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#032 a tribute to Takemiya Masaki
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<2010-01-24>
Now there is the option to comment directly on strips, related art and guest art, so feel free to drop your observations and ideas!
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<2010-01-23>
guest art section works again! for all those that haven't submitted anything, you are welcome to do so! If you have send me art in the past few months and it isn't in the gallery, please send it again, I might have lost it ^^'
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<2010-01-23>
added a new button, linking to my DeviantArt gallery - for all those curious what I draw besides this webcomic :)
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<2009-12-09>
Website undergoing major rework. Related artwork and Guest art sections have been relaunched in what I hope is a more user-friendly appearance. Stay tuned for more :)
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<2009-01-09>
FOUR new related artworks!
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<2009-01-03>
Hey guys, check out the Empty triangle tournament.
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<2008-05-29>
Check out the new related artwork. Great things are to come ;)
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The story of the #032 is so wonderful it's almost hard to believe..
Three months ago the Austrian go association president mailed me telling me that there will be a master course in Vienna for young strong players, organized by Kobayashi Chizu 5p, and that Takemiya Masaki 9p will come and teach there. I could not believe my eyes - Takemiya-sensei is my favorite player, I have seen over 250 of his games now... He was further asking me to draw a comic to that occasion which I agreed on happily; I had an idea almost instantly.
But I got so busy with other things that I never found the time to put it on paper, so the day of the masters course came and I still didn't have anything. Right after I arrived I grabbed a pencil and started to draw - Takemiya-sensei arrived soon so I could draw him pretty fast :)
The president liked the picture (so did Takemiya-sensei, which made me happy beyond measure) and came up with the idea of doing t-shirts for the pros, but it was Saturday and there was no way they could be printed until the course ended. Just the thought of Takemiya-sensei possessing something I created was incredible... I just drew the shirts in one long sleepless night myself, delivered them along with the picture and thought that's it - it wasn't.
Not only that the organizers awarded me with a set of slate and shell stones (I still can't believe it; there has to be some kind of law against weak players like me possessing those awesome things °_°) but the pros were really pleased with the t-shirts and gave me a fan with their signatures on it...
This strip is hanging in the Viennese go club "GO7" now, and I hope it will remind those people who go there regularly on the special event they had the opportunity to be part of - I learned more than I did in the whole year I am playing, and not only about go. I found my lost motivation again and gained the will to continue - and most of all I rediscovered my joy in the game. Thank you :)
For all the curious ones, here is one pic of the stones, and another one. ...and this is the signed fan I got and here's a pic of an unfinished t-shirt.
I will keep these short again, I promise ;)