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“Bad penguin” cartoon. A penguin dressed as a gangster

December 19, 2011 by chrismadden

penguin gangster cartoon

Penguin cartoons. Even bad penguins look cute.

A cartoon about anthropomorphism and penguins and the fact that penguins always look cute (which annoys some penguins who want to look tough).

This cartoon is funny because it has a penguin as a gangster or similar criminal type, which goes against penguins’ anthropomorphic character type of being cute and clown-like.
A secondary joke is that the gangster penguin is carrying a machine gun case that is shaped like a fish (rather than the usual violin case).
Original version drawn: 2001
Cartoon reference number: a020

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Filed Under: ANIMALS, Birds, Penguins

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