This is a huge win for The Oatmeal founder Matthew Inman. Tumblr has agreed to use an image created by Matthew Inman, the founder of TheOatmeal.com. This image is the equivalent of Twitter’s “fail whale,” or an image that appears when the website is down.

I’m a fan of The Oatmeal and Matthew Inman’s work. In this case, he decided to take on the name of the volcano in Iceland. The volcano name is hard to pronounce so he made an infographic making fun of it. Above are the results. [The Oatmeal]

Matthew Inman is one of my most favorite cartoonists on the Internet. He is the founder of TheOatmeal.com. TheOatmeal.com has infographics that are very humorous, yet informative at the same time. One of my most favorite infographics that he made was “15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee.” Inman used to work for a marketing company and did not enjoy it much. Inman started a dating website called Mingle2 so he could make his own money. He used his viral marketing techniques and comics to get people to gain interest in the dating website. After he sold Mingle2, he decided to start a website dedicated to just the comics. Inman said that he found inspiration from Gary Larson’s cartoon The Far Side. Below is a mini-documentary about Matthew Inman from Last Call with Carson Daly.