2011 I was in the middle of a weekly published #comics correspondence with a Japanese #mangaka, Matsuoka Waka, when the #Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster shocked the world.

Despite all the chaos, we decided to keep our exchange going. It was remarkable to watch Matsuoka-san’s cute manga characters pack their emergency backpacks to flee from radiation.

I am relieved beyond words that this weekend, the last German nuclear power plant went off the grid.

This I drew days after the catastrophe: