Comika games part 2: hospital dinners

(This is a cheat.  We made it! )

Try it yourselves - the first person writes the speech bubbles.  The second person draws the pictures for those and writes the speech bubbles in the next panel.  Then the first person (or third person, depending how many friends you have) draws the pictures for THOSE, and then writes the speech bubbles for the NEXT panel... and so on..

simple right?

COMICS! FAIRS! GAMES! part 1

So a few weeks ago we were at the Comika spring Comiket, a grand affair, many fine folks met and gret there.  Some of them even liked to get involved with various GAMES that were on offer as well as LOAf Issue 1 (which as you all know can also be got online or at various shops around the place, if you missed the fair).  

This one here was a competition with a Mystery Prize. The drawings are by Ylva, who wrote the original story.  We invited people to come up with alternative words. Being a little on the slow side we haven't yet chosen a winner.  Opinions very welcome!

Watch this space for more of what we got up to there and at the Oxford Comics Festival on the 4th of May.

Friends galore!

Some time ago (it's practically ancient history) the Loaf wondered into Heffers, a lonely soul looking for someone to keep him company.

  Loaf cannot live by bread and books alone.  So the eager fellow sprinted forth.

As luck would have it, a brilliant lot of you came to help us make him quite nearly a million friends!  There were so many in fact that some of you started to wonder if perhaps a loaf can have TOO many of them...

Surely not!

First Oxford Children's Comic Festival! Coming Soon!

On the 4th May, LOAf will be joining the Phoenix for the first Oxford Children's Comic Festival, hosted by the Story Museum from 11am - 5pm.  Other folks definitely worth coming for include ANORAK, 2000AD, Sarah McIntyre, the Etherington Brothers, Neill Cameron and Adam Murphy amongst others.  And a chance to meet some of the Loaf crew of course!

News is that advance tickets have SOLD OUT, but there will be some on the door. Here's the poster, visit or contact the Phoenix for more information.  See you over there..

STOP PRESS: Mutant Loaf storms Madrid!

Libros Mutantes MMXIII

IV Madrid Art Book Fair

The most creative international

publications will take part in Libros

Mutantes Madrid Art Book Fair 2013

Their press release says:

From April 23rd  to 28th Libros Mutantes will hold its fourth edition as the most relevant self-publishing event of the Spain art scene. The main venue for this art book fair will be La Casa Encendida (Madrid), where a wide range of activities, workshops, lectures, concerts and going-ons will take place to celebrate the rise of independent and experimental publishing. From Friday 26th to Sunday 28th the central courtyard of La Casa Encendida will host the main event of our project: the Art Book Fair with more than 40 international publishing projects.

Look out for Loafy in the children's reading corner:

mixed feelings at the approach of grinning bread

loafing about at the fair ~*

LOAf will be at TWO WHOLE fairs this weekend!

Come visit us at the Bristol Artists Book Event, held at the Arnolfini on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st from 11.00 - 17.00.  It's totally free!  do come down, we'd love to see you.

We will also be at Comika's Spring Comiket on Saturday, held this year at Central St Martins from 11.00 - 19.00.  Entry's free to this one too, so you could even scoot to both: tuppence ha'penny for the Megabus and Loaf's your uncle! Oh if only..

Comics! Games! Badgers! Be here, or there! Or be elsewhere - but y'know, you'll be missing out...

THIS THURSDAY: make mobile buddies for Loaf