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Strange Animals 26oct2020: Feeling Blue

October 26, 2020

Last week’s main essay seems to have gone down well – it’s the second-most read edition ever, and I got what we call in the trade a crapload of new signups....

Strange Animals 21oct2020: Is It Supposed to Look Like That?

October 21, 2020

As promised, here’s the main essay from this week’s newsletter, that apparently was too long to fit in one email with all the rest of the stuff. José...

Strange Animals 19oct2020: What’s Up, Date?

October 19, 2020

Another week, right on time. I know – I’m as surprised as you. And believe it or not, I got this one done on Friday – without Twitter, I was positively...

Strange Animals 12oct2020: What’s Moore Interesting

October 12, 2020

Actually landing this a week from the previous one, as promised. It’s amazing how much extra brain space you get when you’re not working all the time and can...

Strange Animals 05oct2020: The Return (After Being Away)

October 5, 2020

It’s been a while. Well, as we’ve all been saying for the past six months – it’s a pandeeeeeemic. *waves at everything* I have my excuse. At the end of last...

Strange Animals 27jun2020: Money Matters

June 27, 2020

This time, I mainly to talk about two things about money in comics that I’ve already posted on Twitter, but that I figured could use being put down a bit...

Strange Animals 13may2020: Side-Eyes

May 13, 2020

Depending on how you count time, it’s been anything from a few days to many weeks to several aeons since we last spoke. No matter. Time is an illusion, and...

Strange Animals 24mar2020: Stuff to Read in the Lockdown

March 24, 2020

As promised, this is a bonus edition, just collating all the free comics and prose that creators have been offering for people to read while cooped up at...

Strange Animals 23mar2020: This One’s About The Thing

March 23, 2020

Hey folks! Unless something incredibly surprising happens, this is the one time I’ll talk about the time we live in specifically. As big as the thing is, it...

Strange Animals 18mar2020: Big Ideas

March 17, 2020

Hello from the end times, apparently. What about that CoVID-19, huh? Far out. At this point, life hasn’t changed much for me, because I’ve worked from home...

Strange Animals 28feb2020: Left of Reality

February 27, 2020

I’ve been gone a few weeks, plus I realised we were due a wee station ident anyway, so here we go: I’m Aditya Bidikar, and in the main, I letter comic books....

Strange Animals 28jan2020: Pause, Breathe

January 28, 2020

Short one this week, and a few days late, as you can see. I’ll be honest, I’m struggling a little at the moment. This often happens at the beginning of the...

Strange Animals 18jan2020: Playing Against Type

January 18, 2020

This is now three whole newsletters actually sent weekly. Fingers crossed the streak continues. It would genuinely be a delight for me if I managed to send a...

Strange Animals 10jan2020: The Captain Lazypants Newsletter

January 10, 2020

Eleven days into the year and I’m already behind by two weeks. How’s your year going? Hello. Current Reading: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits –...

Strange Animals 04jan2020: Looking Forward, It’s a Whole Thing

January 4, 2020

2019 has ended, 2020 has begun. It doesn’t particularly look like the world is getting better anytime soon, but the other option is to turn back time, and...

Strange Animals 30dec2019: 10 Things I Loved in 2019 – Part 2

December 30, 2019

I’m writing this from Kolkata airport, on my way back home to Pune. I just landed here from Hanoi, and essentially plan on sleeping the whole day tomorrow...

Strange Animals 26dec2019: 10 Things I Loved in 2019 – Part 1

December 26, 2019

This is one of the two final newsletters I’ll be sending this year. We’ll be back to regular programming in the new year, and I’ll do a year’s round-up in...

Strange Animals 12nov2019: Post-Bubble

November 12, 2019

Hello from the UK! I’m writing this just after ThoughtBubble, sitting in Ram V.’s studio, while he works on a new super-secret script in the next room. I...

Strange Animals 28oct2019: Cases

October 28, 2019

We’re officially on Substack now – the sign-up form on my website’s been updated and everything. I’m sending a final blast through MailChimp for anyone whose...

Strange Animals 13sep2019: Scribbles on Screen

September 13, 2019

It’s been about a month since I last wrote you, and in the meantime, I’ve collected a pretty large bunch of new subscribers (Hello there!) when a tweet of...