With the publication of Doggie Style: The Complete Dog Boy this summer, I’ve executed two painting commissions that include the Dog Boy character. First I painted Dog Boy playing guitar with a Dancing Cat, then I put Dog Boy in a jazz scenario blowing tenor sax with the mysterious Benb.
I was on a bit of a roll, so I executed a third painting of Dog Boy with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards just for fun.
Steve Lafler
This is the last chance to get a copy of my new Dog Boy book with a signed sketch on the title page.
I’ve been in the U.S. this summer promoting my new collection Doggie Style: The Complete Dog Boy. I’m just about to head back to Oaxaca, Mexico (where I’ve hung my hat for the past several years.)
I have a dozen copies of my deluxe 488 page Dog book left, and I’m looking to find a home for them before I head south. The hardcover goes for $50 and the paper back is $30, including postage & packaging.
I’m offering these last few copies with an original signed sketch on the title page.
Send me an email to order your copy.
Please specify hardcover or softcover. I will bill you via Paypal and ship upon payment.
These darn books are too heavy to haul to Oaxaca, and they’d cost a fortune to ship to or from Mexico, so I’m hoping to find a few folks to throw me a bone and take ’em off my hands.
Thanks for your interest!
Steve Lafler
The book will be available as a print-on-demand item from CO2 Comics after this, but would not include a sketch.
More Shaggy Dog Facts:
The frisky dog-headed lad was introduced in my title Guts #3 in 1982. Subsequently, I produced seven issues of Dog Boy on my Cat-Head Comics imprint. Dog Boy was then picked up by Fantagraphics for a ten issue run.
I worked furiously over a six year stretch on Dog Boy in a classic brush and ink style, mixing influences from Will Eisner, Robert Crumb and Jack Kirby into my own brand of bombastic storytelling.
My idea was to freely improvise every working moment, getting fresh inspiration on the page. At times I produced spectacular, even transcendental work, while other pages simply found a beer-guzzling Dog Boy chasing cars and biting police officers.
From the introduction by Stephen Beaupre:
“If you are holding this book, you have already won the lottery. You are a champ. You drink for free. This is Dog Boy! These stories include enough active ingredient to make your knees wobble. This is not cutesy test-marketed juvenilia sucking up for a development deal.”
Put on your rock & roll shoes and join me Thursday July 25 at San Francisco’s Mercury Cafe (201 Octavia St.) to kick off Doggie Style: The Complete Dog Boy.
Doggie Style is a 488 page compendium on the CO2 imprint collecting my seminal indy/alt comics title Dog Boy from the 80s. 
We’ll kick things off at 7:00 p.m. with a butt-kickin’ set from The Dick Nixon Experience, my country punk band with my old pal Scotty Hoover.
I’ll be signing books at the set break, and you can enjoy beer, wine, coffee and tasty cafe fare at the Mercury. We’ll them proceed to kick out the jams with a second set. Hope to see you there!
I’m happy to report that most of the comix I’ve published in my three decade plus career is handily available!
You are just a click away from enjoying my wildly singular, celebratory long graphic narratives. I invite you to my lush, freakin’ fantastic world. Thanks for droppin’ by!
love,
Steve
Doggie Style: The Complete Dog Boy
The Complete Dog Boy is my brand new title from CO2. You can order this 488 page compendium of my seminal ’80s indie title in paperback for $29.99 here.
The hardcover Doggie Style is available here at $49.99.
My be-bop jazz opus Bughouse was originally published by Top Shelf as a series of three graphic novels. CO2 has collected this thrilling insect noir opus into one 400 page plus volume. The paperback Menage a Bughouse is available here.
The collected Menage a Bughouse hardcover is available here.
My other graphic novels such as 40 Hour Man (with writer Stephen Beaupre) and El Vocho are available here.
I’m now hard at work on a new graphic novel about expats living in Oaxaca, Mexico. I’ve lived there for six years so I guess I’m ready to lampoon my own life.
Please consider buying these wonderful books so I can keep slinging ink!
Indy comics legend Steve Lafler has published a 488 page collection of his seminal alternative comic book, Dog Boy. The frisky dog-headed lad was introduced in Lafler’s title Guts #3 in 1982. Subsequently, the artist published seven issues of Dog Boy on his Cat-Head Comics imprint. Dog Boy was then picked up by Fantagraphics for a ten issue run.
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Lafler worked furiously over a six year stretch on Dog Boy in his classic brush and ink style, mixing influences from Will Eisner, Robert Crumb and Jack Kirby into his own brand of bombastic storytelling.
“My idea was to freely improvise every working moment, getting fresh inspiration on the page. At times I produced spectacular, even transcendental work, while other pages simply found a beer-guzzling Dog Boy chasing cars and biting police officers” reports Lafler.
From the introduction by Stephen Beaupre:
“If you are holding this book, you have already won the lottery. You are a champ. You drink for free. This is Dog Boy! These stories include enough active ingredient to make your knees wobble. This is not cutesy test-marketed juvenilia sucking up for a development deal.”
Lafler presents his new collection to the public with a publishing bash at San Francisco’s Mercury Cafe (201 Octavia St.) July 25 at 7:00 p.m. Both paperback and hardbound editions of Doggie Style will be on hand for signing. Entertainment will be provided by The Dick Nixon Experience, Lafler’s own country punk band.
Doggie Style is available as a print-on-demand book from CO2 of Philadelphia, the brain-child of comic industry veterans Gerry Giovinco and Bill Cucinotta. Lafler has launched a Kickstarter campaign to generate funds for a modest print run for the book launch event at the Mercury Cafe.
Further information, steve.lafler@gmail.com (503) 213-3671
Doggie Style: The Complete Dog Boy
488 pages, 8.5” x 11”, paperback $29.99, Hard cover $49.99.
Kickstarter Campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stevelafler/doggie-style-the-complete-dog-boy
Twitter: @SteveLafler
I just finished a batch of bugs and other animals of the San Francisco Bay Area for the This Land is your Land summer science camps for kids.
I put some of the pencil art for this job in my last post. The art director had me “cute-up” some of the roughs. The bee, for example, got the point removed from it’s tail for a more rounded, friendly look.
Steve Lafler
Here’s a bookcover I recently completed for Anarchists in the Boardroom, by Liam Barrington-Bush.
This art shows the job as I handed it in — the publisher has made some minor changes, but this is the basic concept.
They are running a crowdfunding campaign for the book here.
Steve Lafler
Dog Boy is the seminal alternative comics series that I published in the 1980s. I produced seven issues under my own Cat-Head Comics imprint before going on to produce another ten issues with Fantagraphics. The entire run of Dog Boy is being serialized at CO2.
These are free-wheeling, high octane graphic narratives. I was in my mid 20s, ecstatic to be slinging ink and publishing in the nascent alternative comics market. I produced lush comics pages, with vigorous blue pencil layouts & finished in a classic brush and ink style, improvising as I worked.
I’m proud to announce that I’m making 12 pages of original Dog Boy art available to collectors. All pages are from Dog Boy #7 from 1987. These 11″ x 17″ works are being put on auction for the first time on Ebay. I’m placing one page per week up per auction at a starting bid of $250. The first page is reproduced here. I’ll post a link to each auction at this site on a weekly basis.
Here is a link to the first auction.
I’ve produced a video “Dogumentary” covering the history of Dog Boy and the art auction here.
Steve Lafler
This month (December 2012) I did a nifty cover for a collection of fiction by Chicago writer Ben Tanzer.
Steve Lafler Comics & Illustration 