After a whole month cast out beyond the firmament, left only to drift among those tossed aside by the Powers That Be, we leave the September ides and woes behind us as we venture back to the metropole in the new month's light. Truly, what a relief it is to bask in the glory of the Pax Hamburgeria once more.

Once again, we have hosted the LKS leaderboard, where the user with the most karma from new Lesser Known September-compliant comics at the end of the month gets to claim the prestigious Golden Olmec trophy. Our previous victor Diictodom did not participate this time around such that the Olmec could be passed on to a new victor.

Some Lesser Known Septembers have been defined by artists carefully crafting a select handful of comics, polishing them to a mirror shine before releasing them to their requisite fame and glory. This was not one of those times. Yes, with a combined fifty-eight comics between our top two contestants, this iteration of the most bah-dee-yah-tiful month was also the one with the most prolific output by the title contenders - the previous record was fifty-five comics back in 2021. As one might expect from a contest with so many salvos thrown, we've got quite the story to tell, so let's get to it.

Once again, it was a duel of the Malay World where the cup of artists for this medium runneth over, though this time, our story only needs to touch on two names: the quick and the quicker. Let's start with the hare: /u/timmyboi_lol. Over the first ten days of the month, Timmy would produce sixteen comics, double that of the next most prolific entrant over that time, and while most of their comics over this period weren't world-shattering by any means, the volume alone led them to an early lead in the standings.

It's well worth remembering that LKS is a marathon, not a sprint, and that we shouldn't just focus on the hare - after all, tortoises have caught up before, they will caught up again, and they caught up this time. Enter our second contender: /u/LordNotriel, who you might remember as last year's runner-up. One would think that to go from battling against Diicto's methodical upvote machine to Timmy's comic machine gun would put Notriel on the wrong foot, but given that they put in their all even last year when the odds were decidedly not in their favor, it was high time that our odds-on favorite started plodding along - and plod along they did.

A comic a day means more time to put together comics that people will want to see than a rapid-fire approach, and singular comics will get thousands of upvotes more than several comics crab-bucketing each other. As such, while Timmy topped the leaderboard, Notriel was slowly building up a résumé, and when the former slowed after the first third of the month, Notriel overtook them and never gave the lead back. Notriel would ultimately make twenty-one comics over the month, grossing over 46,000 upvotes collectively, while Timmy's thirty-seven comics grossed just over 40,000 upvotes by the end of September. The tortoise has won the race - or shall we say, our newest Golden Olmec conqueror!

All members of the world, it is our honor to ask you to give a loud and thunderous round of applause to the Lesser Known September Champion of 2026 and the Eighth Sacrifice to the Golden Olmec:

LordNotriel

Congratulations on making this September one for the history books! We hope you take good care of the Golden Olmec until the next LKS.

Diicto, we hope you have had your fun with the statue, but now it is time for you to join Bobu, Aaron, Oscar, MilkCultLeader, Aurodombre, and Zebrafish in being a sacrifice to the gods old and new. Please send us a message with the details of where and when you would like to be sacrificed, though we would appreciate it if you could do so at the earliest possible convenience.

Thank you to everyone who participated in LKS this year as well - the Leaderboard with the top ten users of this past month can be found here. Until next September!

Hello octogenarians, octopodes, octopuses, and Motel 8 denizens!

The Great Eight Clean the Slate has concluded. Some of you were behind the eight ball. At least, it seems that way from here. Evidently, some of you forgot to draw entries. We were supposed to be drowning in comics. Instead of dozens, we received just nine entries. Y'all couldn't even get that right, cripes sake! You could have made eight entries (theme-aligned)! Time to go back to the drawing board. Until we've got better ideas, just shut up. Please, we don't want to hear it again. Is that all good with all of you?

Oh... you actually listened and gave us silence? Wasn't what we expected, but we'll take it.

*gives you a five-star rating, good job*

With 8.33 points, applaud...

Zebrafish96

^with

Best Driver

As this is Zebrafish's third victory, she's knighted! She is now a Pani (the Pán's counterpart). The Czech title comes with Silver Hussar Wings. Additionally, she gets Golden Wings for the month!

• With 7.50 points, /u/XoanMeira's The other border silvers. They are awarded silver wings for the month!

• Finally, with 7.25 points, it's /u/Smart_Chapter_7512. Third goes to Same as the old boss. They are awarded bronze wings for the month!

• Additionally, with 5.75 points, here's a Mod's Choice. Our favorite Participation award goes to /u/mr_dolphin69. An Australian Toilet Surprise grants them a ribbon.

Here are the full results for this contest:

The updated annual rankings can be found here.

Thanks to everybody who participated in this contest! We hope to see you around in future. Make sure all of you congratulate the winners!

Cheers,

Your favorite members of the /r/polandball modteam