“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead

Tuesday, January 11th is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. In honor of the event, I teamed up with the Comic Creator’s Alliance–a group of over 100 comic book creators (both web and print!) who volunteered our artistic talents to raise money and awareness for this cause. You may not know it, but there are currently 27 million enslaved people worldwide- more than double the number of enslaved Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. UNICEF estimates that 1.2 million children every year are sold into slavery, most of it sexual. The US Department of Justice estimates 16,000 victims of human trafficking are brought into the United States every year. Unlike slavery in the 19th century, what is happening today is happening in secret. It won’t end until awareness is raised, and people like you and me take a stand.

So here’s what we did: each creator contributed an original drawing of one of our own female characters, and combined them into a single image! This year’s theme was “The Brady Bunch.” There is so much going on in this image–you can look at the wallpaper for a long time and still find something new! All of the artists included in the drive are amazing and some of the fan favorites are: Scott Sava (The Dreamland Chronicles), Adam Hughes (Star Wars, Wonder Woman), Sarah Ellerton (Inverloch), Bryan Glass & Victor Santos (Mice Templar), Beau Smith (Wynonna Earp: The Yeti Wars), Billy Tucci (Shi), Mookie (Dominic Deegan), Crystal Yates (Earthsong), Lora Innes (The Dreamer), Thom Zahler (Love and Capes), and Alison Action (Bear Nuts). View the full listing of contributors here: http://comicalliance.weebly.com/the-people.html. You can of course find me there!

Donate today to download this unique, once-in-a-lifetime wallpaper. Or, this year you can buy a print! The Donations Drive will last for two weeks, from January 11th – 24th. All proceeds will be split evenly between Love 146 and Gracehaven House- two organizations working on rehabilitation of victims and prevention of this crime.

To learn more about the CCA and to donate visit www.comicalliance.weebly.com. To learn more about the problem, visit http://love146.org/slavery. (Note: contains adult themes and actual accounts of sex slavery.)

Happy Holidays DELVE Readers! The site is finally in the holiday spirit as I am, and I hope you all are too! Thank you all for voting on my survey previously posted- I really appreciate having the info, and thanks so very kindly to those who commented! I was really touched by your wonderful comments. It’s great to know who’s reading, and I will definitely keep working hard on DELVE!

So, to thank you for voting and for reading I’ve drawn up a new holiday-themed FREE wallpaper! You can find it in the wallpaper section as well as this month’s donation wallpaper! This time it was your vote that decided: I drew ya’ll up some toasty Mirari fanservice. She’s none too happy with the outcome, but I hope you all like! Also, all wallpapers (including free ones!) are now available in iphone wallpaper size. So you can enjoy DELVE on the go if you so desire!

Thanks again, and I hope you’re all keeping warm as the snow descends! Ta ta for now, it’s back to work for me!

Hello everyone~! I’d love it if you could take some time out and fill out a supahquick survey about the comic and site. It’s mostly just curiosity’s sake- but it also includes a question that may greatly impact December’s donation wallpaper coming up! So you don’t wanna miss out on that, eh? So please fill this thing out, and, as always, thank you so much for reading, and Enjoy! Happy Holidays ya’ll :D

The December wallpaper will be up soon and we might just see some snow on the main page yet~