Steve Lafler's Holiday Art Sale 2014

Come on in, check out these favorite Lafler art pieces at ridiculous deals for the Holidays! Paintings and original comics pages & covers.

You’ll know which one you just have to buy, it’ll call your name.

The sale is a my Steve Lafler site here, with a full gallery of the offerings.

Have a fantastic holiday!

Just Finished

Just finished this page, from the upcoming comic book Death in Oaxaca #2.

Brush & ink on bristol board, 10.75" x 16.5".

First $250 takes it. Email Steve for details.

Death in Oaxaca Ebook at Comixology

Steve Lafler's new comic magazine Death in Oaxaca (Alternative) shipped to comic book stores in August. Now it's also available as an Ebook at Comixology--and it's a real steal, 34 pages of great comics for only 99 cents!

Visit Comixology to order Death in Oaxaca for .99

Meanwhile, Lafler is hard at work on issue #2 of Death in Oaxaca.

Somebody better give this guy a cuppa strong coffee! Time to buzz out more pages!

Steve Lafler Catalog Update: New Series, Old Faves, and Cool T-Shirts

First and foremost, I'm delighted to offer my brand new comic book set in my adopted home town of Oaxaca, Mexico. But there's more, I've peppered this post with links to the major works from my entire comics career. Thanks for visiting! I can honestly guarantee a fun, weird and unusual ride from all of these here comic books and graphic novels.

Steve Lafler 

My new comic book Death in Oaxaca is here! You can get it from the publisher Alternative Comics or from Amazon at this link for $4.99.

The mundane, the sublime and the bizarre show up in their best party attire in the new comic book series from the creator of Dog Boy and Bughouse. Two expats move to remote Oaxaca, the fabled highland city in southern Mexico. Rex, earnest yet duplicitous, flees from mid-life crisis and fear of death. Beautiful Gertie, cynical but honest, is just plain bored and craves adventure. They contend with Lucha Libre wrestlers and an ancient vampire who prefers chicken, and enjoy the best fresh corn tortillas on the planet.

And of course you need the Death in Oaxaca T-Shirt to complete the experience! OK, so it's in Spanish, so it's really a "Los Muertos de Oaxaca" T Shirt. Here is the Design:

 Available at this link from my Redbubble shop for $26.97. Visit my entire line of shirts at Redbubble here.

My back catalog books El Vocho and 40 Hour Man are available from Wow Cool, the mail order arm of my new publisher. You can also order these titles from my Lulu shop. Here's the books:

 El Vocho. Love at the twilight of oil. 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.

40 Hour Man. 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. It's all here - from scrubbing a steakhouse floor with a toothbrush to going bust in the Internet boom. Every bad boss. Every crazy co-worker. All the more shocking because it's true!

 Wait a Minute! What about Bughouse and Dog Boy?

Don't worry, I did not forget about the work I am best known for! I've published two huge legacy volumes with CO2, collecting every page of both series!

Ménage à BUGHOUSE collects the funky jazz noir BUGHOUSE trilogy by Steve Lafler in one volume. 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".

Read Bughouse online at CO2

Doggie Style: The Complete Dog Boy. Imagine an enthusiastic, ambitious young artist of the 1980s who happens to have an enormous golden retriever head on a human body. Given to flights of fancy and the odd meditation on the truly mundane, this Dog Boy searches for meaning, all too often via a six pack of Rainer Ale pounders! 

Steve Lafler sat down from 1882 to 1988 and drew nearly 500 pages of Dog Boy. Most of the time, he drew with no script, and in fact looked to emptying his mind before putting pencil to bristol board. 

The entire results are collected here in in the 488 page omnibus, DOGGIE STYLE The Complete DOG BOY! Now you can pay witness to the genius that flowed from Steve's streaming consciousness as he created one of the most truly independent comic works of all time!

Read Dog Boy online at CO2

AND, one more thing! We've looked at my print books and T-Shirts, lets go ahead and buy a copy of my Ebook, Cat Suit!

