He is known for his comic book series Cud, and his syndicated strip Edge City, created with his wife, Patty LaBan, a couples and family therapist.

[citation needed] LaBan is known for his sympathetic and believable characters, real-life dialogue, tight cartooning style, and straightforward storytelling.

Loosely based on LaBan's own life at the time,[5] Unsupervised Existence was a semi-humorous comic book soap opera that followed the adventures of Suzy and Danny, a young, bohemian couple living in Cleveland.

In the book, hulking, morose Bob comes into his own after he leaves the United States in the wake of breaking up with his flighty girlfriend Annadette, who decided she was more into women than men.

LaBan vividly evoked the nothing-to-lose, anything-can-happen world of the unfettered, impecunious vagabond as Bob tries everything from selling junk jewelry on the street to getting ripped off after a romantic encounter.

Patterned after books like Dan Clowes' Eightball and R. Crumb's Zap,[9] Cud featured a continuing story called "You Can't Spank the Monkey If It's on Your Back", which followed the rise and fall of a performance artist named Bob Cudd.

Between managing their careers and taking care of their kids, Len and Abby barely have time to wave to each other as they hurry off to yet another meeting, carpool or errand.

[2] Later Laban serialized an original full-length graphic novel about his character Muktuk Wolfsbreath, a "hard-boiled" Siberian shaman living in an unspecified past.

"[citation needed] New episodes were posted twice a week at www.hardboiledshaman.com;[dead link‍] LaBan self-published the complete graphic novel in Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Hard Boiled Shaman: The Spirit of Boo, in 2012.