Hey!

Did you see this? It’s a propaganda manga made to explain the purpose of the military partnership between USA and Japan. It’s title in English is “Our Alliance – A Lasting Partnership”. I haven’t read all of it, but it seems a bit interesting (it’s only available in Japanese though, sorry). Fully colored too. I didn’t see much US troops when I still lived in Japan, but apparently there are still over 35.000 of them to this day.
Apparently, the whole thing is going to be four parts long, and if you’re interested in getting updates from the site, just click the link that is kind of in the middle of the page. Where is says “新冊子閲覧可能のお知らせを御希望の際はこちらをクリックしてください。” and send a blank e-mail to it (that’s how I did).
This may or may not be interesting to you, if you’re not living in Japan/know Japanese, but I thought I’d show you anyways :p

Well, that’s it. I’m gonna cut things short this time. See ya soon!
/T

Hi there!

Wow this was a hard one! As you might have guessed, the windmill was the hardest part in this page! (^_^;)
My trick to get it right (at least I think I did), was to draw the “sails”, which I think they’re called, on a separate paper, seen from the front.
I then held the paper with the sails, in an angle that would represent the one in the panel, and looked at it with one eye shut. Then I put it down, and drew it in the panel.
I COULD have just scanned the picture and used my Photoshop magic to paste it into the panel, but I wanted to do it by hand, because I want to get better at drawing, and I think that hard work is good when you try to learn stuff. Yeah … (^.^)v

To change subject, I’ve just completed a long musical journey through Japan.
Well, not really, but almost ;)
I lived in Japan from August 1999 until the summer of 2000, and then again from September 2002 to the beginning of December 2006.
I heard lots of good music while I was there, and I’ve never really owned those songs, not even on mp3, well some of them maybe, but not all of them.
Then I got this crazy idea about four days ago, that I should hunt down and add all those songs I had heard to one massive playlist – on YouTube!
So I did that. I searched for all songs that I had heard, that had stuck in my head, for one reason or another, and made one big playlist of it!
Of course, keeping all those songs for myself would be no fun, so now I’m happy to present to you all …

J-Pop 2000

Ok, it’s not as fancy as it sounds, but it took quite a while to find all of them (there are 57 songs at the moment) and I had to do some research to find some of them, hehe (^v^ ) But it was great fun! There are many different styles of music there, so I think that there’s something for everyone.

Alright, enough for this time. Enjoy page 16! Cya!
/Tomii

Hello everyone and welcome to my webcomic ‘Pierre the Baking Cat’!

This is the first serious attempt at making a webcomic I’ve ever done. I don’t know much about anything that revolves making comics really, so I guess we’ll see how it goes :D The only thing I know is that it’s a lot of hard work and that I’ll have to be persistent and don’t give up! Don’t worry, I won’t! (^v ^ )

To the right you can see my Twitter-feed, here you can follow my progress with the comic between my posts here on the website. I’ll twit about stuff like how far I’ve come with the comic pages, what I’m doing at the moment and maybe post some useful or funny links from time to time.

Oh, and this comic reads from RIGHT to LEFT – Japanese style baby! (’ ▽ ‘ ) I know some of you are going to have a problem with this, but to my defence I can tell you it’s for a reason.

Except for wanting to tell you this story about Pierre, I’m also making this comic because I’m planning to enter contests with it; like the ‘Morning International Comic Competition’ for instance, which specifically welcome foreign comic creators.
There are other contests too (Japanese ones) that require your work to be in Japanese, black & white and of course, read from right to left…

As for me, it has become second nature to read this way. I lived in Japan for over 5 years, I have always loved manga and even now when I’m back home (in Sweden), if I go to the book store to pick up a manga, it still reads from right to left.
How about your country? Do the company that translates the manga also make it read from left to right?

Anyways, if you can live with the fact that the comic reads this way, and also that I’m a complete beginner at making comics I hope you’ll be able enjoy the comic as much as I enjoy making it!

Peace! (^▽^)v