As you may have noticed some better illustrations have started to appear around the site. My own humble sketches can't compare to a dedicated artist. I was lucky to find an illustrator specialized on manga cartoons, which I thought fit this concept very well.

He has now done character illustrations for the official characters so far. There will be more of those added along the way. Villains are for example still missing.

Another area are illustrations for single stories which add value from my point of view. Just look at this story (only Swedish at the moment, sorry) about Humberto Sanchez that I got an illustration (above) done for. This one was of course drawn specifically for this story. But over the next couple of weeks it is my intention to add more generic illustrations starring the different characters, illustrations that could be used by stories written by different authors.

Over time the gallery will hopefully grow to have hundreds (or later thousands) of images to provide a variation for stories. For me, this is going back to the roots of storytelling. In the 19th century it was very common to use illustrations in novels, not just in books for children but for all ages. Here on Second 61, we are bringing it to the 21st century.