About a decade ago (blimey) I started work on a project with Helen Reid at LCI*. Riffing on Stanley Spencer's great unfinished 'Christ In The Wilderness' series, what emerged was a 64-page comic - it became the first of a trilogy of publications that my good friend Simon astutely described as a love letter to Leeds.
In the book, the nameless protagonist holes up in an abandoned office space on the outskirts of the city, where all the narrative stuff happens.
The decaying carcass of that building (the old Southpoint block which - ironically - once housed the councils environmental health team) became more than a location and ended up functioning like a significant character in the story.
It occupies a weirdly iconic place in the Leeds skyline, but now it's coming down.
It's amazing that it's been left standing for so long, but I'll be very sad to see it go.
Meanwhile though, the comic has since been republished by Valley Press and you can bag a copy of the here from the OK Comics website :)
*Leeds Church Institute
