Within the scope of our feature “commissioned artwork of our characters drawn by other talented artists”, the Indonesian artist Sia (Manusia-no-31) drew the picture you can see above. It is the first of several steampunk related pictures that will be published over the course of the next months.

Click on the picture for a larger version (800 x 600).

Supporters can download the image in its original size (4567 x 3425) 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.

Within the scope of our feature “commissioned artwork of our characters drawn by other talented artists”, the Bulgarian artist Denny (Exarrdian) drew the picture you can see above. It is titled “Procyon” since Sandra and Woo are checking out the star Procyon which might be the namesake for the Latin name of the raccoon, Procyon lotor.

Supporters can download the image in its original size (3200 x 2365) 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.

Loriot, the greatest German humorist that ever lived, died yesterday.

His sketches and cartoons are still as relevant and funny as they were decades ago when they were first aired/published. I doubt I will live long enough to see another comedian who’s able to match the standard he set. Loriot was a keen observer of the German nature, the petty bourgeois was the main target, but not victim, of his humor. In his sketches, seemingly ordinary situations featuring ordinary people subtly escalated into absurdity.

The following sketch doesn’t require proficiency in German except for his last sentence: “The picture is crooked.”

Within the scope 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, for obvious reasons, titled “The Flamethrower”.

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.

There are six new polls that appear randomly in the voting box on the right sidebar of the webpage. They’re mostly about topics that advertisers find interesting about the visitors of a website. It would be good if I could provide our advertisers some solid facts about the composition of our readership.