. Terence Tao explaining the mathematical problem of sphere packing.|alt=A webcomic with seven rows of frames. It includes caricatures of Maryna Viazovska, Terence Tao, a generic computer scientist and a generic physicist. In a 2016 interview, Weinersmith described the themes of SMBC as including science, philosophy, and economics, and has done enough comics on religion to release a book only of those comics. ==SMBC Theater==

Weinersmith launched a side project linked with SMBC called SMBC Theater featuring skits and short videos put up on YouTube. This was normally updated once a week on Mondays with one or two short sketches and as of February 24, 2018 the channel had about 80,000 subscribers. Certain holiday clips are marked "part one", although very few have a second part. Despite its one-shot style there were certain characters who have received multiple storylines, such as James Ashby as president, J.P. Nickel's news stories, Jon Brence's dating shorts, and Weinersmith as Jesus/James Ashby as God. All the videos are satirical. In August 2011, a project was successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter called "SMBC Theater Goes TO SPACE!". This became Starpocalypse, a space opera webseries, which was released on 25 December 2013. It was released on their YouTube channel on May 3, 2015. The channel stopped producing content between 2015 and 2020 when James Ashby started making Hand to Mouth skits. ==Reception==

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal was recognized in 2006, Glamour, Boing Boing, Bad Astronomy, Blastr, Blues News, Joystiq, and Freakonomics. ==Awards and nominations==

• Save Yourself, Mammal! (2011) • The Most Dangerous Game (2011) • Science: Ruining Everything Since 1543 (2013) • Religion: Ruining Everything Since 4004 B.C. (2016) == See also ==