Graphic Novels and Comics

Luke and Leia, Before They Were Big

The Low Road

Superhero in Exile: The Ray Goes It Alone

Wu-Tang Clan: Show Preview

Amazing Local Video Alert: Jascha Hoffman's Dreamily Illustrated "Some Hungry Guy"

Stills from the "Some Hungry Guy" video.​ Experimental animation is always ripe territory for a music video, as S.F. indie-pop songwriter Jascha Hoffman demonstrates with his new clip for "Some Hungry Guy." The video, directed by Benjamin Ahr Harrison, uses art from the Winsor McCay's century- ... More >>

No Relation to Malcolm

Stills from the "Some Hungry Guy" video.​ Experimental animation is always ripe territory for a music video, as S.F. indie-pop songwriter Jascha Hoffman demonstrates with his new clip for "Some Hungry Guy." The video, directed by Benjamin Ahr Harrison, uses art from the Winsor McCay's century- ... More >>

Breathing Funny

Stills from the "Some Hungry Guy" video.​ Experimental animation is always ripe territory for a music video, as S.F. indie-pop songwriter Jascha Hoffman demonstrates with his new clip for "Some Hungry Guy." The video, directed by Benjamin Ahr Harrison, uses art from the Winsor McCay's century- ... More >>

Oh No: Justin Bieber Comic Book Hits Stores Today

​You read that right, folks: The Biebster is now a comic book hero. A 32-page illustrated screed glamorizing his ridiculously short life is available for the price of a fancy taco starting today.All expectations are that it will sell out.So is this a sign of the apocalypse, or just another notch o ... More >>

What To Do? Monday's Pick: The Yummy Fur

​The Yummy Fur @ Cafe du Nord Named after an underground comic strip, the Yummy Fur was an underground band from 1990s Glasgow, two of whose many members went on to form Franz Ferdinand. Mainstay John McKeown now fronts a band called -- what else? -- 1990s, but has agreed to a brief Yummy Fur reu ... More >>

Fuzz Munchers

​The Yummy Fur @ Cafe du Nord Named after an underground comic strip, the Yummy Fur was an underground band from 1990s Glasgow, two of whose many members went on to form Franz Ferdinand. Mainstay John McKeown now fronts a band called -- what else? -- 1990s, but has agreed to a brief Yummy Fur reu ... More >>

Robert Crumb

​The Yummy Fur @ Cafe du Nord Named after an underground comic strip, the Yummy Fur was an underground band from 1990s Glasgow, two of whose many members went on to form Franz Ferdinand. Mainstay John McKeown now fronts a band called -- what else? -- 1990s, but has agreed to a brief Yummy Fur reu ... More >>

S.F. Library Offers 'Wee' Nostalgic Blast For Longtime Bay Area Residents

​If you grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s and '80s, there are a number of cultural elements that suddenly take you back to your overall-, Keds-, and bowl cut-wearing days. There's Bits & Pieces, James Gabbert repeatedly turning his back to the camera while hosting KOFY TV 20 D ... More >>

Diz and the Gang

​If you grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s and '80s, there are a number of cultural elements that suddenly take you back to your overall-, Keds-, and bowl cut-wearing days. There's Bits & Pieces, James Gabbert repeatedly turning his back to the camera while hosting KOFY TV 20 D ... More >>

Drawing on Life

​If you grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s and '80s, there are a number of cultural elements that suddenly take you back to your overall-, Keds-, and bowl cut-wearing days. There's Bits & Pieces, James Gabbert repeatedly turning his back to the camera while hosting KOFY TV 20 D ... More >>

All Over the Place

​If you grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s and '80s, there are a number of cultural elements that suddenly take you back to your overall-, Keds-, and bowl cut-wearing days. There's Bits & Pieces, James Gabbert repeatedly turning his back to the camera while hosting KOFY TV 20 D ... More >>

X-Factor

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Jonathan Lethem Speaks in SF

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Barry Good

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On Comics: 5 Graphic Novels to Look Out for

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A Fly-by-Knight Operation

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"I can't draw!" Cartoon Basics for Grown-Ups" at Cartoon Art Museum - Today's Calendar Pick

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Draw It Out

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Based on a Totally True Story

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Local Cartoonist on Halloween Hustling: 'Is There a Business Card Taped to This Fucking Candy?'

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Local Cartoonist on Halloween Hustling: 'Is There a Business Card Taped to This Fucking Candy?'

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Look! It’s Super Comics Guy!

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All Shocked Out -- Vice PR is Teh Suck

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Stand Up, Comics

Getting the hang of graphic novels

A Ware Ness

"Sequential artist" Chris Ware is a smart man with a strange vision

Best Museum

Cartoon Art Museum

Geek Love

Join 9,000 other comics fans and fanatics at WonderCon 2004

The Pirates and the Mouse: Disney's War Against the Counterculture

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The Wizard of Ass Has Spoken!

Hal Robins - erudite comic of the absurd, underground cartoonist of note,co-host of the world's strangest radio program, early member of the Church of the SubGenius - has a new hit with the "Ask Dr. Hal Show." But he really could use a paying gig. Really

Still Smilin'?

Part Disney, part Barnum, the man who saved comics is all Stan Lee

Best Place to Commune With 'Toons

Cartoon Art Museum

Best Vegan Shoe Store

Otsu

The Fanboy Crusade

Why a San Francisco comic-shop owner is trying to sue the pants off of Spider-Man's owners -- to the tune of $18 million

Strip City

Quirky cartoon artist Ben Katchor gets a museum retrospective

Flame On

Out of financial and creative bankruptcy, Marvel Comics is mighty once more

Totally Bizarro

Can superheroes and alternative comic authors really get along?

Best Comic Book Store

Comic Relief

Custody Battle

Marvel Comics isn't going to give up Captain America without a fight

Dream Weaver

Sandman author Neil Gaiman finds magic in the damnedest place

Best Old-Fashioned Toy Store

Jeffrey's Toys

Fatman and slobbin'

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

Katchor in the Wry

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

Recordings

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

Still Drawing After All These Years

At 74, Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz has fame, fortune, and a funny bone. So why does he dread getting out of bed?

Barbarian at the Gate

Heavy-metal titan Glenn Danzig inaugurates his own comic book line with Verotik Publishing