After a much needed break, Wonkie is back! We would like to wish all our readers a very Happy New Year and the very best for 2009.

You may notice some funky changes to the site which include:

• A slick archive feature so you can browse older cartoons – by tags and cartoon strip categories (e.g. Viva South Africa, The Whole Truth, Bollywood Nights)
• Integration of surveys into posts (for the lazy among you who don’t like to comment!)
• A 5-star cartoon rating system with every cartoon post (for the even lazier among you – we really want your feedback!)
• Subscribe to comments feature integrated in every post
• Subscription to individual cartoon strips so readers can subscribe to only the strips they’re interested in
• A Contact Wonkie page if you’d like to leave us a private message or feedback on the site

The winner of the iPod competition for email subscribers will be announced later this week – stay tuned! We hope you’ll continue to enjoy the cartoons this year and look forward to your thoughts, opinions and commentary – have fun!

It’s been a rather busy weekend testing and taking live many hacks and changes to Wonkie. It’s all live and nothing seems to have broken (yet!) – hopefully it stays that way.

New features include:

• Three featured cartoon strips:- The Whole Truth (international news and commentary); Bollywood Nights (Bollywood celebrity news and gossip); and Viva South Africa (South African news, commentary, and observations) – These can all be accessed from the main menu bar under the logo
• Structured archives by cartoon strip, date, and cartoon tags (see the left sidebar options for these – e.g. if you want to see all cartoons with Paris Hilton in them click on her name in the Tag Cloud section)
• Wonkie updated to enable posting more than 1 cartoon per day (for days when I’m particularly jobless or just feel like wabbing)
• General colour-scheme, modified page layouts and advertising integration

Next on the list is an email subscription feature that will either email out the latest cartoon once it’s uploaded or send you a link to any new cartoon additions to the site. Let me know if you think there is something else useful I should add too – it would be great to hear your comments!