Tonight on GeekNights, rather than talking about traditional webcomics, we consider the ones we stumble upon ad hoc in our social media feeds. Things like False Knees or webcomicname. Hit up the GeekNights Forum to see the list, and also to share the ones we forgot to mention!
Only now looking at the twitter account did I realise that āStrange Planetā is created by the same person who did the Instagram Stories Pigeons in New York videos:
From the podcast, this list seems to be the āsocial anxiety situationsā comic collection.
I kept showing these to my girlfriend, who kept saying "Yeah, Iāve seen that oneā¦ and that oneā¦ and that one. Turns out, if you follow the comicstrip hashtag on Instagram you get to see all these kind of things without curating your own list.
I donāt understand the appeal of comics like this, or things like Bojak Horseman. I have enough of my own anxiety, social and otherwise, to have any desire to experience someone elseās second hand, much less find humor in it.
The appeal is that there are other people who have nearly the exact same experience as you, and you can find some comfort/joy/solace/etc. in your shared humanity via humor and art.
I guess that works for some people but for me itās just uncomfortable and makes it worse. I donāt want to consume media that makes me feel bad, as I said I have enough of it in real life.
Not that I know of. The social media format lends itself to 4 panel jokes, like were in the newspapers of yore. The long form adventures you will find in the comic book store.