--Gavin Newsom had another Project Homeless Connect event. Reader Elihuh2001 sends along this picture, along with the note that Gavin refused the free coffee provided, in favor of a more corporate flair. more ›

Open wide! (At the orifice of your choosing.) This Friday ... 7pm ... A Different Light (489 Castro St. at 18th St.): a book signing by local comic artists Justin Hall, Steve MacIsaac, and Andy Hartzell. Justin, along with Dave Davenport, is one of the smutty minds behind "Hard to Swallow," a periodic anthology of phalluses and gooey fluids. (He also writes a non-pr0nish series called "Swallowing a Cobra's Heart and Other True Travel Tales.") Issue two of "HtS" is just coming out now, as well as , a collection of gay zine comics spanning the last 10 years. more ›

There must be something in the air, because this is the week of weeks for comic book artists to make appearances in SF. On Friday, Justin Hall & friends are doing a book signing at A Different Light (we'll be posting more details about that on Thursday) ... and on Wednesday, Gene Luen Yang, local author of the awesome , is throwing a launch celebration at Isotope on Wednesday at 7pm. more ›

We kinda suspect that the debauchery seen in "Hard to Swallow" -- orgies of muscular men, fluid-spurting phalluses, sexual grave desecrations, gay hookers fondly remembering tricks of yore -- are represetative of how middle-America sees San Francisco, if not Nancy Pelosi's office. Compiled by local artists Justin Hall and Dave Davenport, "HtS" pretty much defines NSFW -- the cover promises "HOT ape-on-pirate action," and when we opened it, the first line of dialogue our eye caught on was "Now that's a f**king load! A little salty, maybe, but you have been floating at sea." We flipped a few pages and read, "muscled armpit! my favorite flavor!" ... then flipped again and landed on "now let's get down to some serious f**king." And that's when we quietly closed the book, our hands shaky and sweating, shifted uncomfortably in our pew, and decided to read the rest AFTER Mass had concluded. more ›

Here at SFist HQ, we were excited when we heard that Friend of SFist Eddie was going to go ahead with his plan (first rumored at SXSW) to give WebZine a kick start. In the last few months we've gotten drunk at many meetings, put together a panel, traded buttloads of email and spent most of our time thinking about the parties (that's how roll). more ›