Yo! Here's a weird Willie the Penguin comic strip advertising Kool cigarettes. I don't have a date on this strip but I do know they were printed in comic sections of the paper along with the regular strips. Something tells me that wouldn't fly these days.

I've heard stories about Willie from some of the old-timer comic characters. They say he was a sellout and once he got hooked on nicotine, it was all downhill from there. I think he was probably drunk in those first two panels, skating with half-lidded eyes into a sign right in front of him. And did he remove his feet in panel three? They don't have the skates on the bottom and they match his girlfriend's feet. Hmm.

Joe Camel got a bad rap for presumedly marketing cigs to kids. I think Willie is worse. What do you think?