CAT SUIT. What kind of whack job would put on a mask and a skin-tight suit and head out into the city after midnight? I mean, what is this guy really up to? What pathology, what perverse proclivity are we dealing with here? Is he fighting crime? Of course not, he’s just going clubbing—and he’s frankly perplexed when the aggressive bar flies & drunks single him out. The guy in question is Manx, a costumed cat man. Available digitally!

Steve Lafler's 2014 Comic Art Sale

I'm offering these select pages of original comic art from my new title Death in Oaxaca for $200 each. 

These gorgeous works are 11" x 16.5", executed in brush & india ink on bristol board.  I picked my favorite ten pages to feature in this offer.

Here is a historic chance to get some early art from my next major work, indeed each purchase is an investment in the ongoing production of the eventual publication of the Death in Oaxaca graphic novel.

I'm in the states through August 4th, and on August 5th I'm returning to my home in Oaxaca. So I can process any order that comics in up to the morning of August 5. Payment via paypal preferred, but checks and cards are a possibility. 

Interested parties can email me here, or call 503-213-3671.

Pages are shipped insured.

Steve

The serious collector (or institutional collector) may want to consider purchasing the original art for the entire 34 page story for $5500.00

Copyright 2014 Steve Lafler

New T-Shirts Designs from Steve

 Here's a couple new T-Shirt designs I just put in my Redbubble Store (here). If you order them, I can eat!

Rots of Rove, Steve

Steve Lafler Bay Area Appearances July 2014

Dog Boy & Keith on Ebay

 

My wacky Dog Boy & Keith Painting is up on Ebay at this link...

It's a 9" x 12" acrylic. 

Guitars and Rock Stars are fun to paint. Actually, so are cars and monsters. All these images stuck in my head, pop culture from 1963 and on. It's not profound but it looks cool!

Steve Lafler

New Music: The Skinny

Andy Keith and Steve Lafler comprise The Skinny (so far.)

We are a couple of guitar slinging guys with a fresh batch of our own tunes, working up our sound in the city of Oaxaca de Juarez in southern Mexico.

Andy is a midwestern son of Minneapolis, bringing his cracker-barrel Buddha, country infused songs to life with a warm, familiar voice and an ingenious signature rhythm all his own.

Steve is a longtime Californian by way of Western Massachusetts with a penchant for short bursts of surreal country punk narrative.

We went into the studio in Oaxaca in April, 2014 and laid down basic tracks for a bunch of our original tunes. Our ten song initial release is available from Amazon at this link for $7.99

Death in Oaxaca: The New Comic Book From Steve Lafler

Cartoonist Steve Lafler (Bughouse, Dog Boy) is back with a new comic book series set in Oaxaca, the magical city in the remote highlands of southern Mexico.

Death in Oaxaca will be a six issue miniseries and subsequent graphic novel published on the Alternative Comics imprint. 

The surreal adventure serves up Lucha Libre wrestlers and an ancient vampire who prefers chicken to human blood. Rex and Gertie are expats, moving to remote Oaxaca. Rex, earnest yet duplicitous, flees from mid-life crisis and fear of death. Beautiful Gertie, cynical but honest, is just plain bored and craves adventure. Their son Myles is simply in love with Oaxacan food.

Comics Retailers can order Death in Oaxaca from the June 2014 Diamond Previews comics distribution catalog. The book ships in August. Here is a copy of the catalog listing: 

 Death in Oaxaca is a 36 page comic book (plus covers) retailing at $4.99. There will also be ebook versions available in English and Spanish.

Weekly Bughouse Page

Here is the Thursday Weekly update of Bughouse at this link.

Bughouse is my graphic novel about the birth of Be-Bop jazz set in an insect-noir, indigo toned Manhattan of the early 1950s. CO2 comics is posted a page per week on their great webcomix site. They also have published a handsome book of the entire 400 page Bughouse saga.

This week's page focuses on the rationalization of the addict, "just one little taste surely is OK!"

