El Vocho #50

Click on the page to see it REALLY BIG!


Today's page is strange in that lyric, poetic mode that I love so much.
Leave logic behind, stop thinking and let it flow, baby!

New Comics posted every Wednesday. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2010 Steve Lafler

El Vocho #49

Please click on the comics to see them BIG! This week I've uploaded a couple pages from El Vocho at the biggest size blogger allows.



New Comics posted every Wednesday. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2010 Steve Lafler

El Vocho #48

Again I've posted full comic pages to El Vocho. To see these suckers really big, just click on them. Lemme know whatcha think about this approach to posting these comics.



The web is great for media like animation, music and movies, but comics? They just work better in book format. However, I post these El Vocho pages anyway, it's the best way to get the word out about the book prior to official publication.
IN the old days, I'd put out a series of comic magazines such as Bughouse, then collect them all in a graphic novel. To say it's no longer economically viable for me to publish individual comic mags is an understatement! I used to make a bit of money on it before the big Diamond Comics monopoly takeover of comics distribution in 1996. I miss the old comic books, but maybe things are better now, fewer trees are cut to put out the mags, and the graphic novel has a literary cache that it did not yet have back then. Now, if only MY graphic novels could catch on like the latest teen pop sensation! Fuck, if only I was sixteen!
New Comics posted every Wednesday. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2010 Steve Lafler

El Vocho #47

Another experiment today with El Vocho, just posting the whole page as drawn. Click on the art to get a larger size image to appear.
New Comics posted every Wednesday. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2010 Steve Lafler

El Vocho #46

El Vocho looks a bit different this week, I'm going to post the story without image edits. I've usually trimmed stuff out that sticks in from adjoining panels (I have no desire to honor the panel borders).
The book is nearing completion. I'm trying to hit a gear where the pace picks up, so no more time wasting edits!
Sort of like when publisher Kitchen Sink was putting out their reprints of Steve Canyon by Milton Caniff, you could see where he'd drawn outside of the panel border and they left it in, it just looked brilliant, what a brush man ol' imperialist Milton was!
New Comics posted every Wednesday. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2010 Steve Lafler

El Vocho #45

I brought a new large format scanner from the states to my studio in Mexico over the holidays. I'm excited about it, as it will help me put comics from my entire career back in print, including Bughouse, Dog Boy and more. It will take time to get everything in print, especially as I want to publish El Vocho first.
But I gotta say, the prospect of having it all available is thrilling. I mean, the Dog Boy book alone with be close to 500 pages of very unusual, highly entertaining underground comics!
New Comics posted every Wednesday. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2010 Steve Lafler

El Vocho #44

Here's a couple more panels of El Vocho. Trying to get back up to speed after the holidays, problem is I'm obsessed with playin' guitar, gotta put the damn thing down and pick up the brush! Hey!
New Comics posted every Wednesday. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2010 Steve Lafler