Yoram Bauman explains (in an interview with Newsarama) how his article in the Annals of Improbable Research led, more or less, to his new book The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume One: Microeconomics:
Eventually it got published in this humor journal called “The Annals of Improbable Research”. They present the Ignoble Prize every year.
Then I didn’t think very much of it until 2004. The Annals of Improbable Research people host a humor session at the AAAS meeting, the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2004 it just happened to be in Seattle, so it was a big deal. As one very small part of it, they have this one hour humor session, and since I live in Seattle, they invited me to present my paper. I had so much fun doing that – it was my first time doing stand-up – I was like, all right, I gotta start going down to open mike night.