“Dog Boy Choice Cuts & Happy Endings” Graphic Album Ships Early Summer 2023
Cat Head Comics is pleased to announce Steve Lafler’s new comics collection, Dog Boy Choice Cuts & Happy Endings for a June / July 2023 release. The 328-page oversize volume collects the best of Lafler’s pioneering 1980’s alternative comics magazine title Dog Boy, known for its undulating psychedelic twists, coupled with low-brow tropes that border on slapstick.
The date is 1983—early dawn in the alternative comics movement. Steve Lafler, bohemian cartoonist, taps into his unconscious mind and finds his inner Dog Boy: An unruly man-child equipped with a Golden Retriever head.
Reared on the incandescent comic book innovations of Jack Kirby, coming of age in the subsequent explosion of Underground Comix, Lafler sets out to chart his own inky journey.
Marked by a shattering ego-death experience behind psilocybin on the cusp of adulthood, the artist roots around in his psyche, utilizing an improvisational, unscripted cartooning method. Pumping out page after page of comics penciled in a thick non-photo blue line, he furiously swings at a vision of the simultaneity of all action, reaching for the gold ring deep inside.
Readers encounter a critique of wage slavery, plenty of strong coffee, a bit of beer guzzling, inner probings from the id to the unconscious, and a healthy dose of comedic cul-de-sacs on this cartoon roller coaster ride. Lafler’s early career improvisations soar, and at turns fall flat, but it’s well worth the coin to join him on these good natured spelunking expeditions of the heart.
Shipping to the book trade, libraries and comic shops summer 2023.
Title: Dog Boy Choice Cuts & Happy Endings
ISBN 978-1-7341087-9-8
Format: Trade Paper 8.5″ x 11″, Color cover matte, 328 pages B&W interior
Retail: $36.99 USA
LCCN: 2023902385
Publication Date: 07/10/2023
Publisher: Cat Head Comics, Santa Rosa, California
Distribution: Diamond Comic Dist., Lunar Distribution, Ingram
Order Dog Boy Choice Cuts & Happy Endings at Amazon (Note: Becomes available from Amazon on official publication date of July 10, 2023.)
Order Dog Boy Choice Cuts & Happy Endings direct from Steve Lafler / signed copy (Via email, send me your shipping address – specify Venmo or PayPal for payment, and I’ll send an invoice.)
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