At first, it might sound almost condescending that we’re at a point in society/popular culture that we have to dumb down important news into the form of an entertaining comic strip, but take a look at what this start up Symbolia is doing and it’s not that at all. Informative, brief, and, seemingly perfect for the Internet, there is potential here and if it was funnier/more clever, it could be big.

Also, plenty of journalists could take a cue from this on how to get to the meat of a story.