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Friday Favorites: Robert A. Maguire

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(All images in this post are pictures taken by me of the books that I am reviewing, unless otherwise noted.)

Well before I began budgeting my book purchases I had ordered a number of things through my local comic shop. Back around May, this book, Dames Dolls and Gun Molls: The Art of Robert A. Maguire, serendipitously arrived as I was smack dab in the middle of reading crime/noir/pulp fiction. I wasted no time in reading it, after all it was a beautiful collection of art from an artist whose work I admire. In an effort to catch up on book reviews, it seemed like a splendid idea to wrap this book review around a Friday Favorites post, thus giving you more bang for your buck.

Please join me in paying homage to one of the the true masters in paperback book cover illustration, Robert A. Maguire.

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Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunted ~Darwyn Cooke

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Parker: The Hunted ~Darwyn Cooke

–July 2009, IDW
–144 pages
–3.5/5 stars

Although I have lived with myself for a little over 40 years now, my reading whims seem to take very curious turns that surprise even me. Earlier this year I read an as-yet-to-be-reviewed mystery novel that sent me down a summer reading path of noir/pulp crime fiction and mystery. The universe seems to have picked up on this trend and has been placing books in my path that have been keeping this trend going, for example, this recently released adaptation of Richard Stark’s (aka Donald Westlake) novel The Hunter, featuring his character Parker.

Being a fan of Darwyn Cooke, who I reviewed back in 2005, this was a no-brainer order for me when I saw it in the Previews order catalog many, many months ago.

Years ago Berkley put out Richard Stark’s Parker novels in a series entitled “The Violent World of Parker”. After reading Cooke’s illustrated, graphic novel presentation of the work, it is easy to see why.

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