Fiction: Philip Benjamin: Quick, Before It Melts (Random House, 1964) Philip Benjamin was a New York Times reporter who had been to Antarctica twice when he published the novel Quick, Before It Melts, later made into a movie. The title is a joke based on the idea that the Antarctic Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #156 – Penguins on Ice
Comic book: Sergio Salma: Penguins on Ice (ibooks, 2005) Penguins on Ice is a collection of comic strips about Fred the Penguin and his compatriots. The jokes are based on simple ideas, such as how all penguins look the same. The artist, Sergio Salma, is guilty of a sin so Continue Reading