Problems fixed.

Someone made me notice that the Issuu link posted here were not working properly. When I went to check out I realized I had put normal html instead of using the special codes for blogger.

I am sorry for the inconvenience... having to follow a link and waiting for it to load can be quite painful.

I hope to find soon a nice alternative to issuu.

In the meantime I close the day on some 23 pages of Balthasar... and the next one will have some sweet moments in it, a wedding the pirate way and the beginning of a new love story... for Pifo! XD

I also already decided on the drawing for the cover and made some sketches... also I am preparing a nice post for Pifo, as his fans deserve to know more about him!

Coming up next, if you were curious about how I came up with the boys' names... I'll write a post about it too.

Chapter 1

The Pirate Balthasar - Chapter 1

This is it! Finally here... I know, I have been rambling about this for so long!

Well, I hope it didn't disappoint you.

I would like to ask you any feedback... mostly about the system I used to upload these.

I am using isuu... if you click on the title of the post it will bring you directly to the Issu page hosting this. So you can chose if you'd rather read it from the blog or go directly to the source.

It this hosting method doesn't suit you, please let me know and I'll try a different type of hosting system.

I also want you to know that if you go to issuu you can actually download the pdf of this chapter.

Only few hours to go

There!

Only a few more hours and chapter one will be online.

Be prepared for the file is quite big and if you have problem with Issuu's visualization let me know and I'll find and alternative system to upload our chapters.

Btw, in the meantime we have sailed on Facebook's waters too:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pirate-Balthasar/301170355833?ref=nf

Come and join our facebook page and be part of the crew!

Chapter 1 - cover

This is it!

I am done lettering and now I am creating my pdf's and doing spell check (but I cannot guarantee there'll be no mistakes, so if you find any, please let me know).

Chapter I will be like a nice Valentine present.

Cheers,

A little preview

A little preview of what will happen in chapter one!

Some cheese lines here but... wait to see the practical reaction of the

actual Pirate Balthasar!

Coming soon!

45 pages!

I finished inking the first chapter and I can now officially say that it will be 45 pages long!

Starting today I'll be rendering and adding the lettering... work permitting since I have two deadlines (one this week and the other one on the 15th).

Work in progress

I will keep you waiting a while, I am sorry, but the very first chapter of the Pirate Balthasar will be quite long.

So far I penciled in 33 pages (and I have to pencil 6 more at least), I cleaned up 25 pages and colored around 8 pages (7 of them are lettered).

I can usually pencil about 4 paged per day (I have to work too, sorry ^^), clean about 6 pages per night and color and letter 3 of them.

So I am sorry to keep you waiting, hopefully more people will find out about this comics in the meantime, thanks to the promos... and we'll gain some new friends to our pirates.

I am trying hard to make it so that the wait will be worth the while... it's a funny and romantic chapter. It introduces all the main characters and set ups are always very difficult.

I want you to know, though, that I have the whole story in mind. I know exactly where this is going and it will not stray.

You might not believe this, the first idea for The Pirate Balthasar was born in 1988. The story was worked on with my friend Giorgia (whose sense of humor helped me spice up my way of writing) for over 6 years. We had then produced so much material that we split the story in two different stories.

Some of it was turned into a Musical, the other part was turned into a novel of about 380 pages.

But honestly the comic was always the main nature of THIS specific story. It was born as such.

It all started with a masked pirate and a girl looking for her roots.

That remains in the story... everything else grew up to be something more!