Maury Forman
Description
Comic strips are excellent learning tools that often deal with real life issues. They allow people to see life from different viewpoints, raise awaren
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ess for current issues, and even teach us what it means to be human. The images, with limited text, convey lots of information that can be expressed with drama, puns, humor, and satire. They tell stories that can inspire, encourage and amuse, but they also provide teachable moments for our lives where we may see ourselves.
In many cases, we can relate to comic strip characters’ trials and tribulations in their own careers. In the comic strip Blondie, Dagwood is an office manager in a construction company and his wife, Blondie is an entrepreneur who started a catering business. (One of the first women-owned businesses in the comics). Mike Doonesbury is the co-founder of a software startup and characters like Clark Kent and Peter Parker both work in journalism. These fictional stories are tools that make sense of our own existence. How else can we understand and succeed in our professions without imagination that leads to innovations? No wonder so many comics adorn the cubicles and office refrigerators in countries around the world.
But there have been no comic strips about economic development that would allow us to laugh and learn from our foibles. That is until now.
It all takes place in Noah’s Town, a rural community trying to recover from years of natural disasters and the pandemic. The residents of Noah’s Town are all descendants of Noah’s passengers without the biblical implications. These anthropomorphic characters suggest that certain human characteristics are universal. They have businesses, jobs, and employees and work in the public and private sectors. Every comic strip has a hero, and what Noah’s Town needs is an economic developer to help grow the community by creating wealth for its residents.
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