Finishing LOAfman's comics...

Thanks to big kids (or maybe little adults) Pete Shadbolt, Livvy Glatt and Sam Jones for their narrative oeuvres about the ups and downs of Being Bread.

First up, Pete Shadbolt's tale of LOAf's existential angst, "When LOAfman Felt Strange" (I have written the bits the scanner cut out- sorry Pete)

                                 (He went to America)

                                            (and just when he ...)

 The original oeuvre

The man at work

Next, a collaboration from unstoppable duo Livvy and Sam,

 "LOAfman and His Friend Giant Redwood Boy" a beautiful tale of a special friendship as strong as a tree.

Aah the end panel is my favourite, when Mama Redwood returns to the madness and deluge to restore law, order and perspective.

Last but not least, another of Sam & Livvy's collaborations, (I told you they were unstoppable)

"LOAfman goes Fishing"

Phew, that little guy is unstoppable too, isn't he? What a life he leads!

Unfortunately I don't know who drew this beast but he's pretty cool too.

The story of His LOAfness' Bristol inauguration

On a blustery evening on the 17th November, Bristol folk young and old, be-hatted and un-behatted assembled in Cafe Kino to welcome LOAf to town.

They drew some new friends...

and made masks.

                                                                

                                                              

Paula played the piano...

 and there was hurly burly and merriment.

Everyone pawed the LOAf and sighed loudly with amazement.

HA! We knew you would!

  LOAf had babies and we ate them and then we looked weird...

We gave the LOAf babies to the staff of Cafe Kino to express our huge thanks. It is no understatement to say that the staff at Kino are lovely and excellent. What diamonds! THANKS AGAIN FOR HAVING US!

 

Oh. LOAf got in a grump then and left in his new caravan.

       We didn't realise he could be such a diva. It must have been all the cinnamon. 

OUR GREAT BIG THANKS to all who came and helped to make it such a lovely evening including our contributors and bookshop stockers, Livvy for the use of her camera and photography skills, Jason from the Bloom and Curll Bookshop for encouraging us to make a speech and for bringing his many young friends and relations (sadly he left before Livvy and her camera arrived), Claire for helping with the activitites and MOST of all to JENNY HUNTING for LOAfing around with me and Becky all weekend.

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!