This is out in comic shops today. It's an anthology comic to aid the PTSD needs of the survivors of the Grenfell Tower Fire. I think it's well worth supporting.
Last year there was an anthology of prose shorts performing a similar function, called 24 Stories. This is twenty-four comics, half drawn from professionals we curated, and half from open submissions. Each features no more than 24 panels.
There's a lot more information on the site, but it's in all your comic shops now. It's in book shops shortly – Amazon has it for a week's time, so you can pre-order from a standard book shop. All proceeds goes to Trauma Response Network.
Contributors? They include... Al Ewing, Alan Moore, Alex de Campi, Antony Johnston, Caspar Wijngaard, Dan Watters, Dilraj Mann, Doug Braithwaite, Gavin Mitchell, Laurie Penny, Leigh Alexander, Lizz Lunney, Melinda Gebbie, Paul Cornell, Rachael Smith, Ram V, Robin Hoelzemann, Ro Stein, Sara Kenney, Sarah Gordon, Ted Brandt, Tom Humberstone and more. Tula Lotay provided the cover. Dee Cunniffe did the design.As well as the 24 comics, I provide an introduction, in a collaboration with my old friend Sean Azzopardi.
There's a launch party on December 6th, betwee 7 and 9pm, at GOSH in London. Yes, that's the same evening as my DIE signing at Forbidden Planet. I'm having a busy night.
It's tricky to write about. I write about what it means to me, I make it about me. I write about Grenfell, and anger overpowers everything, and while that's correct, this is not a book that's primarily about anger. It's about hope and helping one another. Choosing the material was definitely one of the hardest things about it – it's for a PTSD charity. By definition, we don't want material that can be triggering. That isn't to say it doesn't include some material that's powerful and angry – but it's precisely aimed. It's also a true anthology, with us trying to capture the variety in the comics community in style and approach.
Everyone has done amazing work in it, and I hope you support it. It's a hell of a thing.
