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Do you like art? Comics? Wrestling? Superheroes and villains? Monsters? Then you're probably going to like writer/artist Raúl The Third's early reader books from his "El Toro & Friends" series, which, if you're a comics reader, will look like something of a hybrid of a picture book and a comic in terms of format.Short bursts of prose appear over an image on each page, which, like those of most picture books, can be read like "splash" pages in a comic, while some pages are broken into two panels. Additionally, while the narration is in prose, dialogue usually appears in comics-like dialogue balloons. In fact, if Raúl drew boxes around that narration, each entry in the series would read exactly like a comic book, albeit one for kids.In 2019, Raúl The Third published ¡Vamos! Let's Go to Market, a picture book that was similarly comic book-y. In it, anthropomorphic wolf Little Lobo and his normal dog Bernabe make deliveries to the market in a bustling, Richard Scarry-like world of…

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