Someone Else's Shoes is an award-winning, experimental comic exploring homelessness.
Created using line art and printed on cardboard-effect paper, the comic is a piece of gentle protest art, designed to challenge damaging portrayals of homeless people.
The comic was Highly Commended in the Creative Conscience Awards in 2024.
Packaged inside a shoebox, this simple and predominantly wordless comic charts the journey of a man transitioning from affluent living to sleeping on the streets.
The poem inside reads:
Don't find fault with the man that limps, or stumbles down the road. Unless you have worn the shoes he wears, or carried the same load. There may be troubles within his heart, though hidden away from view. The burden he bears placed on your back may cause you to stumble too. Don't sneer at the man who is down today, unless you have felt the same blow, or felt the shame that only the fallen can know. Just walk a mile in his shoes before you criticise, shame or accuse. If just for a moment, you could find a way to see past your blinkered views. We will forever be known by the tracks we leave, our actions and the words we choose, so take the time to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
Adapted from the poem 'Judge Softly' by Mary Lathrap