Loxie & Zoot
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Loxie & Zoot is a webcomic
by Australia
n artist Stephen Crowley about nudists Loxie and Zoot, co-owners of the Koala
Bare
s Naturist Resort
. The strip updated on Wednesdays and Fridays through 26 April 2006. Loxie & Zoot is perhaps best noted as the only nudist-oriented comic strip
.
In February 2006, Crowley launched a spin-off
strip, The Bare Pit, which is hosted at Webcomics Nation
.
al campaign
. This is interpreted by the media as an attack on Tyler, who had just moments prior made a pledge to have the resort closed down.
Loxie and Zoot decide to hold an open day, inviting the whole town and the media to it. Tex Tyler goes in undercover in a nude suit as "Noodie Sven" to try to sabotage the event.
Television reporter Kylie steps into The Koala Bay Bares and is reminded of her brutish past experience with nakedness - being blatantly taunted when caught skinny dipping
in a creek. However, with the help of Loxie and a few others, she is able to overcome her fears.
While at the Bay Bares, Tex (aka Sven), is pulled into various activities such as body painting, until he finally secludes himself to set fire to the resort. A smart emu
named Oscar and Tex's wife, Alice, are able to stop him before he can cause damage. Alice ends up taking a liking to nudism and becomes a nudist herself; being naked while cleaning the house, etc. Tex, ever stubborn, does not approve.
The very next day, Frank invites another girl over, only to have Andy caught once again by Willow, realizing what her friend was getting into. Andy decides to redeem his own trust by sabotaging Frank's plan. Andy gets shots of Frank naked, rather than the girls he invites over, then arranges for that tape to be shown school-wide (unbeknownst to Frank). Frank gets quite embarrassed when naked images of himself are being broadcast on every screen in the school, running off, never to tape pornography
again.
parody. Herb, Zoot, Loxie, Willow, Fred, Janet, and Mungo cast off on The Manilow for a three hour tour, with Herb at the wheel. When Herb starts to play his accordion
, known for its notorious bad luck, they end up stranded on an island... in Zoot's imagination as he writes the entire story from his computer.
story featuring Jenny Everywhere
. Shortly after Jenny Everywhere arrives at the Koala Bares, a ghost
begins harassing the campers. It doesn't take long for the gang to realise that it's just Tex Tyler in disguise, but they decide to really scare him off, instead of just taking off the sheet he wears. So the fellow attendees of the Bay Bares resort cover themselves in talcum powder and beat Tex at his own game. Not soon after, Jenny disappears into the night.
-encrusted golfing trophy. In the meantime, they don't know that federal police officers John and Belinda have gone undercover at the Bares, just in case such a thing might happen.
Willow listens to her favorite radio hosts, Jay and Jo-Jo, but becomes infuriated when they mock nudism with sexual and lewd overtones. She even goes as far to call the station and "accidentally" throw Cathy's cell phone into the pool with anger when they make fun of her nakedness. Willow creates a petition to boycott Jay and Jo-Jo's advertisers. Later, she is shocked to find not only that Jay and Jo-Jo are not serious about the things they said about nudism and how they're paid to say them, but also that they are nudists themselves.
Soon, Tex is left completely dumbfounded when he finds that his trophy has been stolen from his wall safe. He immediately places blame on the nudists, and orders the police to go investigate. Local police officers Tina and Sarge go undercover in the Koala Bay Bares to seek potential leads. Mass confusion arises when Loxie and Zoot create a plastic replica of the valuable trophy as a prize for the miniature golf tournament, and no one can distinguish the two. A chase ensues when Daria and Mac take off with what they think is the real trophy, when in their getaway car, they realise that they've taken the replica. Tex finally gets his trophy back, and must again don his "Nudie Sven" costume as what Loxie calls "community service".
Webcomic
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by Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n artist Stephen Crowley about nudists Loxie and Zoot, co-owners of the Koala
Koala
The koala is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae....
Bare
Nudity
Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing. The wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic. The amount of clothing worn depends on functional considerations and social considerations...
s Naturist Resort
Resort
A resort is a place used for relaxation or recreation, attracting visitors for holidays or vacations. Resorts are places, towns or sometimes commercial establishment operated by a single company....
. The strip updated on Wednesdays and Fridays through 26 April 2006. Loxie & Zoot is perhaps best noted as the only nudist-oriented comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
.
In February 2006, Crowley launched a spin-off
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...
strip, The Bare Pit, which is hosted at Webcomics Nation
Webcomics Nation
Webcomics Nation is a webcomic hosting and automation service launched on July 29, 2005 by Joey Manley, publisher of the subscription webcomic site Modern Tales. It is a service designed for online cartoonists. Webcomics Nation is not a spinoff of Modern Tales like Graphic Smash, serializer, and...
.
Tagline
A comic about nudists? Well... yeah! 'Cos nudists have adventures too, y'know. Loxie and Zoot just want to have fun in the sun... au naturel of course... but not if their arch-foe Tex Tyler and other prudes have a say in it.
The Koala Bares
The series starts with Zoot going into town to buy some manure for the garden. He has once again forgotten to get dressed first. After finally noticing at the check out line, he hastily pays and runs out and right into Tex Tyler, who is doing a television interview for his mayorMayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
al campaign
Political campaign
A political campaign is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making process within a specific group. In democracies, political campaigns often refer to electoral campaigns, wherein representatives are chosen or referendums are decided...
. This is interpreted by the media as an attack on Tyler, who had just moments prior made a pledge to have the resort closed down.
