Comics For Japan

HOW YOU’VE HELPED!

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:24:58 +0000

Above: Your donations to Second Harvest went directly to survivors on the ground in the hardest hit areas of Japan.

The “Comics For Japan” donation drive was a great success for the relief agencies we helped to promote. With 36 webcomic features participating in the event helping to spread the word about Second Harvest Japan and Red Cross, we were able to make an impact on the ground, for the survivors of the Earthquake and Tsunami who needed it the most! To all those who participated and help promote this effort, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

While it’s hard to estimate how much money we actually helped raise, here is some data that was collected along with reports back to us.

We raised around $1500 in monetary donations and or actual supplies and food for Second Harvest Japan. Collectively we’ve heard from 14 readers who sent actual supplies via the mail that included food items and blankets. (if you sent items, please report to us!) All told we sent over 11,312 unique visitors through our Second Harvest link. To see where your dollars and supplies are going, check out the great Second Harvest Blog.
For the Red Cross, there’s no way of tracking how much money we helped donate, but we did send a bunch of traffic through our links, 16,588 unique visitors through our links.
That’s 27,900 unique readers who visited these agencies through our effort. Great job everyone!

IT’S NOT OVER!!!

While the mainstream media have moved on to other big stories, the survivors in Japan still could use our help! We encourage your ongoing support to SECOND HARVEST JAPAN as they move into phase 2 of their relief efforts! Everyday they are delivering boxes of food and supplies to the people who have no homes or livelihood, and who aren’t likely to have any for the foreseeable future. Follow along with the progress in the Second Harvest relief report blog, and make a donation!

COMIC CREATORS!!! You can still do your part by reminding your readers that this effort goes on beyond the 24 hour news cycle! Share the links above every once in awhile with your readers. Whether you have an audience of 10 people or 100,000 we really have a great advantage and power to getting the word out to more people, and it has helped make an impact! THANK YOU!

eBay Art Auction for Japan!

admin — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:03:12 +0000

Dawn Griffith of Webcomics Alliance helped to put together the following 11×17 jam sketch at C2E2 (Chicago Comics Show) featuring some of the heavy hitters of webcomics! 100% of the sale of this item will go toward the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami fund!

Signed by and featuring the art of:

Randy Milholland of “Something Positive”
Danielle Corsetto of “Girls With Slingshots”
Joel Watson of “Hijinks Ensue”
Dave Willis of “Shortpacked”
James Silvani of “Darkwing Duck”
Lar DeSouza of “Least I Could Do”
Charles Paul Wilson III of “The Stuff of Legend”
Dave Reynolds of “Shadowgirls”
Alan Evans of “Rival Angels”
Glenn “GW” Fisher of “www.gwfisher.com”
W. Byron Wilkins of “1977 The Comic”
Dawn Griffin of “Zorphbert and Fred”

BID HERE NOW. (ends April 3rd, bid now!)

WEEK THREE

admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:51:00 +0000

We’re starting into WEEK THREE here, and we now have over 30 comics sharing the love for the Japan relief effort. Outstanding! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Instead of posting links as they come in, we will be updating the main “THE COMICS” list. Anyone who wants to participate, there is no deadline! All you have to do is follow the instructions on the PARTICIPATE page.

Comics who have already participated, don’t be shy! Why not post another comic? Let us know and we’ll list you again-

Week Two!

admin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:07:31 +0000

(CURLS by Carlyn Belefski)

There is no deadline for creators who want to participate in COMICS FOR JAPAN! But we would encourage you to get your comics done and out to your audiences as soon as possible. Details here!

This week we’d really like to encourage giving to SECOND HARVEST Japan. They are helping get fresh healthy food and supplies to survivors on the ground. With the news coming out about the crops and dairy there being contaminated with radiation, this may be even MORE important than ever to help 2H. Please feel free to make mention of this link http://www.2hj.org/index.php/eng_home on your comic pages, twitters and facebooks.

(note: We’re in no way affiliated with Second Harvest, we’re just a collection of comic makers from around the globe who are pinpointing the organizations who can do the most immediate help for survivors.)

WEEK TWO COMICS

WEEK ONE COMICS FOR JAPAN

admin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:03:17 +0000

Will be updating this post as links from other comics come in. If you are a partcipating webcomic and don’t see your comic link listed here, please post your link in the comments section and we’ll add it!

THANK YOU TO ALL THE WEEK ONE PARTICIPANTS!

THE COMICS

Places that helped us get the word out: (THANK YOU!)

Zoidland, by Jeff Burkholder: http://www.zoidland.com/2011/03/18/japan/
The Ouro Bros. and the Neverending Tour, by Jeremy Bentley and Jeff Burkholder: http://ourobros.com/2011/03/18/japan/

Get Sketchcards at C2E2

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:44:37 +0000

The Webcomics Alliance folks have come up with the great idea of doing live sketchcards at this weekend’s Chicago Comic Convention (C2E2) – If you stop by and donate $10 via mobile phone to the Red Cross you’ll score original art!

Here’s more from them:

Click for larger image

The Alliance will have free sketchcards to hand out to anyone who wants to do a doodle or a comic. The donator can take it home, scan it and post it wherever they can- facebook, twitter, or on their own webcomic site!

OR, if you come to our table and text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10 from your phone, you will receive a FREE combo sketchcard from Byron, Ken, and I! It’s time to GET THE WORD OUT, donate money, food, clothing, whatever you can.. These people need it, right now!

Example Comic

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:08:15 +0000

Creators, here’s a good example of a way to make a comic about the disaster and donating to the survivors of the disaster… Here’s how to participate.

Here’s how to participate.

Draw Comics For Japan!

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:59:48 +0000

Earthquakes, Tsunamis and now a Nuclear emergency, Japan is facing one of the worst catastrophes in recorded history. Entire towns have been wiped out. There’s a food shortage and people have no place to go. What can we do from so far away?

Draw comics.

Dear webcomic creators, this Friday, March 15th 2011, we’re urging you to mention the following links either in your comic or on your comic’s blog. Whether you have 10 readers or 10,000 readers, we as webcomic creators are fortunate to have an audience that we can encourage to help donate in ways that will directly aid the people of Japan.

Here are the two key places you should mention in your comic or on your comic’s blog:

http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html – This link is for monetary donations. It is a google page made by the Red Cross in Japan. The lowest people can donate is 100 yen which is roughly $2 and change.Every little bit counts.

www.2hj.org – Second Harvest is an organization in Japan where people can ship supplies that will be on the ground DIRECTLY to the people who need them. Take a look at the list of supplies at the link. You might consider gathering up a big box of supplies and having a few friends pitch in for shipping to Japan. They need raw supplies more than money at this time.

Anyone who participates in this, please comment here and leave your link or send us an email with a link to your “Comics For Japan” strip.

If you can’t make the deadline this week, we’re planning on doing a collected post of comics on every Friday. Please help!