The Blaggers #1
This is the first in a series of cartoon strips featuring The Blaggers. Click here to read more about them, and click here to read about the artist Gabrielle Nowicki.
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Category: The Blaggers
Meet The Blaggers
Who are The Blaggers?
Here they are: (Click on the Blaggers for a larger image)
Created by Derec Jones and Gabrielle Nowicki - Illustrated by Gabrielle Nowicki
The Blaggers haven’t got a busy bone between them. They are all always on the make, avoiding any form of effort except when they think they can get something for ‘nothing’. It’s a shame, if they put as much energy into real work they’d all be millionaires.
The Blaggers’ lives revolve around the Blaggers Bookshop, a shabby excuse for a business that just enough people mistake for a charming family business to make it viable.
Here’s a brief introduction to The Blaggers:
Betsy is a librarian, she’s always taking days off and pretending to help her husband in the bookshop - hiding when people pass by.
Brian - Betsy’s husband - runs the bookshop, he is struggling himself but likes to take advantage of authors and small publishers - always late paying, constantly being hassled by suppliers and trying to sell review copies and freebies at inflated prices.
Belinda is the teenage daughter of Betsy and Brian, all she wants to do is read celebrity gossip and bunk off school.
Barry is Betsy and Brian’s early teenage son - still learning the Blagging trade but shows great promise.
Beowulf is Brian’s cousin from the dubious side of the family - a pretentious poet and painter. He’s unemployed and hangs about in the bookshop, blagging whatever he can.
Brenda is Brian’s mother and grandmother to Belinda and Barry. She is very thrifty and is obsessed with cutting coupons and likes to garner sympathy by playing on her age.
Bert- Brian’s father and the original Master Blagger - has had a job on the council arts promotion dept for 40 years and is adept at avoiding any real work. He spends most of his time finding and organising free junkets and collecting ‘samples’ of writer’s and artists’ work which he then sells under the counter in the bookshop.
Here are some definitions from the Urban dictionary that might go some way to explaining their outlook on life.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blag
