anweshapaultimesgroupcomhow odd do you think it is to hide piles of clothes in the closet before someone visits home or aim for the bulls eye during a game of darts while sipping beers with your buds or even pull out that precious bottle of aged wine from the cellar for your best party not very right well if you ever read nathan w pyles comic strange planet filled with wry observations on seemingly regular human behaviour everything we do would suddenly strike as very odd nathan holds a mirror to human behaviour using strange blue humanoidlike characters who do exactly the things we do at home school workplaces or the streets and when he lays it out in a comic like that it just becomes evident what an odd bunch we really are its this that has struck a chord with people of all ages earning him close to 45 million followers on his instagram handle india being quite the strange planet in itself has held nathans interest for a while now and comic con hyderabad gave him the perfect opportunity to satiate his curiosity about all things indian from the spicy food to the crowded colourful streets on the sidelines of the recentlyconcluded event hyderabad times caught up with the new yorker to talk about his art his inspirations and his maiden visit to india excerptswhat was the inspiration behind strange planetmy wife and i were tidying up the home before a party when i realised how odd it is to hide all of ones possessions before friends visit the very first strange planet comic focused on this particular human habit since that day i have made over 300 comics that focus on a variety of human experiences when i am thinking about new comics to make i often think about how it might be to try to explain every human tradition to a very emotional adult being visiting from another planet i think the emotional part is very important because humans attach very strong emotions to all their traditions did you set out to hold a mirror to human society when you conceived these charactersultimately i love celebrating humans i think humans go to such great lengths to entertain themselves and each other it is quite inspiring when i think of something like confetti its tiny trash thrown into the air and then cleaned up it is quite a bit of work all for the sake of celebration from teaching theology to designing tshirts to making comic strips your career trajectory is a meandering one do these varied experiences contribute to your artstrange planet plays on a wide variety of human experiences so yes my comic work draws from each job i have had in my life i think my time serving tables has been particularly helpful because you end up meeting so many different people in a restaurant tshirts bearing your work have been spotted on popular sitcom characters how did that feelseeing someone on