Award-winner Ed Brubaker and artist Marcos Martin are teaming up with the new comic Friday. The series is based on Friday Fitzhugh (a girl detective), and her best friend Lancelot Jones. The two spent their childhood solving crimes and uncovering secrets of the occult. Now years later, Friday is in college and on her own. When she returns from the holidays, she ends up back in contact with Lancelot Jones. Neither are expecting the Christmas Vacation from hell. The comic is like if the tons of random kids series with spies and occult series raised artist Edward Gorey into adulthood. Color me smitten already,
The first chapter, The Girl in the Trees is available now on Panel Syndicate: Panel Syndicate, where fans pay what they want to read the comic.
“One of the first things I said to Marcos was that this book feels like Lovecraft’s New England is colliding with Edward Gorey’s,” said Brubaker. “And I like to describe FRIDAY as post-YA, which is a genre that doesn’t really exist. It’s an idea I’ve been circling for a long time, that lets me tap into my own nostalgia for my youth and the YA books I loved back in the 70s and 80s – stuff like The Great Brain, or John Belliars books, or Harriet the Spy, or Encyclopedia Brown. I want to take that concept of the teen detective and those supernatural mysteries aimed at kids, but then let the protagonists grow up, so they have all the same problems we all do… and they encounter a much more dangerous world.”
While they had planned to do a surprise drop, Ed Brubaker admits he wasn’t aware that it would be releasing during a global pandemic:
“When we started work on the series last summer, we had no idea our surprise drop would come during a global pandemic, with a comic market that’s completely shut down,” said Brubaker. “But I know that my level of reading comics and books, and marathoning everything on Netflix, has gone through the roof the last month, so hopefully FRIDAY will be a nice surprise for comic readers today, and maybe a small escape from the real world right now.”
