Pengcognito.com
weekly penguin cartoon
Recent:

May 30: Everything else is free, but earplugs will cost you.

May 23: Does it count as cheating if it turns out to be _more_ work?

May 16: Some fails are too serious to even joke about.

May 09: Mother's Day traditions.

May 02: Could have been worse. Could have been bagpipes.

Apr 25: At the least, it's creative-adjacent.

Apr 18: Yes we know it's just a subsidy, but where's the fun in that?

Apr 11: Plausible deniability is an art.

Apr 04: One way to cure writer's block.

Mar 28: As long as everyone else involved does the same.

Mar 21: You're kidding yourself if you think it was ever going to be anything else.

Mar 14: Well they're penguins so they don't actually _fly_ the nest.

Mar 07: That's the one with the entropy.

Feb 28: Or circa 1950 - 1651 BCE, if you want to be picky about it.

Feb 21: I'm shocked, shocked! to find that hallucinating is going on.

Feb 14: A whole different kind of creative challenge.

Feb 07: It's one better than kintsugi.

Jan 31: Wait, reality altered in a _good_ way?

Jan 24: Fluid feline dynamics.

Jan 17: Experimental physicist, maybe?


 


Pengcognito FAQ
(new)Q: I want to make a comment about the strip - where can I go to do that?
A: Pengcognito is now available on three blogging sites. All three will allow you to create a free account so you can comment on the strip, as well as make a blog of your own. (C'mon, it's fun!)
Livejournal:
pengcognito.livejournal.com
Wordpress:
pengcognito.wordpress.com
Blogger:
pengcognito.blogspot.com
Q: Can you remind me when the new comic is up?
A: We live to serve. Here you go:
Notify me as soon as the new one is out:
This will get you the weekly newsletter, with links to the current cartoon.
Q: Suppose I am a role model, and I still want a penguin t-shirt, mug, mousepad, tote bag or tatoo?
A: You're in luck! Unless you want a tatoo. But lots of other penguin stuff is now available here:
www.cafeshops.com/pengcognito
To fit on the mugs, the strips have been changed a little or abbreviated. You can see the new versions here.
Q: What are those herrings and half-herrings doing next to the links? They're making me hungry.
A: Those are ratings. The more herrings, the better (as in life.) You are now able to add your rating once you've scrolled to the end of an episode; please feel free. We promise not to mail you guano or leftover herring guts if we don't agree.
Q: C'mon, that's really all the same peguin in different hats.
A: We're a bit insulted you can't tell us apart.
Q: Isn't it Bad to anthropomorphize animals, especially wild, endangered ones?
A: It would probably be better to penguify humans, but it's not nearly as funny. Besides, penguify.com was taken.
Q: Are you ever going to get in, um, compromising situations?
A: You mean, is your Big Brother filter going to block the site? Not intentionally on our part (this is as close as it will get.) It has already been blocked by at least one misguided program - for what reason, we have no idea, unless the filters are mistaking the word "penguin" for another famous and fun word that starts wth "pen"...
Q: The human world sucks. Can I come live with you guys?
A: You are welcome to stay here as long as you bring a couple of kegs of Herring Lager and cook the breakfast herrings.
Q: No, really, what's all this then?
A: Jen started making these as birthday cards for her sister Tina, who really likes penguins.

Then, since humans tend to go out in gangs for birthdays, she started doing them for other relatives and friends. They are the sort of things that are fun to pass around at Japanese steak houses while you're waiting for the chef to throw food on you.

Her husband (Moof) takes the actual penguin photographs, but most of the rest of it is not his fault. He comes up with the occasional brilliant inspiration, like the WaddleMaster 3000.

Jen can occasionally be found doing incomprehensible human stuff like writing USB device drivers for the Mac, doing software archaeology, or making database back ends for web sites at House of C, (a quirky little software company) when she really ought to be busy documenting the secret life of penguins, which is a lot more interesting.