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 #53

Just returned from five days at the coast in Puerto Angel and environs. What a great run of beach towns there! Gorgeous and laid back.
Now it's back to work, here is the latest EL VOCHO page.


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Just a few more pages to ink, then it's on to a round of revisions. Then I'll pitch this baby to a list of publishers I've put together, although I could always put it out on my own MANX MEDIA imprint too.

For sure, I will have a publishing event in San Francisco at the Mercury Cafe in Hayes Valley on July 22, if you happen to be in town just then. We're puttin' together a pickup band for the event, as the DICK NIXON EXPEREINCE, but the music itself will be puro Oaxacabilly.

El Vocho #52

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I'm posting on Monday night instead of Wednesday this week, I'm heading to the beach!




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

El Vocho #51

Another preposterous page of comics from El Bocho.
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I'm still digging into my supply of ratty brushes to see what emerges on the page. It's a cool technical challenge to make good looking comics with THICK Mexican ink and ratty, beat up brushes. I'm diggin' it.


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

El Vocho #50

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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 #43

This here is a short edition of El Vocho online. I'm traveling over the holidays, away from the drawing board. The new comics on Wednesday posts will resume in January.
I'll be visiting some indy comics shops & bookstores late December/early January as I drive from Massachusetts to Oaxaca. Nothing formal, just looking to stock some stores with my books and lay groundwork for the El Vocho tour for summer 2010.
Probably will post from the road.



New Comics posted every Wednesday. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2009 Steve Lafler

El Vocho #42

The El Vocho Graphic Novel will appear in summer 2010. I am planning a U.S. tour to promote the book, with west coast dates in mid July and East coast dates in late July/early August. Any suggestions for art cafes or indie comics shops to visit are welcome!
New Comics posted every Wednesday. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2009 Steve Lafler

El Vocho #41

New Comics posted every Wednesday. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2009 Steve Lafler

El Vocho #39

New Comics posted every Wednesday. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2009 Steve Lafler

El Vocho #38

New Comics posted every Wednesday. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2009 Steve Lafler

El Vocho #37

This is a short post; I was on vacation most of the past week for Dia De Muertos. But the suspense builds nonetheless!
New Comics posted every Wednesday. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2009 Steve Lafler

El Vocho #36

New Comics posted every Wednesday. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2009 Steve Lafler

El Vocho #35

Wednesday is new post day... from now on, I'll post any new material to El Vocho on Wednesdays. To read El Vocho from the start, check out the blog archives.
©2009 Steve Lafler