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Each year around this time we give away a bunch of Wacom tablets to up-and-coming artists!

Last year I announced a winner every day for over 30 days straight. I'm planning to not be as crazy this year but we'll see what happens.

The first Wacom winner for 2009 is aap!

If you aren't familiar with aap, here are some goodies:

• 
  Blergh by aap

  Click to view.

  Type

  Movie

  Rated

  Ages 17+

• 
  Blerf by aap

  Click to view.

  Type

  Movie

  Rated

  Ages 17+

• 
  Taxi by aap

  Click to view.

  Type

  Movie

  Rated

  Ages 17+

You may also be familiar with Gher, which made front page but never got a lot of views:

• 
  Gher by aap

  Click to view.

  Type

  Movie

  Rated

  Everyone

• 
  Gher 2 by aap

  Click to view.

  Type

  Movie

  Rated

  Ages 13+

Aap's most recent movies are about a monkey!

• 
  Controlling the Jungle by aap

  Click to view.

  Type

  Movie

  Rated

  Ages 13+

• 
  Brown Bean Pudding by aap

  Click to view.

  Type

  Movie

  Rated

  Everyone

Aap is hoping a Wacom tablet will allow him to bring higher quality art and animation to his future movies. Hopefully more intestines, too!

In other news...

lenkobiscuit has made a call for characters to appear in his upcoming Winter Flash-Off submission!

Monthly voting for Best of November started today, so check your account options page to see if you're in the voting pool.

Artists should check out yesterday's post about Twitter skins and the Winter Flash-Off.

At 12/1/09 04:22 PM, Jinx-Studios wrote: What kind of tablet are you giving away?

I don't think I'll enter, I already have my trusty bamboo...

They are Bamboo Fun Mediums.

Random side-note, if anyone else wants a pixel winter logo, I just worked some magic on the pixel tank logo that Anna Anthropy originally made for When Pigs Fly.

From my original post:

Thanks to the ongoing success of Castle Crashers, we're once again giving away a bunch of Wacom Bamboo Fun tablets for the holidays.

Submitting your information will not guarantee you a tablet, and PLEASE don't apply unless you have a proven track record on Newgrounds; examples include high scoring submissions, submissions that have won awards, or featured artwork.

To apply, PM me with the following info in this specific order:

FAILURE TO ADHERE TO THESE RULES WILL RESULT IN YOUR REQUEST BEING IGNORED.

1. The subject "WACOM TABLET"
2. Line one: Your NG USERNAME.
3. Line two: Leave blank.
4. Line three: Your full name.
5. Line four: Your mailing address (may be multiple lines)
6. Next line: Leave blank.
7. A brief or long story about why you want a tablet and what you hope to accomplish with it.
8. Direct links to your best Flash or Art contributions.

Sorry for being so strict but hundreds of people come out of the woodwork each year and I need to keep my notes tidy!

A few pixels in that logo were bugging me, here's an update:

Random side note, do you guys think this wallpaper would get us kicked off Twitter? I'm not sure how picky they are.