Kemi is a small town with in the Finnish Lappland a bit south from the Arctic Circle, some 25 kilometers from the Swedish border. Main employers are the big paper mills producing paper and chemical pulp, which is mainly exported. Kemi harbour is kept open even in the winter with icebreakers. The City of Kemi is nowdays known as the comics city of Finland. The city administration showed it's lack of prejudicies already in 1986 when the city annual report was published as a comics album. This was surely the first time when an official administrative report was a hit in the book stores. Since that comics has been used several times in official city reports.