Friday by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin

 I don't really think much about ranking my favorite writers and artists in today's day and age, but if your single metric for that is "how quickly I get to reading a book once I have received it in the mail," then I think Ed Brubaker is my favorite writer of the modern day and Marcos Martin is near the top of my favorite artists of the modern day. So I got the third installment of Friday two days ago and I read it in one sitting today. And what a capper to a great trilogy. I had already been super into it since book 1 because of its very heavy "Encyclopedia Brown but make it weird" vibes, but the way things developed and the way the plot twisted and turned every step of the way makes this book impossible to review without spoiling, and also makes it one I look forward to rereading from the very beginning.

Friday is available online at the Panel Syndicate website for any price you're willing to pay, and is also available in print.

The Beatles Story, as Drawn by George Perez

In 1978, Marvel Super Special #4 printed The Beatles Story, by comics writer and rock journalist David Anthony Kraft and soon-to-be legendary artists George Perez and Klaus Janson. Over on The Comics Cube YouTube channel, Paul and I go through the comic page by page, and you can view it here:

And you can go through it with us by clicking on the images below (thanks to this Flickr account for providing the service of uploading everything): 

Tom Gauld's Revenge of the Librarians

Sometimes I follow comics online, and as amusing as I find them, I never buy the physical copy of their books. Tom Gauld, who does comic strips for various publications, has a simple diagrammatic art style (which, while simple, does not look easy) and a humor that is so deadpan and wry that works on both lowbrow and highbrow subject matters, so I picked up his Revenge of the Librarians. 

His cartoons make me laugh - and when they don't, they make me wonder what I'm missing. I've included a couple of my favorites here. 

 Drawn in large part in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book is also an entertaining little time capsule of a period in which a bunch of us were stuck with nothing but our books. Highly recommended reading! Get it here!