The pirate Balthasar will turn two at the end of the month.
I can believe it's already been so long, it feels like yesterday to me.

I will be releasing the second artbook for the anniversary but I was thinking we should play a little game too.

I was thinking about a fan art/fan fiction/graphic design/photography contest and the award would be an original drawing of your favorite characters in full colors that I will personally ship to you via snail mail!

What do you say? Are you in?

Deadline would be January 31st!

Alright guys I am back from my vacation,
sorry if the posts have been a bit weird these past few days.
I will post some of the sketches I did for fun while in Japan and the Christmas cards too.

In the meantime the Secret Santa is over (I have 3 missing in action, sigh).
If you haven't checked them out you can check them out here: http://thepiratebalthasar.blogspot.com/

Alright guys... I have 3 wishes left orphan with no secret santa... so...

anybody cares to take on a challenge and write fan fictions on these themes?

1) A fanfic about how Cat and Foxy met;
2) A fanfic about Cat and Callista exchaning presents;
3) A fanfic about Kane and Josh in their young years;

Hello secret santas!

Here's an update on the list and the game.

Deadline still December24th.

How to enter? Posting here or via email (dedadaniels-at-yahoo.com)

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Updated list:


Wishes awaiting a Santa

1) A fanfic about young Martin;
2) A fanfic about how Cat and Foxy met;
3) A fanfic about Cat and Callista exchaning presents;
4) A fanfic about Kane and Josh in their young years;

Wishes with a secret santa

1) a cute Cat art;
2) A regular drawing of Cat;
3) Westley, Kes and Itzak at Christmas time;
4) A picture of the whole crew with all the couples together;
5) Castalia, Kane and Fickle reading Christmas stories;
6) A drawing of Castalia dominating Kane (it may be during a duel)
7) A drawing of a fencing, shirtless Martin;
8) A drawing of Cat and Callista

As you may know by visiting the blog: http://thepiratebalthasar.blogspot.com/

You can get the updated version of the chapter, without the typos and fixed, for download.
I already posted the curiosities which might answer many of your questions:

The list to the super santa is now posted on the left column of the blog and shall be updated regularly as new people enter the game.

Here's the most recent updated list:

Wishes awaiting a Santa

1) A drawing of Cat and Callista (<--- new entry)
2) A fanfic about young Martin;
3) A fanfic about how Cat and Foxy met;
4) A fanfic about Cat and Callista exchaning presents;
5) A fanfic about Kane and Josh in their young years;

Wishes with a secret santa

1) a cute Cat art;
2) A regular drawing of Cat;
3) Westley, Kes and Itzak at Christmas time;
4) A picture of the whole crew with all the couples together;
5) Castalia, Kane and Fickle reading Christmas stories;
6) A drawing of Castalia dominating Kane (it may be during a duel)
7) A drawing of a fencing, shirtless Martin;

I was Stinking... yeah, that too... but I was thinking... why don't we play a Secret Santa game this year?

Of course cyber Secret Santa.

It's the usual give and take.

You enroll a Secret Santa.
You make a wish and take a wish into your hands.
You make that wish come true and somebody else will grant yours in return.

So let's say: Jane enrolls and says: I can draw! And I want a Quoque/Rose fanfiction.
Another person would enroll and say: I can write that fan fiction but I want a poetry in return.
Another person would go: I can write poetry and I want a drawing of Kane.
The first person will say: cool I draw Kane for you.

Tadaaaaa. Secret Santa set in place. Everybody gets a gift. So the first thing you do is you enroll, state your skill and make a request.
I will create a table, that I will keep updating putting an X when the wish is taken.

So far we have 12 participants, 6 of which already found a Secret Santa. 6 of them have yet to pick whose wish they want to make come true.



Wishes with a Secret Santa:

1) a cute Cat art;
2) A regular drawing of Cat;
3) Westley, Kes and Itzak at Christmas time;
4) A picture of the whole crew with all the couples together;
5) Castalia, Kane and Fickle reading Christmas stories;
6) A drawing of Castalia dominating Kane (it may be during a duel)

Wishes left with no Santas:

1) A drawing of a fencing, shirtless Martin; (<--- new entry)
2) (I am missing a wish here XDD)
3) A fanfic about young Martin;
4) A fanfic about how Cat and Foxy met;
5) A fanfic about Cat and Callista exchaning presents;
6) A fanfic about Kane and Josh in their young years;

I have 3 people who can write who could tackle the fanfic now, but since you already made a wish remember that it is your time to give back.
If a fourth writer doesn't show up I'll become the fourth one and you'll get an original story instead (but it's a secret santa until the very last moment so you won't know).

I keep forgetting to mention datelines.

Dateline for Secret Santa Submission is December 24th, because the presents will be posted on Christmas day!

Alirght, people, it's time to get the game started!

It's very simple: you have to pick a voice that you think might go well with this or that character from the comic!

I already received two proposal so soon enough you'll see me linking videos from youtube and stuff... unless you find a better link for me to post with a phrase or a song or something that you deem to be perfect (otherwise you'll have to go with whatever I find).

Now I know that a lot of you will propose American actors/voice actors but you have to keep in mind that European voices sound different and you have no idea how much more different voices are in Asia!
So I truly hope to receive names and voices from around the World and yes, here I say it: I put no limitation on the language spoken.

So if let's say, for example, you find a hot actor or singer from Finland that you think could be perfect for our Fynn... please do send me a sample of his voice as it would be incredibly awesome to hear the doctor speak in his own language: apua!

The game is opened to all the characters!
I proposed the shalalas for example but if you can find a nice voice for Rose going fantastically mooon river on us, I would love to hear that too. Or if you have an Indian actor in mind for Quoque just bollywood me like crazy.

What do we do with all the sounds, except for having fun for a while? I was thinking, time permitting, of creating a short video associating the voice to a drawing, compiling it together... at first character by character. So if you pick a 10 seconds line per character that we could blast under the drawing, imagine how hilarious that would sound.

So here comes the CHALLENGE!
If you go hunt for sound and send me a link, indicate the timing of the line you want to pick. I will splice and edit the sound for you so that when we go to POLLS I can already put the sound under the drawing and the result should be something to giggle about for months to come.

At the very end, the most voted will be edited together!

So, are you in?

Yes, so apparently the Drunk Duck awards opened on September 11th and will opened until september 25th and we are running for it. I don't know if any of you has a membership there too but just in case...

If you are a Drunk Duck member you can vote here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dDk2a3ZSM2ZTUzMzRHJ1UUlHTEMxN0E6MQ

this is our "for your consideration" page: http://www.drunkduck.com/Drunk_Duck_Awards_2011/5353992/

So yeah you actually have to be a Drunk Duck user to vote for the Pirate Balthasar, this time around - which might make things complicated!

Oh well, we'll see how it goes! Right? :D