A little bit of silliness.

The Penguin Symposium will be happening in South Melbourne Community Hall this Sunday. No actual penguins will be coming, but lots of people will be talking about them. I’ll be doing a little presentation on penguins in cartoons.

Part of a Midge Bristol cartoon on Little Penguins
The first presentation starts from 11 am and the symposium will finish at 3 pm. Lunch and afternoon tea will be provided (so please RSVP to earthcarestkilda@gmail.com).
South Melbourne Community Hall is on the corner of Park St and Ferrars Place. There is ample free parking and trams number 1, 12 and 96 are nearby.
Hope to see you if you are in the area!
If I could start over again, I wouldn’t have penguins migrate to the Arctic in my strip – it is something I have to explain a lot – penguins should not be hanging out with polar bears (or speaking, for that mattter…). But I’m not the only one doing it and I was enchanted to receive this image in the mail from fellow artist and perpetrator, Erik Brooks :

Polar Opposites by Erik Brooks
I’ll have to find out how his penguin and polar bear got to be together! Erik?