As part of our feature “commissioned artwork of our characters drawn by other talented artists”, the Hungarian artist Squ-Chan drew the picture you can see above. It is titled “Halloween” and I have to say that these are some really scary costumes Sandra picked for the Halloween party. Well, at least scary for Cloud.

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Supporters can download the image in its original size (3360 x 2100) 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.

Our new comic Gaia, which is written by Novil and drawn and colored by Powree, will be released on Tuesday, 29 November. The release will contain the cover and the first 18 pages of the first chapter which is titled “The Red Hall”. After that, Gaia will be updated two times a week, on Tuesday and Friday 0:00 CET. Gaia is a high fantasy comic about the epic adventure of Ilias Oter and his friends and will be rated PG.

Here you can see three panels from different pages:

On 19 October 2008 the first Sandra and Woo strip was posted on our website, so Sandra and Woo is exactly three years old now. As you can see below, we found a nice number of readers, and I want to thank everybody who contributed to this in some way. I hope I’ll be able to write comics that are good enough to get 25,000 daily visitors eventually.

Here are five things I learned:

• You must always be wary that your sitcom style comic doesn’t become a soap opera.
• If you’re not always trying to improve, you get worse.
• 90 % of all criticism is just personal opinion.
• Making every strip of a longer story arc funny is incredibly difficult and I have high respect for every cartoonist like Bill Amend of FoxTrot who’s able to pull it off.
• I have no idea how Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes was able to produce such funny, clever and innovative strips seven times a week.

Our fantasy webcomic Gaia will start on the end of November and I’m very excited about it. I hope that a large portion of the Sandra and Woo readers will also read Gaia.

As part of our feature “commissioned artwork of our characters drawn by other talented artists”, the Swedish artist Daniel Olsén (Weremole) drew the picture you can see above. It is titled “Healthy-looking Girl” and directed at all dedicated Final Fantasy VII players who still remember the scene with Don Corneo at the Wall Market.

Click on the picture for a larger version (800 x 566).

Supporters can download the image in its original size (4961 x 3508) 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 part of our feature “commissioned artwork of our characters drawn by other talented artists”, the Indonesian artist Dewitri Virika (Yuki Makimachi) drew the picture you can see above. It is titled “To the House of Light” and one of several steampunk related pictures that will be published over the course of the next months. I have already commissioned two additional drawings from Yuki, who was one of five artists whom I considered as colorist for Sandra and Woo. By the way, Yuki is living in Bandung, just like Powree.

Supporters can download the image in its original size (3072 x 2304) 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.