(Note: This is said in all seriousness and not in anger, since I realize that y'all mean well with your suggestions.)
It actually *is* a pretty significant thing to change it, since a trademark costs $400 and must be purchased for *each* logo or variation thereof you wish to trademark, and for *each* venue (i.e. one trademark for the site, one for shirts, one for hats, one for bags, one for signs, one for calendars, etc. - all at $400 each). I've already got many more thousands of dollars and countless hours of unpaid work into the site, artwork, trademarks, software, research, writing, volunteering as a speaker, etc. than I can possibly afford. The funding (my pocket) won't support it, even if I were so inclined. The GotMead gear stock is the *least* of the costs involved.
Were you offering to pay the fairly large sum of money it would take to hire the artist to do the variations, pay for extra trademarks to protect them (because until I trademarked them, I spent a lot of time going after thieves who used the logo without permission), do the marketing both online and offline to re-establish the brand, etc.? If so, email me privately, and we'll talk. I'll not promise anything, but if you're willing to fund the work, I'll listen. Mind, we're talking minimum $2,000-$3,000 just for trademarks and artwork.
The original artwork that my friend did to create the Meadwench is just that, artwork, done with pen and ink and paint, not on a computer. He gave her to me as a gift, despite the fact that he could easily have gotten a great deal of money for the time, effort and creativity he gave. I would not presume to ask him to make me several other different Meadwenches, each of which would take hours and hours of his valuable time. Not unless he was getting paid his normal rates for such work.
If a person 'gets the wrong idea' just because of the size of the mug, or the cleavage (and I honestly don't get the cleavage thing, given what they show on TV during prime time 24/7. Besides, her bosoms aren't even visible, her hand is in front of them), then I have to wonder exactly what they're here for, to make mead, or what? And, what sort of 'wrong idea' do you mean, exactly? That mead comes sometimes in a mug? That mugs come in different sizes (I've seen all sizes in my wandering on historical and archeological references)? That mead was drunk in past times? I'm confused there....
I also have to wonder if said person has depth perception, as that larger mug is meant to suggest a 3-dimensional aspect to the drawing. The mug is coming out of the drawing, being offered up and therefore closer in space than is the wench holding it. It is slightly exaggerated to make that point.
I have much less time than I'd like to have to spend expanding and improving this site between my 4 jobs. So having a long-running discussion on, or spending considerable time on changing or not changing my logo (which isn't going to change in the foreseeable future in any case unless someone else would like to foot the bill) seems to me to be an inefficient use of of the limited time I have available to manage this site......I think you'll agree that my time would be better spent improving the usability and available information on Gotmead.
Everything I do on this site costs me either time, money or both. I prefer not to spend my personal cash and limited (unpaid) time on things that will not directly increase the collected knowledge of mead, or make it easier to locate, (the main goals of Gotmead), and I also would rather not to waste money already spent by ditching 15 years of branding efforts to make Gotmead as easily found and recognized as it is.
Let's go back to learning the finer points of meadmaking, folks......isn't that why you came here originally?