Bughouse #1 is quite free e-download. And quite thankful for that we are.

So do hit it, it just might change your life.

Death in Oaxaca #1 by the Steve Lafler there is.

More here. Here. And even here.

Lost in Space. The house it is.

Lost In Space. March. Happening.

And more, here, here, or here, if that happens to be your thing.

The Lafler. Death in Oaxaca. Quarter Moon. Locust Moon Comics. Sneak peek.

Backed yo. Take One.

More. So much more.

Steve Lafler. Menage a Bughouse. Touring. Indiegogo. Mass excitement. And such.

Most excited we are to let you know about the new Menage a Bughouse from good friend and comix rockstar dude Steve Lafler, which collects all three of the terrific Bughouse graphic novels under one title. We are also excited to let you know that Steve is touring the United States throughout July in support of the collection and we think you should most definitely hit that if he's coming to your town. Most finally, Steve is Indiegogo as well. So please do check it out, all of it, and please know that we're pretty sure doing so just might change your life.  

Steve Lafler. Jack Black. And the Radio Insecto. Oh my.

Oh my word are we loving this. Legendary comix dude Steve Lafler, both the publisher of Lucky Man at his Manx Media press, as well as, a This Zine Will Change Your Life contributor has posted a new kick-ass cartoon video for his Jack Black song under the nom de plume Radio Insecto, which we are also most self-servingly happy to report first appeared in the Zine though we are apparently having some "missing tracklist" issues there which need to be addressed by one of the interns most quickly indeed.  

KICKSTARTER action. THE2NDHAND. And El Vocho.

There are two KICKSTARTER campaigns happening right now that we are most excited about and want to let you know about as well.

The first is by the always sublime THE2NDHAND, a long-time supporter of TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer's work, and their efforts to fund a massively awesome literary celebration of THE2NDHAND's now ten plus years of publishing.



And the second is by long-time TBWCYL, Inc. favorite and This Zine Will Change Your Life contributor Steve Lafler and his efforts to fund the balance of shipping and printing costs for his terrific new graphic novel El Vocho.



We hope you will take a look at both of these campaigns and consider offering them your support, it may or may not change your life, but it will certainly make the lives of these artists that much easier.

"I can relate to this book...as a creative person, and as a fellow runner." 99 Problems gets Self Employment for Bohemians'd. And likes it. A lot.

Big thanks to TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Steve Lafler for his kind words and 99 Problems shout out over at Self Employment for Bohemians. Drinks on us next time we get together for sure.


"I can relate to this book, both as a creative person, and as a fellow runner. I'm the target audience here! Plus, Ben and I have the same high school PR in the 880 yard run of 2:01, knocking on the door of the two minute barrier, always a worthy goal for a high school kid."

A crazy awesome and freakishly well-deserved multi-part Steve Lafler career spanning interview at The Comics Journal.

It's true, the quite awesome The Comics Journal is currently running a multi-part, career spanning interview with comix legend, long-time TBWCYL, Inc. favorite, publisher of Lucky Man and This Zine Will Change Your Life contributor Steve Lafler and we couldn't be more thrilled for him. Please do take a look and definitely go enjoy the brief excerpt below, any and all of which will certainly change your life.

RC: Do you consider yourself to be a writer that draws, an artist that writes, or neither?

SL: Basically I’m a guy who loves to draw, but in truth I see it like this: I’m a conduit for a set of muses who use me as a tool to bring certain ideas and exuberant spirits into physical reality. I’ve always felt like a conscript in a cartoon army of one. A willing conscript, with a real sense of mission. Now, defining and articulating that mission is a whole other matter!

This Book Will Change Your Life - Red Ivy Afternoon by Mark R. Brand.