Loxie and Zoot decide to hold an open day, inviting the whole town and the media to it. Tex Tyler goes in undercover in a nude suit as "Noodie Sven" to try to sabotage the event.
Television reporter Kylie steps into The Koala Bay Bares and is reminded of her brutish past experience with nakedness - being blatantly taunted when caught skinny dipping
Skinny dipping
Nude swimming, colloquially called skinny dipping, is a term used to describe swimming naked.-Etymology:The term skinny dip, first recorded in English in the 1950s, includes the somewhat archaic word skinny, known since 1573, meaning "having to do with skin", as it exposed the naked...
in a creek. However, with the help of Loxie and a few others, she is able to overcome her fears.
While at the Bay Bares, Tex (aka Sven), is pulled into various activities such as body painting, until he finally secludes himself to set fire to the resort. A smart emu
Emu
The Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the largest bird native to Australia and the only extant member of the genus Dromaius. It is the second-largest extant bird in the world by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich. There are three subspecies of Emus in Australia...
named Oscar and Tex's wife, Alice, are able to stop him before he can cause damage. Alice ends up taking a liking to nudism and becomes a nudist herself; being naked while cleaning the house, etc. Tex, ever stubborn, does not approve.
Frank.cam
A student named Frank in one of Willow's classes invites her over to his house for some skinny dipping under the pretense of an interview for a promotional video. He has his buddy Andy video tape it so he can sell it on his "Frank.com" website. However, when Andy falls from the upper-story window which he was using to videotape, Willow leaves in a huff, never wanting to talk to Andy again.The very next day, Frank invites another girl over, only to have Andy caught once again by Willow, realizing what her friend was getting into. Andy decides to redeem his own trust by sabotaging Frank's plan. Andy gets shots of Frank naked, rather than the girls he invites over, then arranges for that tape to be shown school-wide (unbeknownst to Frank). Frank gets quite embarrassed when naked images of himself are being broadcast on every screen in the school, running off, never to tape pornography
Pornography
Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...
again.
3 Hour Tour…
A short 3 page Gilligan's IslandGilligan's Island
Gilligan's Island is an American television series created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz and originally produced by United Artists Television. The situation comedy series featured Bob Denver; Alan Hale, Jr.; Jim Backus; Natalie Schafer; Tina Louise; Russell Johnson; and Dawn Wells. It aired for...
parody. Herb, Zoot, Loxie, Willow, Fred, Janet, and Mungo cast off on The Manilow for a three hour tour, with Herb at the wheel. When Herb starts to play his accordion
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
, known for its notorious bad luck, they end up stranded on an island... in Zoot's imagination as he writes the entire story from his computer.
Ghost Story
A crossoverFictional crossover
A fictional crossover is the placement of two or more otherwise discrete fictional characters, settings, or universes into the context of a single story. They can arise from legal agreements between the relevant copyright holders, or because of unauthorized efforts by fans, or even amid common...
story featuring Jenny Everywhere
Jenny Everywhere
Jenny Everywhere aka "The Shifter" is an open source, public domain character. She was specifically created to be as such, when her creators could not find any other truly open source, public domain characters....
. Shortly after Jenny Everywhere arrives at the Koala Bares, a ghost
Ghost
In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to...
begins harassing the campers. It doesn't take long for the gang to realise that it's just Tex Tyler in disguise, but they decide to really scare him off, instead of just taking off the sheet he wears. So the fellow attendees of the Bay Bares resort cover themselves in talcum powder and beat Tex at his own game. Not soon after, Jenny disappears into the night.
It's A Nood, Nood, Nood, Nood World!
Lighthearted jewel thieves Daria and Mac travel to the Koala Bay Bares, and eventually gain the intention to steal Tex Tyler's valuable diamondDiamond
In mineralogy, diamond is an allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice. Diamond is less stable than graphite, but the conversion rate from diamond to graphite is negligible at ambient conditions...
-encrusted golfing trophy. In the meantime, they don't know that federal police officers John and Belinda have gone undercover at the Bares, just in case such a thing might happen.
Willow listens to her favorite radio hosts, Jay and Jo-Jo, but becomes infuriated when they mock nudism with sexual and lewd overtones. She even goes as far to call the station and "accidentally" throw Cathy's cell phone into the pool with anger when they make fun of her nakedness. Willow creates a petition to boycott Jay and Jo-Jo's advertisers. Later, she is shocked to find not only that Jay and Jo-Jo are not serious about the things they said about nudism and how they're paid to say them, but also that they are nudists themselves.
Soon, Tex is left completely dumbfounded when he finds that his trophy has been stolen from his wall safe. He immediately places blame on the nudists, and orders the police to go investigate. Local police officers Tina and Sarge go undercover in the Koala Bay Bares to seek potential leads. Mass confusion arises when Loxie and Zoot create a plastic replica of the valuable trophy as a prize for the miniature golf tournament, and no one can distinguish the two. A chase ensues when Daria and Mac take off with what they think is the real trophy, when in their getaway car, they realise that they've taken the replica. Tex finally gets his trophy back, and must again don his "Nudie Sven" costume as what Loxie calls "community service".
External links
- Loxie & Zoot
- The Bare Pit
- Loxie & Zoot and The Bare Pit on Talk About Comics forums
- Comixpedia: Stephen Crowley: Anything but Conventional
- Webcomicsreview: The Nicest Comic On The web
- Comixpedia: NC:17, or 17 Notorious Webcartoonists by Xaviar Xerexes
- Crowley Gold winner of the 2006 Ledger awards for "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition"