This is a special-occasion comic this week. I said that the people of Japan were on my mind, and that’s true. I’ve been working on a comic for the Comics For Japan initiative that I heard about from D. J. Coffman. I finished it tonight, so here it is. I wanted to get it posted tonight so it wouldn’t be posted on April Fool’s day.

This is what the Comics for Japan site says about where to go to donate for Japan:

SECOND HARVEST JAPAN People can send supplies directly to survivors on the ground!

RED CROSS Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Relief Fund

or text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10 from your phone

I’m a big fan of the game of Go. It’s an ancient game, one you’ve probably seen, but confused with Chinese Checkers, or Pente. It was invented about 4,000 years ago in China, and is a major big deal in China, Japan, Korea, and a lot of other countries. It’s even fairly popular in America, but nothing like in the East, where people start studying it as children and become professional Go players instead of going to college. One of the things that some people were concerned about around the world was that the international Go tournaments would be upset by the disasters in Japan. Sounds crazy, but that was actually a concern for some people. But just to show how serious people are about Go, a famous game was once interrupted by the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The “Atomic Bomb Game” interrupted the game in its third day. The players actually stopped until after lunch. Then they resumed play and finished the game.

That is called absolutely indomitable spirit, let me tell you.

I will also have this picture up on my DeviantArt website.