Steve Lafler Graphic Novels

HERE’S A FEW of my best works, get them from Amazon via these links.

Death Plays a Mean Harmonica $12.99 graphic novel, 144 pages (2021)
Gertie and Rex get a wild hair and relocate to Oaxaca! Upon arrival in this cultural hub of southern Mexico, our intrepid migrants meet Eduardo, the crafty 1000-year-old Zapotec vampire who prefers chicken blood, El Rey Pelón (the skinny pot-bellied fungus who drives a taxi) and of course Death, who plays a mean harmonica. Yup, this is Steve’s fictionalized account of living in Oaxaca 2007 – 2016.

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BugHouse From the Top: The Complete BugHouse $34.00
trade paper graphic novel, 408 pages (2022)
Tenor saxophone maestro Jimmy Watts leads his talented band of bugs from the swing era into the uncharted maelstrom of Bebop. As he and his bandmates claw their way to the top of the jazz world, they must fight the temptation to be consumed by addiction to the substance known as “Bug Juice”.

Lafler doesn’t back away from the horrors of addiction in creating BugHouse, but the artist’s real game is depicting the joy of music in the language of comics, with his signature fluid brushwork.

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Dog Boy Choice Cuts & Happy Endings $36.99 Oversize trade paper graphic novel, 328 pages (2023)
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. 

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1956 Book One $9.95
1956 Movie Star $12.99 / two graphic novelas, over 100 pages of comics (2001-2002)
This “what if” take on mid-century Manhattan is the jolly conceit of cartoonist Steve Lafler in 1956 Movie Star—enjoy as you lean into that transcendent Coltrane solo over a martini just past midnight in New York City, smack in the center of 1956.

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Rots of Rove,

STEVE LAFLER