Free Comic Book Day is tomorrow! All you have to do is stop by your neighborhood comics shop and pick up a free book or two. That's it! Shops are planning all sorts of special events—for example, at their Georgetown store, Fantagraphics is hosting a barbecue and a party to celebrate the fantastic local Intruder anthology—and everyone is welcome. (Don't know where your nearest comics shop is? There's a locator right here.)

There will be 60 different free titles available at various shops (not all books will be available everywhere, of course) and so let me offer some advice: Look for the Fantagraphics comics. The Hip Hop Family Tree issue created by Ed Piskor has to be one of the most fun free comics available tomorrow. It documents the hiphop/comics connection, explaining what these two most American of art forms have in common. But if you're looking for an all-ages title to give a special kid in your life, you can't go wrong with the Fantagraphics reissue of Don Rosa's Uncle Scrooge adventure "A Matter of Some Gravity." A spell disrupts gravity for Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck, so their whole world goes sideways. It's like Duck Tales meets the hotel fight from Inception, and it's just a gorgeous, fun example of what comics can do.

But you should remember that Free Comic Book Day exists for novices to find a gateway into the world of comics. If you regularly enjoy comics, Free Comic Book Day should be the comics equivalent of Record Store Day for you. By all means, pick up your free titles—but you should also buy a comic or two, too. Looking for something to pick up? I'd still recommend anything on this shopping list—especially the Fantagraphics Nancy comics collection and Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staple's Saga, which is the best ongoing series in comics today. I really like the funny, sex-positive Image Comic Sex Criminals, and Ms. Marvel has been an absolute goddamned delight so far, and so was the first issue of Lumberjanes. If you're buying for younger audiences, too, you might want to think about the Simpsons line of comics, which has been publishing some great work by creators like Peter Kuper and Gilbert Hernandez, and Batman '66, which is the only Batman comic being published today that doesn't make me want to kill myself. But these aren't the only books that are worth your time; there's a lot of good comics being published right now, and all you have to do is ask your friendly comics store employee. They'll be happy to help.