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I'm a Peanuts kid. I grew up on Charles M Schulz' strip; my dad has several shelfloads of the small paperbacks from the 50s and 60s and 70s, the ones with titles like Good Grief, Charlie Brown and You've Come A Long Way, Charlie Brown (I never did see the quasi-mythological Slide, Charlie Brown, Slide!)...and for the majority of my childhood they were all not-so-neatly packed into a bookcase that sat just outside the bathroom, making them perfect loo break reading.

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(Did you grow up with comic strips? What were your favourites?)

I've never played The Sims. Ever. But I keep coming across stories that make me want to start, particularly the online version. First there was the emergence of the Sims mob, and now this:

Yet Sims players are expressing themselves in that and many other ways via the game's family album feature, which was originally conceived as a way for players to photograph, collect and publicly share important moments in their Sims' lives. What no one imagined - leaast of all The Sim's designers - was that thousands of players would quickly bypass the album's intended use and instead use it to create dozens of staged snapshots, crafting what can be complex, scripted, multi-episode social commentaries, graphic novels or even movies, as it were, with the Sims starring in lead roles.

It's certainly a different approach to other online comics...