Micro-post #219: Ben Plater's "Handsome Pete Ballman" (a very dry absurdist comic strip)

Some of my favorite accounts to follow on Instagram and Reddit are weird and funny cartoonists and/or strips, with one of my favorites right now being Handsome Pete Ballman by Ben Plater. There's not much to say about it, other than it's about a Wall Street firm VP in 1984 named Pete Ballman (whose head is literally shaped like a football) and his beleaguered employees (especially Toby and Yvonne). The humor is so dry and stupid, I can't help but laugh each time I see it posted somewhere.

Illustration from Ben Plater (taken from Tapas)

The whole series is posted on Webtoon and Tapas, but I'll provide some Instagram posts for a taster.