Loxie & Zoot

Infobox comic strip
title= Loxie & Zoot


caption= Cover to the first book. Art by Stephen Crowley.
Characters (left to right): Zoot, Loxie.
author= Stephen Crowley
url= http://loxieandzoot.comicgenesis.com/
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status= weekly
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first= 2003-08-04 [http://loxieandzoot.comicgenesis.com/d/20030804.html]
last= 2006-04-26
genre= Comedy/Drama
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"Loxie & Zoot" is a webcomic by Australian artist Stephen Crowley about nudists Loxie and Zoot, co-owners of the Koala Bares Naturist Resort. The strip updated on Wednesdays and Fridays through April 26, 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.

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.

Plot

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 mayoral 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.

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 again.

3 Hour Tour…

A short 3 page "Gilligan's Island" 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.

Noodtoons

Single page vignettes focusing on various characters.

Ghost Story

A crossover 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.

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 diamond-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".

Collected Editions

*"The Koala Bares"

ee also

*Naturism

External links

* [http://loxieandzoot.comicgenesis.com/ Loxie & Zoot]
* [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/thebarepit/thebarepit/series.php The Bare Pit]
* [http://www.talkaboutcomics.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=428 Loxie & Zoot and The Bare Pit on Talk About Comics forums]
* [http://comixpedia.com/stephen_crowley_anything_but_conventional Comixpedia: Stephen Crowley: Anything but Conventional]
* [http://webcomicsreview.com/examiner/issue041108/loxieandzoot.html Webcomicsreview: The Nicest Comic On The web]
* [http://comixpedia.com/nc_17_or_17_notorious_webcartoonists_by_xaviar_xerexes Comixpedia: NC:17, or 17 Notorious Webcartoonists by Xaviar Xerexes]
* [http://www.litterartsy.info/ledgerawards/recipients_06.html Crowley Gold winner of the 2006 Ledger awards for "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition"]