What we have found fascinating over the last week or so of reading, is that just about everything we have read has had two traits in common. One, they have invoked memories of the things we read when we were kids, and two, they have lent themselves to larger topics impacting society and the world today, especially the environment, immigration, economic stress and corruption, both corporate and governmental, assuming there is even a difference when it comes to the latter. First, there was Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, which not only took us back to when we read Mike Royko's column in our hometown paper, but also offered some fascinating commentary on the current Daley administration, and then El Vocho: Love at the Twilight of Oil, which hearkened back to our love of comics, all the while riffing on our love affair with oil. All of which leads us to Red Ivy Afternoon by TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Mark R. Brand, a terrific book that not only reminds us of our early feverish readings of all things science fiction, see The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man especially, not to mention Dune, The Foundation Trilogy and John Carter Warlord of Mars too, but as all great science fiction books do, offers the reader a look at not just a world much like we know, yet alternate, and speculative, a world where the government is endlessly up to clandestine activities, really, corporations control the means to everything, no, revolution feels this close, well, maybe not, but also provides just enough little twists of imagination, for example, a mysterious, albeit plausible, white powder that instantly heals wounds, and just enough thrills and violence to make for a wholly enjoyable, and yet just different enough read to know you've encountered a book where the author is trying to do something a step removed from what we usually read, yet still create a world you can embrace.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live, quite Vocho, all comix and very Lafler.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and quite Vocho. Or something like that. We have a series of firsts for this edition, one, a comic titled El Vocho by legendary writer/illustrator Steve Lafler, which we are way excited about, and two, music by Steve as well, which is also way exciting. There is not photo action this edition, but that doesn't mean we don't love the Adam Lawrence as much as always, not to mention his fellow staffers Jason Behrends and Pete Anderson as well, because we love them too. A lot. This much. We also love you of course and so we hope you enjoy this edition. We appreciate all shout-outs and links and want to be sure you know that all submissions from this point forward are being managed via our good friends at submishmash. Finally, please note, we also hope that more of you will submit comix, and music, and combinations there of. More finally, we recently riffed on Steve's new graphic novel which is conveniently titled El Vocho: Love at the Twilight of Oil and being released this month, so please consider taking a look at that as well. And most finally, we think that you are quite fine, nice work.

This Book Will Change Your Life - El Vocho: Love at the Twilight of Oil by Steve Lafler.

It is always an event here at TBWCYL, Inc. headquarters when legendary comix dude and TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Steve Lafler releases a new joint and so it is with great excitement that we let you know that we just received a "Limited Release Prepublication Galley" of El Vocho: Love at the Twilight of Oil which is being released later this month. On the face of it, El Vocho is an entertaining story of an Expat artist living the bohemian life in Mexico that manages to both celebrate the culture of Volkswagon Bugs and weigh-in, in the most timely of ways, on the state of oil and the need for alternative sources for fuel and energy. What El Vocho also accomplishes however is something few artists or writers understand quite like Lafler does, it knows its audience, maybe not all of it, but the biggest part of it anyway, nerdy, artist dudes, and what they love most, science, cars, hints of violence, and chicks, preferably of the cartoonish nature, all full of curves, long hair and lips, who are happy to take off their clothes at any time, especially with nerdy, artist, Expat artist dudes. So, please do give El Vocho a look, it will certainly change our life, and please do keep an eye out for the next edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life, which is currently experiencing some technical glitches, but is coming soon, and will be all Lafler all the time when it does come out.

Steve lafler is having a moment. Self Employment for Bohemians: The Book is now available for your consumption.

We are quite excited about this and we want you to be excited as well. Cool?

Tranny by Steve Lafler.

For those of you who have not imbibed on legendary comix dude Steve Lafler's earlier work, including the quite stellar 40 Hour Man and the quite killer BugHouse trilogy, please do, and in the interim please feel free to warm-up with his latest work Tranny, a loving homage to cross-dressing superheroes and the people who worship them.

The blogging, shout-outs and mass marketing has begun. And we are most humble and appreciative.

Many thanks to all of of our friends for their kind words about Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine going live and much appreciation to our boys Nick Ostdick, author of the quite wonderful Sunbeams and Cigarettes, Steve Lafler, of Bughouse comix fame and publisher of Lucky Man at Manx Media, Jim McKay, the most awesome Wabi-Sabi, and Jason Jordan overseer of all things decomP and the author of the very rocking Powering the Devil's Circus, for the "Go Your Way..." shout-outs on their most excellent blogs.