Find Chaffy

WIN A CHAFFY!

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:16:34 +0000

Thanks to the very kind folk at Scholastic, we had a bundle o’ Chaffies turn up at our door the other week, all safely wrapped up and glad to find a home. So we thought, lets send them back out into the world to carry on their journey, and lets do this with a whole host of contests over the coming months for your chance to win one! Not only that, but if you win you’ll get a signed copy of the Find Chaffy book, along with stickers and a poster. And we may even have some runner-up prizes too!
So, for this contest, we’d LOVE to see some Chaffy cosplay. And, while cosplay would normally suggest making a full Chaffy costume, of course we’re not expecting anyone to go that far. By cosplay we mean anything wearable, so for example you could make a Chaffy hat, a Chaffy badge, Chaffy jewellery, Chaffy glasses…who knows? As long as it features our loveable little white Chaffy, and is something wearable, then we’d love to see it!
If you want to enter, please send a photo of whatever Chaffy item you’ve made (preferably being worn) to findchaffy@yahoo.com. We’ll pick the winner in two weeks time, so thats Monday 20th September at noon (UK time), and announce it here or on Chaffy’s twitter. The winner will get a Chaffy, a signed book, posters and stickers. All entries will be posted up in a gallery on this website (as long as they’re family-friendly, so no pants or owt please!).
We look forward to seeing your Chaffy garments!

Sighting – 20/08/10 Herfordshire, UK

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:28:59 +0000

Chaffy, are those Alpacas ignoring you? How perfectly rude, don’t they know the amazing journeys you’ve been on? Where on earth did you end up this time?

Oh, a rather refined country house in rainy england! Strange place to spot Alpacas..

Not sure that’s a Chaffy…

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:10:05 +0000

If it is, someone unhook him from the gas before he deflates all around the room!
(thanks to Daryl Boyden for the sighting)

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:36:23 +0000

The Longest, Most Amazing Chaffy Journey Of All is an online comic telling the tale of one Chaffy’s ridiculously ridiculous journey through an endless array of random treats. Each panel is submitted by a different artist, so no one knows where Chaffy is going to end up next! Much though we want Chaffy to come home safely, it would be far more fun if his journey was literally endless, always being added to by new artists with new ideas!
If YOU want to join in the story and draw your own Chaffy panel for the comic, please do! We welcome all artists, just check out the details on the page.
Alternatively, if you just wanna have a read of the story so far, created by some fantastic artists, come and have a look! And keep checking back, we’ll be adding new panels as and when they come in!

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:49:41 +0000

I am incredibly proud to say that my first children’s book, Find Chaffy, is now on sale. Published by Scholastic books, it’s available in all good bookshops, all across the UK (or wherever you normally buy books online). Other countries will follow soon, but if you want to order it online now then best do so from HERE, since they have free worldwide delivery! Yay!

Find Chaffy is a cute, silly, colourful adventure through a score of picture searches as you try to find all the Chaffies on their epic journey! It’s for all ages, and (hopefully) will take you quite a while to finish. Scholastic were incredible to work with and essentially let me draw whatever stupid things were in my head, so some of the things in the book are pretty random.

Here’s Chaffy checking out some of the book..

If you followed my blog at the time, you’ll know this was quite a big deal to get done in time for its deadline. Most of the work was done in just over two months around christmas last year, a frantic push to get ten highly-detailed picture searches (drawn at A2 size then shrunk) and the 28 story pages finished. Then I could tell you about the last minute dramas but hey, thats just part of the fun innit?

So that’s part of the reason I’m so proud of this book. It was the hardest I’ve worked, for probably the biggest project I’ve ever done. And to see Chaffy now reaching out to audiences around the world in this beautifully printed book, is a real buzz.
Lastly, dad passed away the very day after i finished work on Find Chaffy. So this book is dedicated to him.

So please, go and pick up a copy (its usually around a fiver or less, depending where you look) and enjoy the heck out of it! The Find Chaffy search is going big-league, and all your support is massively appreciated!

Find Chaffy book two is GO!

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:35:19 +0000

This week is a really big deal for me, with the release of Find Chaffy on thursday (more about that on the day). But a little while back i started talking with Scholastic about ideas for book two, and i’m very pleased to announce the contracts are signed and we are go for a sequel! Bodes well, to be doing it before book one’s released?
So, i’ll be retreating back into official hermit status to get it all done by christmas, since we’re looking to release it next year. I won’t lie, this morning was my first official day drawing the first picture search pages and i’ve been procrastinating like mad. The photo above is how the book looks at the moment (ie ROUGH). Looking back at the first book, and how much went into it, i feel like i’m at the very bottom of a very big mountain.
But i’m proper excited to be starting a new book for Chaffy. And may i just say, we’ve gone a little mad on this one. It’s going to be INSANE ^_^

Sighting – 29/07/10 Tatooine

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:07:45 +0000

Sorry for the lack of updates recently, there’s been so much going on about the release of the book next week! (just a heads up – people outside of UK, if you want to preorder a copy before its published in your country, you can get it with FREE DELIVERY right HERE)

In the meantime here’s a great sighting from Stefan Davenport of Chaffy versus the Empire! See more of the photos HERE ^_^

There are so many Chaffies out in the world, yet we’re getting low on sightings! If YOU’VE found a Chaffy, please do send us pics in! We’re worried about the little blighters!

Chaffy takes USA!

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:49:55 +0000

THANK YOU to Jane Davies for this wonderful piece of Chaffy art, as giant Chaffy welcomes you onto the highway!
Incidentally, I heard two massive pieces of news about the Find Chaffy book last night, which i can hopefully reveal very very soon. Also, we’re going to be needing your artistic skills. MORE SOON!

Chaffy art by Jessica Sherman

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:29:17 +0000

Thank you to Jessica Sherman (more of her work here) for this brilliant piece of Chaffy art!
(don’t have nightmares, i’m sure Chaffy’s safe)

Sighting – 16/06/20 California, USA

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:03:19 +0000

Here’s a Chaffy spotted gearing up for rollerskating, thanks to Lisa for this awesome sighting!