Coming Home comic

Coming Home comic - Issue 1

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Emma Vieceli (Breaks/Life Is Strange) — ‘A Healthy Fighting Force’ - art by Emma Vieceli

“Important stories from voices we hear too little of” - Garth Ennis (writer - The Boys/Punisher)

Coming Home is a new anthology comic sharing true stories of UK military veterans’ mental health.

The stories have been devised working online with a group of veterans living with complex mental health issues, such as PTSD, Moral Injury, Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and depression.

‘Stretcher-Bearer Stan’ - art by Mike Donaldson

The process of adapting often traumatic stories into comics has been a therapeutic process for our veterans group over the last year. The work invited each veteran to develop their own narrative, and work with a professional cartoonist to realise it as a finished story.

Coming Home Issue 1 features artists Keith Page (Commando), Mike Donaldson (The Broons/The Dandy), Emma Vieceli (Breaks/Life Is Strange), Casey Raymond (Zine maker), and Clark Bint (Heavy Metal/Killtopia).

The Coming Home logo was created by Richard Starkings (Comicraft).

You can read Coming Home digitally on Comixology

coming home is ALso available from comic shops now

WALES

Cardiff Fantasy Centre - Jacobs Market, Cardiff

The Comic Guru - Cardiff

Forbidden Planet International - Cardiff

Shelf Life Books and Zines - Canton, Cardiff

SF-Collectables - Bridgend

Comix Shoppe - Swansea

england (midlands)

Close Encounters - Northampton

World’s Apart - Birmingham

Forbidden Planet International - Leicester

Page 45 - Nottingham

Forbidden Planet International - Nottingham

Forbidden Planet International - Sheffield

Forbidden Planet International - Stoke-On-Trent

Forbidden Planet International - Wolverhampton

Ground Zero - Mansfield

Narrow Escape Comics - Shipley, Yorkshire

Wakefield Comics 616 - Wakefield

The Darl Knight - Darlington (from 23rd November)

england (south west)

Paradox Comics - Poole

england (south east)

Crunch Comics - Reading

Chaos City Comics - St. Albans

NORTHERN IRELAND

Forbidden Planet International - Belfast

USA

Silver Sprocket - San Francisco

Birdcage Bottom Books - online US sales

Comic shops wanting to stock Coming Home can order copies from Diamond Comic Distributors using code SEP221929.

ian kennedy’s Coming Home Cover

Ian Kennedy - 'Coming Home' Limited Edition Giclée Archival Print (UK ONLY)

£35.00

With the kind permission of Ian Kennedy’s family, Re-Live have commissioned 50 limited edition giclée archival prints of Ian’s cover painting for Coming Home issue 1.

Ian worked with Re-Live’s veterans’ comic group to ensure his cover depicted veterans’ mental health scenes that the group felt reflected their experiences and those of other veterans. Poignantly, our cover was the final artwork Ian completed shortly before his death in February 2022, aged 89.

Each print measures 297mm x 370mm. They are printed on Platinum Etching archival paper, using UV stable pigment based archival inks by Good Art Studio, Cardiff. This limited edition of 50 archival prints are registered with ArtSure, and each print comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

All proceeds raised through the sale of these prints will support Re-Live’s charitable work with veterans living with complex mental health issues.

PLEASE NOTE. These limited edition prints are available for postage in the UK only. Please email comics@re-live.org.uk if you are outside UK to discuss postage prices.

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COMING HOME artwork EXHIBITION

To celebrate the launch of Coming Home there was an exhibition of the original artwork from the comic at Panel Gallery, Northampton, November-December 2022.

COMING HOME AT COMIC CONVENTIONS

Coming Home previewed at The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (Bowness-On-Windermere, 15th/16th October 2022). The veterans, artists and creative team behind Coming Home took part in a panel discussion about the process of making the comic, hosted by Chris Thompson.