Steve Lafler Books & T Shirts

Is it a career, or a series of really lame jobs? Stephen Beaupre (author) and Steve Lafler (cartoonist) pose this timeless question in Forty Hour Man, a hilarious saga of one working stiff's three-decade journey into the minimum wage heart of the American Dream. 248 pages.

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Cartoonist Steve Lafler presents Tranny vixen Fiona Mallratte in a hilarious new book, wherein she holds forth on "The $99.00 Drag Makeover" and getting all dolled up for Halloween. She also asks the eternal question: "Aren't superheroes just a bunch of Trannys?!"

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Culled from the archives of the blog of the same name, Self Employment for Bohemians is Lafler's swashbuckling memoir of his salad days as an indie entrapreneur, and subsequent building of a successful business. Chock full of hilarioius anecdote and nuts & bolts freelancing advice, this book is a must for anyone who's ever considered going out on their own. 102 pages.

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Steve Lafler, Cartoonist

Under my own Cat-Head Comics imprint in the 80s & 90s, I have published a stack of titles including Dog Boy, Buzzard, Mean Cat, Duck & Cover, Femme Noire, Prometheus' Gift and Bughouse.

Dog Boy aslo enjoyed a ten issue run published by Fantragraphics.

Working with Top Shelf Productions, I produced the three volume Bughouse trilogy (Bughouse, Baja and Scalawag).

Offered here are some of my current titles under my own Manx Media imprint.

Steve Lafler

Here's the graphic for the El Vocho T Shirt.

'They call it the Vocho down in Mexico
Some are kinda old and some are kinda slow
Don't matter none cause them Bugs got soul
And low gear torque that'll pull the load'

-Ballad of the Bug, my country blues tune that goes with the book.

Bughouse - Steve Lafler's signature graphic novel.

Tenor saxophone maestro, Jimmy Watts, leads his talented band of bugs from the swing era into the uncharted maelstrom of Bop. And as he and his band mates claw their way to the top of the jazz world, they must fight the temptation to be consumed by addiction to a substance known as "bug juice".

Bughouse novels from Top Shelf

Top Shelf carries the Bughouse trilogy: Bughouse, Baja and Scalawag.

El Vocho: Love at the Twilight of Oil. Diamond order code: OCT101061 EL VOCHO GN (MR)
Rosa the Latina hottie inventor and Eddie the geek artist meet in a fender bender. Tempers flare but sparks fly and they fall in love. Working together, they create the perfect clean energy motor while being tracked by goons working for big oil. Cameo appearance by Ken Kesey.

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