It looks like Wonkie has finally crossed the great 10,000 reader mark in terms of daily CartOOn feed subscribers – definitely a pleasing figure and it’s been great to note the recent surge in the number of readers. Thank you all for signing up and please do feel free to drop Wonkie a line with any suggestions… it would be great to hear from you!

On an even happier note, Wonkie held the random draw for the Media Player competition on 30th April 2010 – all confirmed email subscribers as at that date were eligible. The winner of the recent Photo Caption contest with the Mouse in the Maze is also listed below (read the best entries for that caption contest here)

And the latest Wonkie Winners are:

CliveAlex……………. Mouse in a Maze Photo Caption Contest Wonkie T-Shirt
LuvLuv……………… 30th April Media Player lucky draw for subscribers
O Groenewald……… 30th April draw runner up – Wonkie T-Shirt

The next big prize will be a Media Player through a random draw across all verified email subscribers on 31 October 2010. Click this link if you haven’t signed up for the 100% Free CartOOns by email yet.

Thanks again for your support and please do keep spreading the word about Wonkie to friends and colleagues!

Over the last few weeks we have contacted some of our outstanding Wonkie winners from recent competitions and dispatched their prizes to them. This is a quick note to thank you all for participating in our various contests – from the Malemodoku (TM) puzzle last year which was a huge hit with readers to our recent Photo Caption contest with the Praying Mantis and the Dog (see the winning entries here)

The recent set of Wonkie Winners are:

Ribie Sebe…… Malemodoku Wonkie T-Shirt winner
Cyah…………. Malemodoku runner up prize winner
Nick Park…….. Malemodoku runner up prize winner
Kadudu………. Grasshopper and Dog photo caption contest winner
JJMac………… for submitting the 4000th comment on Wonkie CartOOns!

The next big prize will be an MP3 player through a random draw across all verified email subscribers on 30 April 2010. Click this link if you haven’t signed up for the 100% free Wonkie CartOOns by email.

As for a brief update – Wonkie CartOOns has grown in its short 16 month life to just over 7,000 email and RSS subscribers and a further 2,300+ fans on facebook. Thank you all for your support and please do keep spreading the word about Wonkie CartOOns to friends and colleagues!

CARTOON FREQUENCY UPDATE: Over the next 6 weeks (until mid-March 2010), the cartoon frequency will be dropping to just once a week as the Wonkie team will be distributed all over the world doing various cool stuff.

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

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: