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This Week’s Word Is “Strange.”
Webcomics. Are they for workers? I’m a stay at home dad and read precisely zero webcomics. Who has time for that? Yet many of my friends with conventional jobs, seem to follow at least half a dozen.
Webcomics are the perfect short-form entertainment to flick to when you’re fed up with compiling the quarterly budgets, or whatever it was I used to do when I worked in an office. Which is why there are so many great webcomics out there. When a copy of Strange Planet dropped through my door, I had never heard of it but I was immediately charmed and entertained.
What Is Strange Planet?
Turns out it’s an Instagram sensation, which just shows how out of touch I am these days; 50 rotations of the planet is rapidly approaching! We’ve gone from the days where people might want “the book of the film” to delivering “the book of the Instagram account.” Not that cartoon anthologies published in the run-up to Christmas are a new phenomenon.
The Strange Planet cartoons are naively drawn aliens, who go about everyday life, much as humans do…
