A 47-year-old author who contemplated suicide after losing three of his closest family members and later struggled with symptoms of long Covid has said writing children’s comic books has “saved (his) life” and hopes to share the message “you can still be a hero without being able to fly”. Kevin Green said he grew up not knowing his dad, however, he formed extremely close bonds with his mum, Eunice, his grandma, Irene, and his grandad, Arthur, and spent the majority of his childhood living at his grandparents’ house.
When Kevin was 13, his grandad, aged 65, passed away, and just one year later his mother, aged 32, died after being diagnosed with breast cancer – which had spread to her bones and left her bedridden. Kevin said he “never cried” and tried to remain positive in the following years, working in various roles of employment, however, after his grandma passed away, aged 88, in January 2021, he experienced waves of depression and contemplated suicide.
On top of this, Kevin, who lives in Tipton in the West Midlands, was hospitalised with Covid in the summer of 2022 and now struggles with extreme exhaustion, muscle aches, and “brain fog”. After stumbling across a comic book writing website in November 2022, Kevin found his new “lifesaving” passion and has since released five children’s comic books, including ‘Raiders of the Lost Bone’ and ‘The Weird & Wonderful World of Jack Panache’, by working in collaboration with various charities and organisations – and he now has plans to write a detective-inspired novel.
