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Hi fellow followers of my Blogspot.
I've moved over to Tumblr now.
here's the link: http://dalemaccanti.tumblr.com/
See you soon.

CHAMBA Cover

This is probably the most exciting news I've had in a while. The cover artist for INK TALES is confirmed and going to knock it out of the park!

Jeffrey "CHAMBA" Cruz!

Here's a loose sketch of the cover. I'll be revealing the final cover when the facebook page is launched. Hopefully soon.

Check out his deviant art page here.

Enjoy!

Pumpkin Problems

I've decided to revisit a short comic that Tennille Owens and I created about a year ago. The original draft had a few things that I definitely wanted to change. The title font and credits weren't legible, some of the narration was out of the 'live area' and the coloured narration boxes blended into the background. It still needs a few tweaks but my major concern is getting a consistent skin colour between all the pages. Trevor Wood (aka My Hero) gave me a quick lesson over Skype on how to fix it. I'll be looking for another artist to draw the second story of 'The Misadventures of Peter Pumpkinhead'. It should be released sometime next year.

If you know of an artist that might like to be the second artist, hit me up on facebook. 

One Woman Army

I think the title of this post says it all. Just received Gee Hale's finished Ink Tales story, which is killer! Gee lost half his work a couple of weeks ago because of a broken hard drive but jumped straight back into it. Will have another update shortly. Enjoy!

Kin

I've never done this before but it was a really cool experience and I highly recommend it! 

I Skyped Laura Goodings, the Ink Tales artist behind my story 'Kin'. 

Living in Melbourne and Laura living on the Gold Coast, we haven't actually met before. 

So we chatted whilst I watched her work on our story. Great way to collaborate and give on the spot critiques. I've included some progress shots of the first panel. Enjoy!

Tubed Answers

I think it's been long enough now to reveal the answers to my little quiz that featured in Tubed.
If you pick up a copy of Yuck! Number Seven by Milk Shadow Books (online or at All Star Comics, Melbourne) I included a game into my comic, where you had to name all the viral clips mentioned. Some were obvious but some were quite tricky. Stop reading now if you want to find all 24 references yourself, otherwise here it is!

The 24 Viral Videos:

1. Banana suit from ‘Peanut Butter Jelly Time’.
2. Free hugs t-shirt from ‘Free Hugs Campaign’. 
3. Treadmill from ‘OK GO – Here it goes again’.
4. The pole from ‘Star Wars Kid’.
5. Charlie from ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’.
6. Gary kicks a baby like in ‘Baby Kicked by Breakdancer’.
7. Keyboard Cat.
8. Cat tases Gary like in ‘Don’t Tase Me, Bro’.
9. Gary ejaculates like in ‘Lonely Island – Jizz in my Pants.’
10. Badgers, mushroom and snake from ‘Badgers’.
11. Badgers wearing high heels like in ‘OMG, Shoes.’
12. Charlie the Unicorn.
13. Blender from ‘Will it Blend?’
14. Avatar from ‘Leeroy Jenkins’.
15. Dramatic Chipmunk.
16. Egyptian dance pose like in ‘Evolution of Dance’.
17. Kid from ‘Chocolate Rain’.
18. Justin Bieber.
19. Susan Boyle.
20. Miss Teen South Carolina.
21. Hey Jude Kid.
22. “Why is this happening to me?” line from ‘David After Dentist’.
23. Rick Astley from “Rick Roll’d”.
24. Sneezing Panda.

After The Snow Scripted!

As a writer, I can tell you a script is never really finished. Time passes and there's always something that you feel like you NEED to change, for better or worse.

In saying that, I feel that After The Snow is finished to the best of my ability. It feels like I've been working on this script for years. But it hasn't been quite that long.

March 20th 2012 - I sheepishly asked Trevor Wood if I could write up a proposal after seeing a killer image of a dwarf named Doc. Which you can check out here.

May 8th 2013 - I feel like I've finished the final draft of the script. Who knows how long it will be before it sees the light of day. Hopefully before all my hair goes grey!

I thought I'd also attach some concept art for Roth the dwarf.

Enjoy!