El Vocho in Portland, Oregon

I'm appearing at Reading Frenzy at 921 SW Oak Street in downtown Portland, Oregon on July 15th at 7 p.m. with my new graphic novel El Vocho.
I am really excited to be going back to Portland where I used to live.
I'll be playing my Oaxacabilly tunes with my good friend David Perkin on percussion. I just released one of my tunes today, Jack Black Song, on a web zine called This Zine Will Save Your Life.

El Vocho Book is For Sale

El Vocho, my new 100 page graphic novel, is now available for $12.00 + postage at this link from my lulu page.



For an easy to read preview, visit El Vocho online at CO2. Bill and Gerry have figured out online comics better than anybody, and it's my good fortune to post with them.

El Vocho Book Cover

Here is the cover for the El Vocho graphic novel. Click on the image to see it larger.



I am creating a limited edition prepublication run of El Vocho to tour with this summer. I will sell these at my tour stops. The formal release of the book will come later, after I create humongous buzz with the summer tour.

This book is getting the long roll out, so I can take over the known and unknown universe with it.

copyright 2010 Steve Lafler

So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star

Click here for El Vocho tour update.



Photo by Jeff Charles

El Vocho: The End

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These are the last two pages of the El Vocho graphic novel.
I've posted the whole book. Actually, I've written and drawn a 3 page prelude to the story, I gotta go back and check if I ever posted that.

Now, I'm on to some story edits, then the whole process of publishing and marketing a graphic novel.

El Vocho is also being posted from the start in a more visually friendly format at CO2 comics, check it out.

I'll continue to post to this blog pertinent news and info about the upcoming book version of the story.

I hope you enjoy this, and comments, questions and suggestions are welcome.

Steve Lafler

El Vocho #57

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This was the last page of El Vocho, with the major conflict resolved, but I just wrote a few more pages to tie up some loose ends. No matter how you slice it, the book is just about done!
My former publisher Brett (Top shelf) also made a suggestion to expand the scene in the middle of the book where Rosa finally flies in the Vocho, so I'm gonna look over the story and think about adding a page or two there also.

El Vocho #55

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Bye! I'm off to Mexico City to haunt some museums n' stuff.