About the comic

Hello everyone and welcome to my webcomic (or is it a “webmanga”?) ‘Pierre the Baking Cat’!

Pierre the Baking Cat, or just “Pierre” for short, is a very special project to me, because it originally started as a script for a children’s book. It was the second book I had ever written, and I was very excited about this new idea for a story I had come up with.

Unfortunately, Sweden is a very difficult country to get published in – especially if you’re a newcomer like me! Anyways, I sent the script to lots of publishers, big and small, and waited… and waited… and waited some more. I don’t know how things are done in other countries, but when you send your script to a publisher in Sweden, you’ll have to expect to wait AT LEAST three months before hearing from them – if they ever reply to you at all, that is (-_- )

Three months passed and after recieving letter after letter of rejection from the publishers, I felt very discouraged and, of course, very disappointed! “Why won’t anybody publish this great story!?”, I thought.

I had no other choice but to let it rest.

Then, one beautiful summer day, I was sitting in my garden and thinking about all of this. “If I can’t get my story published as a book, then what am I going to to with it?”, I thought. That is when I got this other idea. If I can’t get my story about Pierre published as a book, then how about as a comic? Better yet, as a MANGA!?

New ideas started to swarm inside my head, and it didn’t take long before I had my sketchbook and pencil ready and started to think up new characters for the story. And that’s how it all started!