Sandra and Woo and Gaia are now officially published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

This means you are free to share the comic strips/pages, that means to copy, distribute and transmit them under the following conditions:

• Attribution: You must attribute the creators and the source of the comic strip/page. This means you aren’t allowed to remove the creator names and the website url at the bottom of the comic strip/page. If you want to use a cropped piece of a comic strip/page, the same information has to be found in text format next to the image. An additional link to http://www.sandraandwoo.com/ resp. http://www.gaiacomic.com/ is very appreciated.
• Noncommercial: You may not use the comic strip/page for commercial purposes.
• No derivative works: You may not alter, transform, or build upon the comic strip/page.

The license only applies to the comics in the comic archive written by Oliver Knörzer (Novil) and drawn by Puri Andini (Powree). It doesn’t apply to all other pieces of artwork found on our websites.

In other news, I’m now a member of the German Pirate Party. I don’t agree on some of their political goals, but they are currently the only political party that credibly fights for citizens’ rights and against censorship. In September 2011, they achieved a spectacular result in the Berlin state election with 8.9% of the popular vote.

As part of our feature “commissioned artwork of our characters drawn by other talented artists”, the Indonesian artist Sia (Manusia-no-31) drew the portrait of Cloud’s mom Ye Thuza you can see above. The peacock is a prominent symbol of Burma and the NLD party (National League for Democracy).

Supporters can download the image in its original size (2456 x 3716) and as a wallpaper on the special page for donators.

I’m open for suggestions for subjects that you’d like to see drawn in color. A new picture will be posted every second Saturday.

As a reply to the widespread protests against the censorship laws SOPA and PIPA yesterday, the U.S. government shut down the file sharing site Megaupload.

I myself used Megaupload to distribute a video game mod developed by my mother and her team. Megaupload has also been known to remove pirated movies and music particularly fast compared to other file hosting sites. But since it was the web’s largest file hosting site, it was the perfect scapegoat for the so-called content mafia (MPAA and RIAA).

I believe it is coming close to the point where it becomes a moral obligation of every internet user to give companies that strive to destroy the free internet, maybe the greatest invention in the history of mankind, as little money as possible.

You can help to keep the internet alive by raising your voice against censorship and supporting independent artists!

As part of our feature “commissioned artwork of our characters drawn by other talented artists”, the Philippine artist Jericho (Serathus) drew the picture you can see above. It is titled “Watchful Eye”.

Supporters can download the image in its original size (1800 x 2500) and as a wallpaper on the special page for donators.

I’m open for suggestions for subjects that you’d like to see drawn in color. A new picture will be posted every second Saturday.

Here is a diagram that shows how often the main and supporting characters appeared in the strips of each year (there were only 20 strips in 2008):