But with one normal eye and one giant, bulging, yellow eye, the "cockeyed" squid Histioteuthis heteropsis has perhaps the strangest visage of all.
After brief spells in punk and new wave bands, Strange formed Visage in 1978 with fellow Blitz club night host Rusty Egan, and the band released three studio albums before breaking up in 1985.
Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Strange's Visage bandmate Midge Ure paid tribute: "The Blitz, and the subsequent Blitz Kids who used to frequent the place, grew into a massive movement in the UK associated with fashion, and image and photography.
Just now, though, when you enter Tara's studio, you still walk into a world in pencil, chalk, ink, charcoal, gouache, a world where on paper are the visages, the strange turning spaces of an almost familiar New York.
His demeanour is earnest without ever veering too close to pious, his distinctive visage both attractive and strange, his voice both silky and sonorous, something akin to Bernard Sumner – if Sumner could really sing – and Morrissey, without the self-important, flick-of-the-wrist quality.
At the same time, Visage, the synth-pop studio "supergroup" Strange and Egan had formed with Midge Ure and Billy Currie of Ultravox and Dave Formula and John McGeoch of Magazine, came good and released their second single, the eerie "Fade To Grey".
This was a clever nod to Strange's appearance in the original video in 1980, an occasion the Visage frontman never tired of recalling.
He has expert timing, at times pacing the room to deliver thundering descriptions of strange terrain and hostile inhabitants, at times stopping to put on the visage of a pious holy man or to peer down at a young woman taking notes in the front row.
Strange was rewarded as the co-writer of all their subsequent singles – including the Top 40 entries "Mind Of A Toy", "Visage", "The Damned Don't Cry" and "Night Train" – and album tracks, though none proved as impactful or lasting as "Fade To Grey", a radio recurrent the world over to this day.
Michelle Immel had a similar experience at Visage à Visage.
