Mountain Rescue: a personalized comic book gift
Their idea of relaxing is climbing a mountain. If your partner packs three kinds of trail mix and checks the weather radar for fun, here is a story where all that preparation pays off. A blizzard rolls in, a stranded hiker radios for help, and only one person has the rope, the headlamp and the calm voice to get everyone down. Their face is on every page, frost on the eyebrows, utterly determined. Add their home mountain or favorite trail and the rescue can happen somewhere they know.
Create this comicWho it is for
Ideal for hikers, climbers, ski patrollers and first responders, or anyone who deserves a proper thank-you, on a birthday, at retirement or at the end of a big season.
What can happen in the story
- 1
A distress call crackles over the radio just as your hero settles into the mountain hut with hot cocoa.
- 2
Through a howling whiteout, they rappel down an icy cliff while the wind roars WHOOOOSH around them.
- 3
Your hero carries the stranded hiker to safety as a helicopter thunders in overhead: WHUP WHUP WHUP.
How it is made
- 1. Add your hero.A clear photo, a first name and a few fun answers: their job, their catchphrase, a funny habit, an inside joke or two.
- 2. Pick a story idea.We write three Mountain Rescue story ideas from your answers. Pick one and see the cover and the first page for free.
- 3. Read it, then print it.The eBook is $7.99 and ready in about 15 minutes. Print the hardcover if you love it.
Questions about this comic
My sister really volunteers in mountain rescue. Can the story reflect her actual work?
Yes. Put her job in the hero questions and the details she would recognize in the 'anything special' field, like her team's call sign or the hut she always stops at. The story is written around them, and you can change any words in the editor that are not quite right.
Can it be heartfelt instead of action-packed?
Yes. Say in your answers that you want it heartfelt, and the story ideas focus on courage and the people who count on them, which suits a thank-you gift or a retirement. Ask for more action and you get the cliffhanger version. Either way the rescue ends well and nobody is seriously hurt.