Apologies to our regular readers for the intermittent breaks in the cartoons – these are likely to continue over the next 3 weeks or so as Wonkie upgrades a few of our more popular cartoon characters with some smarter looking ones. We’re also planning on sending out a few Wonkie t-shirts to our top commenters on the site so please do take a moment or two to let your opinion be known on whatever the issue is… we’d love to hear your thoughts!

Coming up over the next couple of weeks is a series of cartoons on BBBEE (affirmative action) – from a variety of different racial perspectives. Look forward to reading your thoughts on the subject since you all had a fat lot to say in emails to us last month!

Thanks again for your support and please forward these cartoons on to anyone you think may enjoy them.

Today we happily arrived at a small landmark of the first 1,000 subscribers to Wonkie.com. Just thought I’d write a quick post to thank all the people that have recently signed up to receive the free cartoons by email. Since launching late last year growth has been steady and the stream of comments coming in has been increasing and encouraging.

Please do leave your comment on the cartoon and the issue – the point of the site is to have a laugh and to give you a platform to voice your opinion – even if it is totally contradictory to the post!

We’ve also been receiving a number of requests for cartoons on different themes – from BBBEE and international politics to ermm.. how can I put it – cartoons celebrating racial diversity in the world. Please feel free to leave a comment on this post or indicate in the poll below which of the following themes you’d like to see more cartoons on.

I would like to see more cartoons on... (pick one or more)

• International politics
• Finance and economics
• Celebrity News
• Lighter side of racial stereotypes
• Life in the New South Africa (from BBBEE to Fifa 2010!)
• South African politicians and the SA elections

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Thanks again and hope you continue to enjoy the cartoons – please drop us a line through the Contact Wonkie page with any feedback, compliments, insults or suggestions for improvement.. we’d love to hear from you!

Wonkie is taking off very well from meagre pickings of less than 1,000 visitors in the first month to well over 1,000 unique visitors yesterday alone. On behalf of the team, I would like to sincerely thank everyone who has read, laughed at, scoffed at, posted comments on and subscribed to Wonkie cartoons – we plan on keeping you coming back for more in the year to come.

We’ll be on a short break from 20th December until the 2nd January – or perhaps a day or two later if the hangover is really bad. We have some exciting stuff planned for Wonkie next year including:

• Special cartoon coverage of the South Africa 2009 elections
• Subscription for individual comic strips (e.g. Bollywood Nights) rather than all of them
• Additional cartoon strips on various themes (e.g. Office humour, Dating)
• Surveys on topical issues with results presented in cartoon format (e.g. BBBEE; politics)
• Star rating system for cartoons

If you have any feedback, ideas as to what you’d like to see, or even if you fancy making cartoons with us for a bit of fun, please drop me an email at pratish (at) wonkie.com. It would be great to hear from you.

Finally, a special thanks to Michael Trapido from Mail & Guardian ThoughtLeader and Gareth Cliff from 5 FM, both of whom were very encouraging and were kind enough to give us media newbies some exposure by publishing some of our cartoons on their websites.

We wish you all well over the festive season – keep safe and please don’t drink and drive!

The last few updates on this cartoon blog have taken a little longer than expected.. largely because my learning curve has tapered off as has my free time. A couple of queries to create cartoons for the blog by readers have been very encouraging. As I’ve indicated on our About page, we welcome all input – especially funny input in the form of posts and cartoons! So let us know if you have a particular theme you’d like to cartoon about and we’ll see how you can incorporate it into the site.

For those with limited drawing talent like myself you can create and submit your cartoons made on sites like JustOneSite or HastaMilan together with your post by email – send your submissions to pratish (at) wonkie dot com and we’ll format it for publication here if it’s good, giving you full credit for your efforts.

In the meantime we’re working on a way to allow readers to incorporate the Wonkie cartoons they like directly in their blog, discussion forum, facebook pages etc.. watch this space!

It would be great to hear from any experienced internet marketers out there – particularly on the topic of getting a blog greater visibility. I toyed a little with Google Adwords and found it to be quite an expensive way to generate hits. Still, it’s given me a dozen RSS feed subscribers I otherwise would not have had and set Wonkie well on its way to making us poor cartoonists famous bloggers!