Required reading from the week in books and comics.

Sh-t My Dad Says bookFrom a popular Twitter account (and an upcoming TV show) to a book: "Sh** My Dad Says" is officially a multimedia phenomenon. Thankfully, the book -- which features photos and more surly wisdom from author Justin Halpern's 74-year-old pops -- isn't just a collection of Tweets. See, kids, it pays to listen to your elders. Sometimes they say the darnedest things!

Also in stores this week:
-- The coffee table book "Art in Time: Unknown Comic Adventures, 1940–1980" turns the spotlight on forgotten comic artists and cartoonists whose weird and wonderful works (like the detective noir "Johnny Dynamite") are worth rediscovering.
-- Damon Wayans goes the Tyler Perry route with "Red Hats," a serio-comic novel about an elderly woman who joins the tea-sipping gossip hounds in the Red Hat Society. That sound you hear is Wayans pitching the book to some hotshot Hollywood producer as "'Sex and the City' for the Metamucil set."
-- Comic book great Joe Kubert ("Sgt. Rock") heads to Vietnam for "Dong Xoai," a gritty, original graphic novel that depicts a group of Special Forces soldiers embroiled in a bloody conflict in the titular village.