Back in March, Chris Sweet, an artist on the 910CMX (Wotch) forums, made the following announcement:

OK, it looks like there's no action whatsoever going on in the new CMX calendar thread, so I'm going to beat people to the punch and do my own thing.

I think, if anyone's going to do a successful calendar, it needs to look nice. I frankly cannot read some of those CMX comics because the art is so terribly juvenile. Don't get me wrong -- you're all great people -- but let's be honest with ourselves. That last calendar was... lacking.

So I'm going to kickstart my own CHARITY CALENDAR. That's right. Something really nice, really affordable, and one where you, the people, will get to choose the charity. I'll scan the interwebs for reputable ones, and then put them up for a vote. It'll be 100% non-profit. I'll edit it, run it, etc, but I'll donate every penny of profit to the chosen charity.

In the meanwhile, I'd like to know who's interested in submitting, and if we'll have enough people involved to even do this. I'm hoping for semi-professional work, stuff that people will look at and say, "Wow, I wish I could draw like that!"

The theme?

Oh no, it turns out those 1970's doomsday prophets were right all along! Civilization is destroyed by nuclear war. All of Earth is reduced to an arid desert. People eke out life on the fringe, banding into grisly, gutsy, no-nonsense gangs and splinter colonies. What little is left of technology is patched together with ingenuity and elbow grease. Mutated danger lurks around every corner! But does this stop people from being HAWT?

Heck no!

I want some scenes of smokin' hot post-apocalyptic girls roughing it out in the desert. We'll keep it to a PG-13 level, so there has to at least be something covering those things.

Advanced Level Forum Artists, heed my call!

He's one of the more respected artists on the site, so when he sent me a message asking me to take part, who was I to say no? I ended up doing three pictures, low-resolution versions of which are in my gallery, and :devdliar48: contributed one. All proceeds go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. [link]

So, if you want to support the EFF, need a new calendar, like my work, or wharever reason you want to think of, here's the [link] to the calendar. Ignore the varied spelling mistakes - the people at the site have said they're going to get around to fixing them when they "get around to it". The sentence is shaped like itself.

Best/Dan