Previous penguins can be found here.
Mary Laura Philpott is a writer and artist living in Nashville. She is the editor-in-chief of MUSING, the literary magazine produced by Parnassus Books, and writes for various outlets including The New York Times and The Tennessean. The book Penguins with People Problems is now available from Perigee Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.



I like the assertion that the vomit of live sharks is infinitely grosser than the vomit of dead ones.
FYI- The movie Zombie Shark is on SyFy tonight. I know this because I spent last night watching Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf.
Ooh, how was that? I watched a good portion of Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark on Saturday night after I got home from my friend’s birthday. A+, would drunk-watch again, (alliterative) props to the sentient shark-shaped submarine.
I feel like the target audience is pretty much the same. If you enjoy high school project level special effects, a character with a terrible german accent trying to create a master race, and dialog that was probably already rejected from a porno then you’ll probably enjoy it.
When Random House and Penguin merged to form a new publishing Super Group, I sooo wanted them to call it Random Penguin.
That’s where the name of the Tumblr came from! TheRandomPenguins.tumblr.com
It isn’t just water, it’s splashback! That water contains at least some wastewater particles from the last time you washed your hands! There are pee molecules in there! And if you share a sink, that means it’s someone else’s pee water!
It isn't just water, it's splashback! That water contains at least some wastewater particles from the last time you washed your hands! There are pee molecules in there! And if you share a sink, that means it's someone else's pee water!
Yay! I love this tumblr and I love these comics. More please.
That's where the name of the Tumblr came from! TheRandomPenguins.tumblr.com
Mary Laura, you and your penguins bring joy to my life. You’re a gem. Thanks! 😉
Living in San Francisco makes me think the book cover from the first one would start more conversations than it would stop.
I have also realized that I kind of want to read it (what do we know about the first mammals? Are
marsupials really as much more evolved than us gynecologically as I’ve always assumed or do they get cramps too?)