Just a quick note to thank all our readers, commentators and email subscribers for their support over the last year. The Wonkie team has certainly had great fun making the cartoons, entertaining you all and reading your thoughts and ideas on topical news.

Last year this time, we had just published our first few cartoons and literally had only a handful of subscribers. As of yesterday, we have over 5,500 email subscribers and over 2,000 fans on facebook (Click here to become a Wonkie fan on Facebook today!). There are now over 200 cartoons posted on the site and we are in the process of launching another cartoon site that will be less politics and more general cartoon fun – stay tuned!

Please continue to help us by spreading the word and encouraging friends and colleagues to join our community. Feel free to forward our Free CartOOns by Email promotion – if you are a Wonkie email subscriber you stand a chance of winning one of many prizes including Wonkie T-Shirts, Custom Pens and MP3 players.

Readers, advertisers and potential sponsors can Contact Wonkie here

Just a quick note to thank Wonkie readers for their patience over the last couple of weeks.. things have been a little hectic as all our volunteer team members are roaming about abroad or caught up in their day jobs so we’ve been irregular with the new cartoons – and no, we have not been trying to claim refugee status in Canada like Brandon Huntley!

It’s almost a year since we launched the site and it’s very pleasing to see how it’s grown. We’ve almost hit the 5,000 daily readers mark on Wonkie itself and we now have over 2,000 readers on facebook (Click here to become a Wonkie fan on facebook)!

Thank you all for the support and please do continue to leave your thoughts and comments on each post. Please feel free to drop us a line with ideas for new cartoons, articles and suggestions for improvement too – it would be great to hear from you! Readers, advertisers and potential sponsors can Contact Wonkie here.

Below is the list of recent winners of Wonkie CartOOns T-Shirts (at least those of you who said it’s ok to publish your names):

1) Angie Taalman,………………….. 11) Deena Naidoo
2) Nda Nxumalo,……………………. 12) Mpepho (pseudonym)
3) Thokozane Mkhize,……………… 13) Shirilele Masheleni Lawrence
4) Noor Sanglay,……………………. 14) Cheryl Buchanan
5) U2R1 (pseudonym),…………….. 15) Ntsane Ntsane
6) Albert Masinga,………………….. 16) James Farr
7) Rodney Lottering,……………….. 17) Gill K
8 ) Stephen Rogers,……………….. 18) Elizabeth Watson
9) Laban Ndlovu,…………………… 19) Gerald Smith
10) Amanda Watson,………………. 20) Meera Maharaj

Please do leave a comment to let us know you received your Wonkie T-Shirt!

Thanks to those of you that have been commenting regularly – please keep it going! The winner of last week’s Julius Malema on a horse caption contest is displayed in the comments section of that post (Click here).

Unfortunately Eskom appears to be back with its nonsense of unannounced power cuts for 12 hours at a time so there was only enough electrical oomph in our inverter for one cartoon. The weekly caption contest will be run on Monday next week instead. In the meantime, if any of you come across any amusing, funny photos you think would be good candidates for the caption contests please email them through to pratish (at) wonkie (dot) com.

In other news, the Wonkie team has been busy shipping off t-shirts to a couple of dozen readers, commentators, and runners-up to the April 30 win an mp3 player contest. Believe it or not, the winner and the alternative winner for the mp3 player have not responded to their emails as yet so we’ll be picking another name from the pot this weekend. We’ve been a little slack announcing the names of t-shirt winners on the site but we’ll hopefully get to it over the weekend.

In still other news, Wonkie will be reducing its cartoon output slightly over the next 2 weeks because of the recession (haha). Well, more because we’re upgrading the site to cater for the larger number of readers – we’re up to over 3,500 regular daily cartoon readers now – thank you all, please help us spread the word and email Wonkie CartOOns to your colleagues at will!

We also have an official Wonkie CartOOns page on Facebook now so please do join us there by becoming a fan: