Comic 2

To the left shows a picture of a live penguin and its parent in their natural habitat. Looking at this picture you can see the penguin is a bird but not an ordinary bird. It has a white belly and a black back and side. The penguin’s wings are flippers. In my comic strip that shows two penguins they resemble what a penguin should look like but the author added human characteristics and unnatural colors. I did some research on penguins and they are derived from mainly Antarctica and the southern hemisphere. They feed on krill, fish, squid, and other sea life. They are a flightless bird that spends half of its life on land and the other half in the water. The penguin does not always live so far south as everyone assumes, these birds actually live as close to the equator as the Galapagos islands. The bird also varies in size from small to large.

Now as for the possible landscape I would assume the author meant for it to be Antarctica. Antarctica the furthest southern continent and is covered with ice, nearly 98% of it. The continent is the coldest, driest, and has the most wind of any continent; it also is the most elevated.

Now knowing all of this information the way I perceive this comic is slightly different. I now know where this comic takes place and some history of the penguin and its habitat. Instead of thinking the scene was located in the north pole I now know it’s true location. The author did a good job in getting the background of the comic to match the look of real Antarctic scenery. He shows just glaciers in the distance and bare tundra, he did not add anything else as to distract the reader of where the humor is. The penguins are slightly altered than what they would naturally look like, granted this is a cartoon comic. The penguins color does not match that of a true penguin, the penguins also have human cloths and facial expressions.

I think the author used penguins because they are a non violent animal to human and people refer to them as cute. The penguin is almost an icon of cuteness, there are many stuffed animals and other penguin accessories. The author new this and used the penguins as a medium to create a happy and funny comic that would appeal to children and anyone else. The center of which this comic’s humor derives is from an unknown furry ball. This is the punch line of the comic; it is just there smiling not moving. The author plays of the colorful human like penguins and the furry ball to make the comic what it is. The rhetorical appeal of this comic is to make you laugh and wonder, if the blue ball is actually siting or not.