King Features to launch Arctic Circle
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King Features will be launching a new comic on August 27. The new feature, Arctic Circle by Alex Hallatt, is a bout a trio of penguins who emigrate from Antarctica to the Arctic.
The strip centers on the friendship between three charismatic penguins, Oscar, Ed and Gordo, who move to the North Pole to escape mistakes they made in Antarctica. Other characters who round out the engaging cast include a cynical middle-aged polar bear, a gullible lemming, an intellectual snow bunny and a ruthless Arctic tern.
“When I first thought up the strip, I based it in the Arctic because I wanted a blank canvas for my characters. Penguins are funny birds to begin with and moving them to the northern hemisphere created a fantastic creative situation for me,” explains Hallatt. “The interplay between the penguins and the polar bear was the genesis of the strip, but these characters have developed to the point where the location of the strip has become secondary to the characters and the funny situations they find themselves in.”
Alex is originally from the United Kingdom by has since moved to New Zealand. In addition to her work on the comic strip, she also has done illustrations for newspapers, books and magazines.
You can see a bit of her work on her web site.
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