POKEY THE PENGUIN!!REBOOTLEGGED
THE ORIGINAL THE POKEY THE PENGUIN STRIPS CAN BE FOUND HERE!!!!
THE "AHA! SO THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE STORIES, IS IT?" ZONE
Project Censored -- censored and downplayed stories in the media.
THE DELIGHT ZONE:
BOO FOR SELDOMLY UPDATEDLY NEWLY AUTHENTIC POKEYS!! YASS!
HOORAY FOR RE-FRIED BOOTTOES!.
HOORAY FOR iHERE NOW LOOK 500X200 POKEY BLOOTEGS!!hhiES:wqDRAT.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Oh I don't know what you should bookmark. The only one that's guaranteed to work is "http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/r.f.smit/pokey/". So keep that one. Another one will work for a good while (due to the happy generosity of Marc), is this: "http://pokey.electric-dreams.org/". Pokey (rebootlegged) will have his own domain. Some day.
THE HISTORY ZONE:
One day at work, a colleague was laughing heartily at a strange cartoon strip named "CHINESE DENTIST ONO HOLIDAY", drawn by someone at Silicon Graphics. That was drawn by someone who despaired at the lack of daily updates to POKEY THE PENGUIN. The scripts were written by his friend, and then incorporated into the strip. I thought this to be a Fine Enveavour, and looked up this mystery, the POKEY THE PENGUIN. And was delighted! What I was looking at was something that explained every aspect of working life, and gave meaning to the hopelessness of ever trying to help people with computing qualifications far greater than my own understand how to "LOG ON", or "PRINT", or any of the other subtleties.
I started this bootleg of Pokey the Penguin on June 2nd 2000, after reading that some people had been saying BAD THINGS about POKEY THE PENGUIN and THE AUTHORS, because there was not a new strip every day. Someone else defended THE AUTHORS, and someone else was challenged to draw 24 strips in 24 hours. A spectacular failure ensued. So I decided I'd give it a go myself, partly to make up for lost Pokeys, and partly to understand how hard it really was for myself. I kept it up for three weeks and a bit, by cheating. I drew several in one day, and revealed them, day by day. I know this is the way Real Cartoonists work, but it still felt like cheating to me.
Four and a half years later, I'm still drawering them. On and off. Mostly off. And people have despaired at me at the lack of my updates. And thusly have bootlegbootlegs sprung up! HOORAY!