Forty Hour Man

Is it a career or a series of really lame jobs? Stephen Beaupre (author) and Steve Lafler (cartoonist) pose this timeless question in Forty Hour Man a hilarious saga of one working stiffs three-decade journey into the minimum wage heart of the American Dream. Its all here - from scrubbing a steakhouse floor with a toothbrush to going bust in the Internet boom. Every bad boss. Every crazy co-worker. All the more shocking because its true! Stephen Beaupre is a writer editor and unrepentant amateur musician. He is best known to comic aficionados as the former co-publisher of the Cat-Head Comics imprint and editor of Buzzard the 90s preeminent comic anthology. Post-comic pursuits include Beyond the Fringe a long-running humor column featured in Worcester Magazine and hard time in the Internet trench as writer/editor for popular online destinations such as Angelfire Tripod and Monster. He is inordinately fond of pancakes.