SFist Tonight: Comic Book Tiki Bar Crawl with Darick Robertson
Since you've heard that the irreplaceable Tonga Room is in danger of being made into condos(!!!), and the WonderCon convention is in town, what happens when the two are combined?
Tiki bar crawl. With comic book happy folks.
That's right! And the guest of honor this year is the Bay Area-esque Darick Robertson, artist behind the slaveringly brilliant Transmetropolitan series (with Uncle Internet Jesus Warren Ellis). Robertson is currently working on superhero deconstruction/destruction The Boys with the maniacal Garth Ennis, the book that's aimed to "out-Preacher [the] Preacher [comics]." To try to out-do one of Ennis's previous high points is some Serious Business. Throughout his work, Mr. Robertson is a man of admirable, gleeful skill.
This crawl is put together by the villainously-coifed James Sime, proprietor of the absolutely lovely Isotope Comic Book Lounge in Hayes Valley.
Come! See! Drinks will be drunk from bowls with mini-umbrellas, comics will surely be discussed, and terrifying tropical shirts will be unleashed!
If comic books can regularly save the world, then perhaps they can save the Tonga Room too!
More Tonga Room coverage to come. Images via isotopecomics.com. Isotope's blog post regarding the crawl is after the jump.
Via isotopecomics.com:
This year our featured special guest host is Darick Robertson, artist of The Boys and Transmetropolitan!
We'll be starting out early meeting up at 111 Minna for the CBLDF party w/ our pal Dave Johnson and then kicking off the tour in high style with a first tiki stop at the amazing Tonga Room at 9pm. Judging by the folks who we've spoken to about this event already I have a feeling this will be the best Tiki Tour ever!
We've been hosting semi-annual secret-route tours of San Francisco's tiki bars since 2001 but don't want you to feel left out, so for those among you who have yet to experience one of the Isotope's famous tiki tours hosted by some of the coolest cats in the comic industry, feel free to check out these great photos from the legendary 2006 tiki bar madness tour or video from our 2007 tour with comic author Adam Beechen and our friends at iFanboy!