https://www.bookdepository.com/Love-on-the-Isle-of-Dogs-2020-Jude-Cowan-Montague/9781916030671
Whoosh! It's been a ride.
Going back into the past . . . and now here's the book, LOVE ON THE ISLE OF DOGS.
Pictures and stories.
This seemed impossible. Exactly what I'd been avoiding nearly all my adulthood, since my daughter was born. The closed box in my mind was supposed to stay shut. Now I was going to open it.
I had to go back in time, look at the most difficult time of my life and bring it out into the open. I decided to do it for a friend's gallery show, 'A Little Show about Depression'. What could I talk about? I was in a quandary. I would not call myself as a depressed. I knew people who explain and talk of their depression and I didn't want to lay a false claim to this word that describes something so important and crucial to their daily lives. I went to my desk, picked up my pen and ink and thought, when have I had to deal with something really big and frightening and sad? Ah. Yes, when I thought about it I realised I did have a story, one I rarely talked about. Whoosh! Once I began to draw from memory I couldn't stop the pictures and moments from my past tumbling out.
The scene of my story was set against the evocative stage of the Isle of Dogs. What a classic juxtaposition to have a whirlwind romance struggling and failing against the sounds and sweat and smells of the construction of East London Docklands during the 1990s!
The Isle of Dogs. A beautiful, abandoned, cut off land in the centre the biggest capital in Europe. Once full of industry, fallen silent, it was now being called back to life by the financiers, by the wheelers and dealers, with a new tower shining above like the eye of Sauron.
A link to the original kickstarter page - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/isleofdogs/love-on-the-isle-of-dogs-a-graphic-novel-0
