LOAfman's friends at Westbury Park Primary

A few weeks ago I held a workshop with some awesome Year 5 pupils from Westbury Park Primary school in Bristol. The children were asked to create some buddies for the notorious Loafman. We started off by reading Rose Robbins' story about Loafman's discovery of comics, (which you can find one the second page of LOAf).

The children thought that like most of us, LOAfman is both brave and cowardly at the same time and therefore needs a whole array of weird and wonderful, brave and slow, scared and wimpish friends. The kids also thought that maybe he should have a girlfriend, (think it must have been all those love hearts in the final panel).

Here is the Loafman's truly excellent bunch of new pals on paper.

Thanks to the Year 5 kids for inventing such amazing dudes and for coming up with some adventures for them. Here are some snippets from the comics they made in groups. We hope to use some of these ideas and characters in LOAf 2!

Loafman, Seedo and a crazed Bird

Boxing Burger and Chocolate Clair

Loafman and Doughball Dave, also starring Boxing Burger and miss Dhonie...

Loafman, Tigress (as in tiger bread), Fred and Bob

Loafman and Jammy Joe, the Bird Air Force etc!

Cambridge LOAf launch

Having set sail with much glamour and success from Bristol at the weekend, the LOAf will be launched the fenland way (through the rushes with an eel-fork) from Cambridge on Tuesday the 27th November.  Come join us, do!

LOAf printed... time for partying

DON'T BE A SANDWICH. BE THERE! 

(though don't forget the Cambridge launch is on 27th of Nov for those more easterly)

And as promised, here is a photo of LOAf edition one in the Here Shop and Gallery, Stokes Croft Bristol. Two shops down, a few more to go! 

The perfect bed-snack preamble...

Hey Buns, in keeping with the bread-clothes theme I drew a murky comic about some takeaway slipper dough and posted it on my blog. It's a very silly story.

Here is a snippet fromit

                                                                and HERE is the rest of it...

raid the bakery

when we suggested a game of bread hats, I did not ever expect such an extravaganza of a parade - look at this collection!  Heidi Deedman, toast of the Paris catwalks; friend to the hairless; barber extraordinaire; singlehandedly starting a revolution in bio-degradable nappy-snacks. Hats off.

First Frontroom Workshop

Some pictures from the first of two workshops Loaf is running together with Melissa Castrillon and the Frontroom, Cambridge. Next one tomorrow!  Look in!

breadhead

Ha!  Lucy Graves has taken it to the next level!