Lenny Henry's graphic novel

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Or, "The Quest For The Big Woof". It came out around about 1991, and my parents got it for me as a Christmas present. I think it may have been related to Comic Relief somehow. It was at least partially written by Lenny Henry, illustrated by a fairly big name in British comics, with a foreword by someone equally famous, but I forget who they both were. The book started with Lenny Henry hitting writer's block and trying to come up with new material. Then God visits him and they sort of go on a kind of adventure, zapping to various parts of the world (including South Africa at one point), and the whole book sort of turns into a kind of autobio thing, centering around the death of Henry's father. Anyway, does anyone else remember this? I seem to be the only person who has ever read it.

Chriddof (Chriddof), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve Parkhouse drew it.

Vic Fluro, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it better or worse than Alexei Sayle's graphic novel?

Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

e.g. http://solo2.abac.com/themole/alexi_stuck_in_tube.jpg

Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't buy the Big Woof once, whereas I didn't buy Geoffrey The Tube Etc more than ten times. While it was on offer in a second hand bookshop.

Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if it was better or worse than Sayle's as I haven't read that one. I remember enjoying it a lot when I was 12, but I was young and easily pleased.

One genuinely funny thing about The Big Woof that I just remembered - in the foreword, whoever wrote that bit says at one point something like "Please, God, not another five years of newspaper articles with headlines like "Zap! Pow! Blam! Comics Aren't For Kids Anymore!". I couldn't take it." It's now well over five years since that was published and you still get newspaper articles doing that...

Chriddof (Chriddof), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)


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