Yo!

For those of you that haven’t noticed, I uploaded the new character art for Chloe a few days ago, which you can find at the bottom of the ‘The Characters‘ page. The new version gives a better impression of her and what she looks like in the comic. I’ll update Pierre’s and the mailman’s character art as soon as I get time to do so :)

This page also presents two new characters to the story, you’ll see what they’re all about in page 30! hihi (^ v ^ )

Oh, this is not related to the comic at all, but I saw the movie ‘Lost in Translation‘ for the first time evar yesterday and I can highly recommend it to you, if you haven’t seen it before!
Just be aware of that this movie contains no violence or action whatsoever, so if you’re looking for an action flick, this is NOT what you’re looking for :) The movie leaves you with a feeling of loneliness and might even be a little depressing, but don’t let this frighten you, because it’s really worth a watch!

Well, that’s all I had for this time, enjoy the comic and have a good weekend!!
/T

Hi guys!

I’m feeling a little down today :/ The reason for that is because today I got some bad news at work. To make a long story short; I won’t have a job to go to next week. It’s not because I got fired, but the thing is that I was only there as an intern and today I was told that the internship will end at the end of this week!… Yeah, it was super-short notice, but it was because of an “human error”, so I can’t really be mad at anyone.
I guess I could see it from the bright side – now I’ll have more time to work on the comic! But, on the other hand, if I can’t pay for food and rent.. well, you get the idea (>_< )
Ah well, I’m not the only one to be unemployed and broke these days – far from it!

To all of you who are also unemployed: Everything will be alright, sometimes you just have to give things time and N-E-V-E-R give up (<– this is the most important part to remember)! Better times are coming, friends. Just hang in there!

Now, enjoy the comic!

/T

Hi guys! Here I am with another sparkling new page of ‘Pierre the Baking Cat’. Can you feel the suspense building up yet? hehe >:)

I made some small changes to the site just now:

- Added small ‘Project Wonderful’ ad-spaces at the top of the site.
- Made the ‘Donate’ and ‘Buy Stuff’ buttons smaller and moved them down a bit.
- I’ll see if I can make a so-called “Favicon” for the site tonight. I don’t know why I haven’t done this earlier, but I think it’s about time now! It doesn’t do much, but it’s a nice touch, right? :p

Yeah, that’s about it :) Is there anything that YOU still misses on this website? Perhaps there’s something that you wish could be changed or added to make the site look better or whatever, drop me a line if you have any suggestions okay? (^w ^*)

Oh, and page 28 is also coming real soon, be sure to check it out! (^ v ~)

See ya soon!
/T

Hi all, here’s page 26 for ya!
I’ll also upload page 27 and 28 in a few days hopefully. The inking on those pages is finished, I just need to get them proofread and add some screentones and stuff – the usual :)
I’ve tried to put more time & energy into making the comic this past week and I think it’s paying off. I’m already sketching up page 30. We’ll see for how long I’ll be able to keep this up :/ I’ll do my best!

Until next time, enjoy!
/T

Wazzup everyone!?

I don’t really have that much to add, except that I’ve uploaded some updated Claude art in the Characters section (it’s at the very bottom of the page so you’ll have to scroll down) :p
Eventually I’ll make new art for all the characters, but I don’t know when it’ll be done, so you’ll just have to be patient!

What else? Hmm… Well, yesterday I finished one of the hardest Nintendo games I’ve ever played; Ghosts n’ Goblins for Famicom!
You can almost hear the game producers laughing at you when you’re playing it – that’s how HARD it is! Of course I had to use continues to be able to beat it two times, but I can at least come to level 5 without dying. When I first got the game, couldn’t get past level 2 so… yeah, “practice makes perfect” I guess :)

I’ve also discovered that if you’re getting tired of listening to music while drawing, you can always open up some random video blog on YouTube and listen to that instead. It’s actually kind of refreshing! I like to listen to this guy. He’s doing video game walkthroughs with commentaries and he’s quite fun to listen to. Highly recommended!

“How do someone get tired of listening to music?”, you might ask. Well, if you’re like me and often listen to the same songs over and over again, you know what I mean! ;p As long as there’s something in the background, I’m happy.

That’s it for now, see ya!
/tomii

Hi everyone, here’s page 24 at last!

This site has got about 50% new visitors and equally as many returning visitors at the moment. This has got me thinking… Wouldn’t it be nice for new visitors to be able to choose whether they want to start reading the comic from the start, or from the last page posted?
If I bought a comic at the store, I know that I wouldn’t like someone to tell me how the story ended before I had started reading – I’d want to read it from the start, of course!

With the current setting, when someone enters the site, they get to see the last page posted. This comic will eventually come to it’s end some day and when the last page is up, that’s what both new and returning visitors will see when they open the site.
SO… I was thinking about presenting the visitor with a choice when they open the site; do you want to read the comic from the start, or from the last page posted?

