It’s been over a year and a half since Marooned began, and I’ve never officially asked for donations. That’s going to change shortly. I guess what it comes down to is that I provide a high quality product for free, so I shouldn’t feel bad about asking for some money.

However – I also believe you should get something for a donation – that’s only fair too! I’m working on the donation page now, and it will be up soon. But I wanted to give you a peek at some things you can get.

First – how about a couple buttons? The 1″ kind – Ril and Asimov:

I think they came out pretty nice. I’ll be adding other characters too, but I’ll be starting with those.

Next, iPhone/iTouch backgrounds – again here’s Ril:

I’ll be making a bunch of these. (Chris gets one for free, it was his idea!) I will probably do some regular desktops as well, but those are a lot more work and since there is a lot of desktop resolutions, there will probably only be a couple. I’m going to experiment with those.

You’ll also have the ability to request an artist’s card (size of a baseball card) sketch, or even larger sketches – even colored if you like. Of course everything will have an appropriate price.

For those of you unable to buy a book, this will be a more inexpensive way for you to support the strip.

I’m welcome to other ideas – let me know what other types of things you’d like to see offered in return. I’m even willing to offer original art too, that will be on the list.

Keep an eye out, I’ll be launching the page soon.