Time to meet perhaps the most influential cartoon penguin of them all; Chilly Willy. Created by Paul J. Smith for the Walter Lantz studio in 1953, Chilly Willy soon became the second biggest star of Lantz studio, right behind Woody Woodpecker. In Finland these Chilly Willy's comic book outings were published in Nakke magazine (1955-1992, named after "Nakke Nakuttaja", the Finnish name of Woody Woodpecker) under almost direct translation "Ville Viluinen". I have quite a pile of these comics from my childhood, too bad the paper it was printed on has a composition just marginally better than standard issue toilet paper.

To give you perspective on how big influence the character has had on pop culture, just look at his design. Despite the fact there is no penguin species with his kind of color patterns, majority of people think most penguins are colored like this. This has resulted in most penguin cartoons and toys using either these patterns, or the ones of Emperor Penguins. This pop-culture penguin archtype, as I like to call it, was something we intentionally messed around with in TAGAP. After all, TAGAP's penguins are made up by humans as well, only in bio-engineered fashion.