I think I’m actually going to go through with this. How about you? What kind of setup do you have on your webcomic? What do you think of this idea of mine?

Until next time!
/Tomii

Hi everyone!

I can’t remember how long it was since I last updated the comic, but I think it was like, 3-4 weeks ago! Sorry about that… (^_^;) Hopefully I’ll get more time to spend on the comic now when Christmas is over.
The next comic page will actually act as the half-way mark through the comic! I estimate the whole story to be around 48 pages, so there’s still a lot to be said and done – but I’ll get there!

This page will present two (almost ) new characters to you! Chloe and Claude.
They actually made a small appearance on page 6 already, but at the time I drew that page they had a slightly different design. I’m still thinking about changing that page later, to make them look like they do now, but I haven’t decided yet.
Many people have told me that they look like Team Rocket from Pokemon (-_-;)
I’ve watched/played a lot of Pokemon too and I know what Team Rocket look like, so I know what people are saying.
With the new design I tried to make them look less like Team Rocket and more like the other Blup Valley citizens. The biggest change probably lies in their height, because if you look at them at page 6 you can clearly see that they are like twice the size of everyone else! Why did I make them like this? Probably because I wanted them to:
1) Be different from Pierre in any way possible, and
2) look really, really evil! >:)

But then I was thinking “So why REALLY are they taller than the other characters?” Are they from a different country? Are they of a different species?
I couldn’t think of any logical/interesting reason for this, so I opted to make them the same height as the other characters. Did I make the right choice?…

I don’t know when the next comic page will be ready, but I’ve sketched out about 85% of it, so it’s in-the-works!

Thanks again for checking in and for being patient! And if we don’t see(?) each other again before New Years Eve – Have a happy new year!!

Sayonara!

Hi!

I was supposed to post this page yesterday, but I was still a little unsure about the script and needed a second opinion – so I asked my big sister about it and she helped me back on the right track (^ ^ ) She’s a very talented artist, by the way. So why don’t you check out Cecilia Elfving’s website here. Oh, and she works only with aquarelle, so her style is completely different from mine, just to let you know :p
Anyways, sometimes I take my work too serious and end up having trouble with deciding on what to do. A true perfectionist’s dilemma, indeed (^_^ ;)

Speaking about the script, I can tell you that there’s a very high chance of me changing the comic’s epilogue… again! :/ But relax, because I’m doing this for a reason, and it’ll only help the comic make more sense! Trust me. And with the new epilogue, I can actually get rid of pages 2,3 and 4 as everything you need to know about he story will be covered by the new intro.

Oh, and when I have some time over (I wish) I’m going to prepare some link banners that you can use if you ever want to link to this site. I’ll tweet about it when it’s ready (’> ‘ )

See ya!

Finally!

It’s been a long time since my last update and to my defense I can tell you it’s been the most busiest month I’ve had this year! It’s been mostly job-related to be honest, but thankfully things have started to slow down again, so I hope I’ll be able to get more pages done soon!

There are two new things on the site since last time (which I can remember at the moment…)
- A ‘Links’ section, where I’ve put up lots of links to sites that are either useful, funny or whatever. For example I have a link to an excellent webcomic tutorial which is well-worth checking out!

- Facebook Fan Page, you’ve probably seen it under my Twitter-feed thingy to the right. If you like the comic and want to show your support, but don’t want to donate money or whatever you can just become a fan! Of course, it’s free and it’s only ONE mouseclick away (^ v ^ )

Well, that’s it for now, I’ll try go get started on the next page ASAP. As a matter of fact, I’ve already sketched out 2-3 pages already, so I can get started on the inking process right away (^ _ ^ )

Oh, and In case you haven’t read my Twitter lately, I’m doing a redesign for Claude and Chloe. I posted a link to the new Chloe concept image Twitter, but I’ll post it here again in case you missed it :) (oh, and I’m thinking about changing her eye shadow color to green… what do you think??).

Chloe’s new look

Well, until next time, ciao!

Hi everyone!

Sorry about the delay, but I’ve been a little tired from work lately and this page had a little more detail than usual. I actually build Pierre’s whole store in 3D to be able to get the right mood in that lower right panel! I think it turned out nice, don’t you think?

If you haven’t checked out the ‘Characters’ section lately, you should! Because I added two new-ish characters there this week – namely Missy and Ms. Denise! And, as I wrote on my twitter, I’ll probably redraw the other characters as well to get a fresh new look on them too.

One more thing, I’m thinking about making a so-called “fan page” for this comic on Facebook … but the problem is that I don’t know exactly what I would do with it after (^,^;) Ah well, I guess I could just create one to begin with and see where it goes from there? I’ll twit about it when it’s done! :D

Well, it’s Saturday and it’s cold and windy outside … guess I’ll just have to spend my whole day drawing and drinking tea, yay! :p Man, I haven’t played any video-games in AGES … it’s time to change that!! (*-* )

Now, enjoy the comic!