Flowers wilt and the grapes get eaten. A comic with them in it, with their face, their stubbornness and the nurse they've already befriended, is something to read on the ward and keep. Put them on the cast from a photo and write the adventure they'd want, at whatever rating suits them.
Write the adventure around them: the patient who is secretly the hospital's night detective, the grandad whose plaster cast is a suit of armour. Everyone for a kid in a ward; Teen or Mature for someone who wants their own jokes.
Painted Graphic Novel for something warm to look at for a long time; Marcinelle Romp for a laugh; Storybook Gouache for a child's bed.
Add a photo to their model sheet, with their permission, and they're drawn in the look from it, along with the visitors, the dog and the nurse who should be in it.
Issue #1 is written and drawn around them. Review the panels, ask for another take on any that miss, and download it, or share it by link straight to the bed.
Press start and the premise lands in the box of a new comic with its look already picked. Change every word, or the look, before anything is drawn.
A grandad stuck in a hospital bed with a broken hip decides the ward is a becalmed ship, the nurses its crew and the bedside monitor a compass, and every issue is one night's voyage out through the window.
In the Painted Graphic Novel look
Start with this ideaA girl with a plaster cast on her leg can't play for six weeks, so her stuffed toys form a team of their own and report back from every match she misses.
In the Storybook Gouache look
Start with this ideaOr in any of the twenty-eight. A comic picks one look on its second step, and every panel of every issue keeps it.
Describe it on the board, from the ward to the view from the window to the vending machine, and it's drawn in the look. The people in it are drawn from photos only with their permission.
A finished issue downloads as a narrated video with music, or as its panels in a zip with the captions, and you can share it by link, so it reads on a phone from the bed.
Yes. Give the writer another idea in the comic desk's ideas box and the next issue is drawn with the same cast, on whatever schedule you set, until they're home.