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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...
Strange Animals 09aug2019: Complicators
August 9, 2019
Hi! I’m writing to you after close to a month, having made my peace with the fact that this is now an irregular newsletter. There’ll likely be one or more...
Strange Animals 10jul2019: Ideals
July 10, 2019
Back after a few weeks’ break. Some weeks, there are so many things happening that one or two things have to fall by the wayside. This time, that was the...
Strange Animals 10jun2019: Organising Principle
June 10, 2019
I just wrapped up a very satisfying week in terms of how I spent my time. I managed to keep work to eight hours or a little less every day, and I spent a lot...
Strange Animals 02jun2019: Follow-Through
June 2, 2019
That’s five months down, and unlike last year, I seem to be (mostly?) on top of my goals for the year. It’s still difficult to switch perspectives between...
Strange Animals 25may2019: Like the Bald Kid Said, There Is No Throne
May 25, 2019
Something else this week. It’s well and good to write a 1500-word essay every week, but sometimes you have thoughts that don’t need the length, and, I dunno,...
Strange Animals 17may2019: Life Is the Burning
May 17, 2019
Back after two skip weeks and change. It felt like a lot, and there was some guilt involved, but I needed the break. I thoroughly enjoy writing these, and...
Strange Animals 22apr2019: Writing for Writing
April 22, 2019
It’s Sunday evening as I write this, and I’ve been back home nearly a week, and am in the process of easing myself back into work mode. Still not full-time –...
Strange Animals 15apr2019: Words Count
April 15, 2019
Another week of travel with very little work, which I’m happy about. When I travel, I feel like I have permission to not work, because being outside my home...
Strange Animals 06apr2019: Short Trips
April 6, 2019
Writing this while travelling, so it’ll probably be shorter than usual. That’s the intention, but who knows with these things. Writing has a strange...
Strange Animals 19mar2019: Free the North, Save the World
March 19, 2019
Looking at the date up there, that’s almost a quarter of the year done, and I’m still settling into the rhythms of working less. As I’ve mentioned before,...
Strange Animals 10mar2019: The Wine-Dark Sea
March 10, 2019
It’s been a couple of weeks since I wrote to you. I was in a minor motorbike accident in which I injured my right arm, so it was difficult to type for a...
Strange Animals 17feb2019: Only It’s Got Pictures
February 17, 2019
A bit scattered this week. I’m finally back in my own house and slowly getting back in tune with things, but it’s Sunday, and Sunday’s always weird, because...
Strange Animals 10feb2019: Concept/Character
February 10, 2019
I’ve missed a couple of these—one because I was on break for a friend’s wedding, and the other because I was working overtime so that I could go on another...
Strange Animals 19jan2019: Read Through for Profundity
January 19, 2019
Hello subscribers old and new. Last week’s newsletter seems to have struck a chord—I got quite a few responses on the lettering exercise saying that it...
Strange Animals 11jan2019: Someone’s Gonna Miss Their Bus
January 11, 2019
I got a few rather heartwarming replies on the last newsletters, so it’s pretty clear that I have the best readers. Here’s the second one just under the...
Strange Animals 04jan2019: Begin As You Mean to Go On
January 4, 2019
Here we are on fourth day of the new year. I thought I’d send this out on the first day of the year, but come on, after the [insert level of debauchery here]...
Strange Animals 11dec2018: Time Has No Meaning
December 11, 2018
It’s been a while since I sent one of these. In fact, the draft of this in my Ulysses* was titled 26sep2018, when I started writing it on the banks of the...
Strange Animals 19sep2018: Hello from Out of Town
September 19, 2018
Short one this time, because I’m on vacation, and goddammit I’m going to avoid as much work as I possibly can. I’m writing this as I sit with a pint of red...
Strange Animals 30aug2018: Counting Up
August 30, 2018
Back after an entirely unplanned hiatus. In my drafts, this thing originally said ‘03aug2018’, so that’s how late I am with this. (Speaking of, how the fuck...
Strange Animals 25jul2018: Snip-Snip
July 25, 2018
I’ve missed the last couple of editions for various reasons, but as previously indicated, I absolutely intend to get these out once a week on average, so...
Strange Animals 26jul2017: Hey! Ho! Let’s Go!
July 26, 2017
Strange Animals has been missing in action for a bit. I skipped two instalments over the last little while, and it makes me sad because I knew exactly what I...
Strange Animals 25jun17: Life Happens
June 25, 2017
The newsletter for this time isn’t terribly detailed, but after a month away, I felt the need to assert that the newsletter isn’t gone, it’s just resting. As...
Strange Animals 10may17: An Entirely Predetermined Universe Without Free Will
May 10, 2017
Right Now Nothing Is Happening Note: There’s no comics bit today. My comics-analytical mind is currently occupied with something I’m doing for a friend’s...
Strange Animals 25apr17: In My Country They Call That a Rantephant
April 25, 2017
Conscious Uncoupling, Day 207 Hello, and welcome to the second edition of this newsletter. As with the first one, here’s some personal stuff (“human drama”...
Strange Animals 10apr17: Be Grateful I’m Not Calling This a Dispatch
April 10, 2017
Helpfully, Everything Is Meaningless Hello, and welcome to the first edition of this thing. Technically, I have no right to start a newsletter. a. My blog...