I'm hoping for a happy and healthy 2024 for us all.
This cartoon is semi autobiographical although Covid and the pandemic restrictions pretty much cured me of FOMO. I'm now far happier to stay home and enjoy the little things.
But I would like to write a bestseller!
The first syndicated Arctic Circle comic strip appeared on August 27th 2007
The three immigrant penguins arrived looking quite different to how they've evolved to look now. But the underlying theme hasn't changed. Here are a selection of strips - one from each year of syndication:
The world has certainly changed in 13 years. Electric cars are now awesome. Solar and wind power are cheaper than fossil fuelled power in the majority of the world. Regenerative agriculture is catching on as a way to build soil (and fix carbon). And more people CARE.
Let's celebrate that.
Seen recently at the Canterbury Museum - real (though stuffed) Arctic animals.
Compare and contrast the real and comic strip polar bears, lemmings, snow hare/rabbit and Arctic tern.
Uncanny, right?
And of course there are no immigrant penguins in the real Arctic…
