#Book Review: It’s Geek 2 Me by Francis Cleetus

This graphic novel definitely wasn’t my pick after browsing through the popular online shopping portals. Thanks, to my friend R who always gives me good suggestions and asked me to pick up this book. This book is surely the funniest, wittiest and craziest one, which I have come across in long time.

It’s Geek 2 Me is a collection of comic strips by Francis Cleetus revolving around the techie lives of some of the wackiest employees of a software company named Paradox Software. What makes it humorous and yet gives the sense of the bogged down lives of the techies is that Francis has coined them after famous programs, applications, et all and provided brief sketches of their profiles and glimpses of their characters. Linux Cooper, Mona Das, Emily Facebrook, Loginder Singh and Robert Cobolobo are some of the lovable characters who try to walk through their busy life and try to keep up with the ever-changing and advanced tech-savy industry.

The comics are short, mostly three panels long and drawn in traditional fashion, which are easy to the eyes. I still would have enjoyed it more, if they would have been made colouful. The interesting aspect of his comics are that they have been infused with the happenings of contemporary world of social media,  the programming sector , or just the tech world in general.

Overall, it’s an extremely entertaining book. The cartoons are well- crafted, brilliant, intelligent and funny. The situations are not exaggerated but are lame, which we face in our everyday life but often fail to laugh at them. This is one book, which one would be proud and satisfied to have in his/her collection.

It has been numbered as Volume 1, so I hope there are many more interesting ones in the pipeline.

Genre : Graphic Novel

Publisher: Hachette