Folks over at the Blog@Newsarama Fringe Benefits column, did a nice review of Midnight Sun, and gave special mention to the encounter one of the characters has with a polar bear in the book. Since drawing the page they sample there, I—like a lot of folks—have been following the “career” of Flock the baby Polar bear… you know, ‘cause he’s so darned cute. Unfortunately, though, the time I’ve wasted looking at the adorable beast has made me realize that in my drawing I’ve shorted the bear a couple of digits. Who knew polar bears had such strange feet, with no real thumb equivalent like a dog’s dew-claw? This should distract you from any further contemplation of my anatomical cartooning gaffs:
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Flocke is so cute! Let’s hope she doesn’t end up like poor Knut. He has the zoo polar bear madness, it seems. I think the Nuremberg slogan “”Knut war gestern” (Knut is yesterday) is so ill-conceived, as if polar bears are fashion accessories for zoos.