Steve Lafler

Steve Lafler was born in Rochester, New York in 1957. He earned a degree in painting from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in December 1979. While a student, Lafler drew the daily comic strip 'Aluminum Foil' for the Massachusetts Daily Collegian from 1976 to 1979. He published his first book in March 1980, titled 'Benb and Gerald', a 100-page collection of his college strips (mostly influenced by a psychedelic mushroom trip).

Steve Lafler has published over fifty comic books since then, starting with 'Mean Cat' in 1981. Other titles include 'Guts', 'Dog Boy' (partly published by Fantagraphics), 'Duck & Cover' (written by Stephen Beaupre), 'Femme Noire', 'Prometheus' Gift', the comic anthology 'Buzzard' (co-published with Stephen Beaupre as editor), and 'Bughouse'. Steve published most of these under his Cat-Head Comics imprint. The first 'Bughouse' graphic novel was a Cat-Head Comics title in 1996, then an expanded version was published by Top Shelf Productions in June 2000.