The 20th Annual Harvey Awards (named for Harvey Kurtzman, genius cartoonist, founder of MAD Magazine, and lont-time Playboy contributor to boot) were announced this weekend at the Baltimore Comic Con. According to comics news site Newsarama, local cartoonist Keith Knight won in the panel strip category! more ›

The Alternative Press Expo (or APE) was this past weekend at the Concourse here in San Francisco. The show, which is put on yearly by Comic-Con International, features indy and small press creators of zines, comic books, mini-comics, and more. After getting Larry Young's help to kick off our coverage, we attended on Saturday. We met so many cool people and saw so much neat stuff that we're breaking our experience into several posts. First up: the funny stuff. more ›

Hey, remember that time all those SFPD cops robbed a bank at Market & Sansome while sleepwalking? Oh wait that didn't really happen, it's just one of the plot points of "Less Than Hero," a comic book by Jason McNamara and Tony Talbert, set right here in our own back yard and pointed out to us by the folks at Isotope Comics. Concerning itself primarily with a failed dot-com kid who tries to kill himself, an investment banker with the power to control peoples' sleep patterns, and a cult based in the Sunset, the biggest kick you might get out of the story is recognizing an intersection or local low-rent celebrity on its pages. If your favorite thing about SF is its grit and rough edges, this is a book for you -- the art reminds us of something we might see in vintage , in that grotesque/realistic, Mary-Worth-gone-wrong sort of style, and the dialogue is unadorned. The lightning-fast pace of the books match the locale in which they're set, and even though that can cause some confusion, it's a confusion to which we, as SF residents, have grown accustomed. more ›