…hold on. Couple other items first. It’s a new year and I’d like to start it off by thanking everyone that supported the strip in 2006 (and of course those of you who were around in 2005). DeD landed in 56 newspapers in it’s first year. That’s quite a number by today’s syndication standards. Actually it’s a good number for the last twenty years. And it’s all thanks to you the readers.

So onto 2007. Lot’s planned. A few surprises. I’ll be working on the site redesign soon. Nothing really dramatic yet. Also, there will be a shop section in the near future and of course the upcoming first collection. No details on that yet. And one surprise has to do with Doug and Sophie taking off into another medium…the square, paper laden kind. Ah, but we’ll save the official announcement on that for a later day. But not too later.

And so the winner is….Johnny Wang!

Thanks to everyone for participating. It makes a huge difference. I’ll be running another contest soon!