Steve Lafler

Manx Media Offers Great Pricing on 100 Tshirts

Manx Media is offering great pricing on orders of 100 custom printed Tshirts through June 6. Details here.

Spring 2014 Custom T-Shirt Printing Price list.

Manx Media of Portland, OR Custom Screen printing prices this season. Email Steve Lafler for more info. Visit the Manx Media Custom Screen Printing blog.

Minimum 50 shirts.

Includes 1/c print, add .40 2/C, .65 3/C, .90 4/C, 1.10 5/C,

2/C .40

3/C .65

4/C .90

5/C 1.10

6/C 1.35

PRICES INCLUDE PRINTING in one color ink.

Add amount indicated above for multi-color printing.

Gildan 5000

$4.95

cotton T

Quantity Discounts:

Gildan 2000

$5.50

100 shirts, less .35 per shirt. 200 shirts, less.55 per shirt. 300 shirts, less .65

Hwt cotton T

2X, 3X, 4X shirts slightly more expensive.

Gildan 5000B

$4.75

child cotton T

Gildan 2000B

$5.20

WHITE TSHIRT slightly less – prices indicated are for color shirts.

Child T Hwt

Gildan 2400

$8.75

LongsleeveT

SALE ITEMS: When our supplier offers us special pricing, we pass it on to you.

Gildan 5400

$7.75

Check at time of quote for special offers.

LonsleeMdWt

Gildan Hoodie

$17.95

Prices based on print-ready jpeg, Photoshop or Illustrator files.

Adult 185

Gildan Hoodie

$16.95

Art & design services available

Child 185B

Am Ap 2001

$6.90

cotton T

AmAp BB301

$7.30

50/50women

AmApBB401

$7.50

50/50 Men

Am Ap 4400

$8.20

cotton rib T

AmAm 4305

$6.75

ScoopNeckT

AmAp 4321

$6.75

CapSleeveT

AmAp 4311

$6.50

Spagetti T

Portland Oregon T-Shirt Printing

David Perkin and I are still handling custom screen printed T-Shirt jobs in Portland, Oregon. Get the full scoop at this link.

Call me at 503-213-3671 or email me for a quote.

Steve Lafler

CAT SUIT new Steve Lafler Ebook

My New comic Ebook Cat Suit is out today! It's a hilarious 50 page super hero parody.

You can buy it at this link.

This is my first project with my new publisher, Alternative Comics.

Steve Lafler Paintings on EBay

I've put a bunch of my acrylic paintings up on EBay at great prices. Here's an opportunity to get a sweet piece of art that won't break the bank.

Here they are--each image is followed by a link to it's EBay auction page for the piece. The starting prices for each auction are listed.

 Cave Vocho Mandala, 9"x12", $89.00

 

Drinking Dennnis, 8" x 10", $115.00 

Yes, when Dennis is bombed, there are three letter "n" in his name...

 Rockabilly Werewolf, 10" x 12", $125.00

 

Wild Little Pig, 8" x 10",  $115.00

Mr. Fantastic in Drag, 11" x 14", $195.00

Cat Suit, 11" x 14", $195.00

Steve Lafler

Caveat emptor: My scanner is not the best, the colors are more vibrant that depicted here.

Lafler Art on Ebay: Bughouse and More

I've just put four separate art auction pages up on EBay. I'm reproducing the all the art here, with a link to each auction. 

Whew, you can buy the original cartoon art of my Oaxaca Running Skeleton at an incredible price! Have I lost my mind? (Maybe a bit, but in truth I'm bent on financing some dental work.)

Or, you may want to proceed directly to an art auction featuring a set of three animal drawings, as follows:

The next item is a color collage/acrylic painting with a Bughouse theme executed on canvas (not on stretcher bars.) It's a unique item and a real deal.

Now we get to the top flight item on offer today -- the inside front cover art from Bughouse #3, published in the summer of 1995. This is a really fine example of brush and ink classic comic art from my Bughouse series.

Go ahead and treat yourself to some great original art at a fantastic price. You just can't get high-falutin' culture like this at these rates!

Steve Lafler