El Vocho: Clean Energy Comes to the Comics

Oct. 8, 2008 - PRLog -- In El Vocho, Rosa the mechanic and Eddie the artist fall in love against a backdrop of intrigue—Rosa has created the ultimate green engine, but the oil industry will stop at nothing to erase all trace of it! Find out if Rosa can dodge the oil goons & bring her clean technology to the public.

Steve Lafler offers a crackling urban romance pairing uber cute Rosa, a brilliant inventor, with the laconic Eddie, boy/man artist. Can love blossom over the backdrop of a tense thriller pitting big oil against budding genius Rosa?

Indie comics veteran Lafler is best known for Bughouse, a graphic novel trilogy (Top Shelf Productions) tracing the emergence of Be-bop jazz, featuring an all insect cast.

With El Vocho, the cartoonist is tinkering with the emerging publishing model within the cartooning trade. “With the simultaneous emergence of web media and the ascendancy of the graphic novel in the book trade, it's the perfect time to bring clean energy themes to comics. The next economy will be a green economy. I believe that we can improve life for everyone and create jobs at the same time. My muse has compelled me to create a love story/thriller on the subject” says Lafler. “My strategy with El Vocho is to post the complete work on the web, and subsequently publish it as a graphic novel.” He sees the work being completed in Spring 2009, having put the first post up this past April.

El Vocho is being posted as it is created at http://www.vochocomix.blogspot.com/

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Manx Media publishes graphic novels by cartoonist Steve Lafler; we underwrite this crazy stuff with our TShirt custom screen printing business.