from Puppy with Love – flash back

Last couple weeks I got a few people asking me why 52 in puppy52?

The short: Puppy= Xiao gou 小狗
was my pen name when I submitted comic strips to the papers in my teens,
52 looked like a heart shape so the meaning = puppy love.

The picture above is the scan of the cover of my first book, drawn in my late 16, published when I was around 17 years old. It was entitled “from puppy with love” and designed such that to look as if it says “Puppy Love”. It was my first attempt to draw something that over 100 pages, and there is countless mistakes in it which I am embarrassed to mention!

I’m not very proud of the standard of my work inside, but I am still to date thankful for the chance to have it published at my tender teenage years. I must also thank the countless people who helped me made it possible then, it was definitely an experience of a lifetime!

The long of it, and the foreword which cracked me up still…


Thank you gordon for helping me with the script (which I hope I am using correctly!)

22 replies
  1. gordon
    gordon says:

    xiao pian i see. that’s one of the friday weekly staffs. i used to read friday weekly when i was a kid and there is where i came across your drawings and comics. ^^

    btw the scripts is correct but do note that since u already used para1 and para2, for future posts u need to use para3 and para4 and so on if not the script will crash.

  2. gordon
    gordon says:

    xiao pian i see. that’s one of the friday weekly staffs. i used to read friday weekly when i was a kid and there is where i came across your drawings and comics. ^^

    btw the scripts is correct but do note that since u already used para1 and para2, for future posts u need to use para3 and para4 and so on if not the script will crash.

  3. puppy52doll
    puppy52doll says:

    gordon wow, okay I’ll try to remember XD! thanks again!

    Xiaopian is a mentor to me, and like a temp father figure sometimes LOL! Man time flies o_o;;;

  4. puppy52doll
    puppy52doll says:

    gordon wow, okay I’ll try to remember XD! thanks again!

    Xiaopian is a mentor to me, and like a temp father figure sometimes LOL! Man time flies o_o;;;

  5. radiantdreamer
    radiantdreamer says:

    hey, you did that when you were in your teens? that’s pretty good! Looks like you’ve been in the profession for a while then. It looks very professional.

    You’re born in the year of the dog? Then you’re about my sister’s age then. She draws too! :)

    I like your site, so I’m gonna add it to my blog roll.

  6. radiantdreamer
    radiantdreamer says:

    hey, you did that when you were in your teens? that’s pretty good! Looks like you’ve been in the profession for a while then. It looks very professional.

    You’re born in the year of the dog? Then you’re about my sister’s age then. She draws too! :)

    I like your site, so I’m gonna add it to my blog roll.

  7. puppy52doll
    puppy52doll says:

    radientdreamer yes which is a long time ago, I’m actually born in year of the snake my mentor is the one born in year of the dog LOL

    My links page is still kinda clunky but I'll try to add U back :) I need to add gordon back too but I'm in a bind about what section to put him into o_o;>

  8. puppy52doll
    puppy52doll says:

    radientdreamer yes which is a long time ago, I’m actually born in year of the snake my mentor is the one born in year of the dog LOL

    My links page is still kinda clunky but I'll try to add U back :) I need to add gordon back too but I'm in a bind about what section to put him into o_o;>

  9. puppy52doll
    puppy52doll says:

    Isio thank you :)
    and welll that book is really embarressing LOL I do hope to dig out one of my personal favorite (art at the time still need to be improved tho) from another publication sometime :3

  10. puppy52doll
    puppy52doll says:

    Isio thank you :)
    and welll that book is really embarressing LOL I do hope to dig out one of my personal favorite (art at the time still need to be improved tho) from another publication sometime :3

  11. gordon
    gordon says:

    i sometimes see the staffs of friday weekly and i wonder is xiaopian still around? maybe he moved on to another paper.

    anyway nice effort in translating the foreword to english. must have taken u quite some time.

  12. gordon
    gordon says:

    i sometimes see the staffs of friday weekly and i wonder is xiaopian still around? maybe he moved on to another paper.

    anyway nice effort in translating the foreword to english. must have taken u quite some time.

  13. puppy52doll
    puppy52doll says:

    gordon, well xiaopian may have moved to other sections (I haven’t read fridayweekly in the longest time ^^; the translation was done quite quickly — I type quite fast, just not sure if it is grammatically sound that is all ^^

  14. puppy52doll
    puppy52doll says:

    gordon, well xiaopian may have moved to other sections (I haven’t read fridayweekly in the longest time ^^; the translation was done quite quickly — I type quite fast, just not sure if it is grammatically sound that is all ^^

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