Home is a short publication I made documenting the story of a pigeon fancier. 

Following a lot of research about the history and surrounding culture of homing, I began exploring the parallel ideas of home - the way the men create a home in their community, and the way their pigeons find their way back to them. 

The story is a fictional narrative, drawing upon essays, interviews and articles I have found or recorded myself.

One fancier said, 'I don't think anybody knows how they do it, something to do with magnets.'

Perhaps the pigeon's homing instinct is the same as the magnetic pull that seems to bring people back home to the North East.

Over summer I travelled across Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia to see the Guca Trumpet Festival and kept a little travel journal of comics.

Some experiments with using a comic format. One painted after seeing the northern lights with my brother, one after going to a bad party. Both painted using watercolours.