-- RIP: Chronicle cartoonist Phil Frank dies. [Chron] more ›

Comics 4 Comix: Have you ever been to the Cartoon Art Museum? Neither have we. Head there tonight for a great cause. An overlooked gem in San Francisco, the Cartoon Art Museum is having its annual fundraiser and silent art auction, starting tonight at 7 pm. Come bid on original comic strip art from both local and national cartoonists, including including Dan Piraro (Bizarro), Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows), Phil Frank (Farley), Lalo Alcaraz (La Cucaracha), and Lynn Johnston (For Better or For Worse). On the stage will be a slew of stand-up comics, including Michael Meehan and Kurt Weitzman. Thirsty Bear and True Sake provide the libations and Rainbow, Whole Foods, and Canton Dim Sum are among the suppliers of snacks. Tickets are $20 and all proceeds go to the museum. Cartoon Art Museum, 655 Mission St, SF. more ›

--We missed this yesterday, but it's still awesome. Who's put security cameras in Chris Daly's office? more ›

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You know how there's some comic strips you love (Boondocks, For Better Or For Worse), some comics you hate (we've never liked Rex Morgan, M.D.), and some comics you hate but accidentally get sucked into reading (the shining example of this is Luann)? Well, the Chron announced today they're cancelling one of the strips in that last category for us, Clear Blue Water by Karen Montague-Reyes. We personally never really warmed up to Montague-Reyes's drawing style, or the weird plotlines involving what looked like a gay superhero African-American Republican (that can't be right, can it?), but our eye did inexorably get drawn to the strip every single day (and we do kind of wonder what's going to happen to little autistic Seth). We're also a little sad that one of the rare strips drawn by a woman, and one of the rare strips drawn by a person of color about a multiracial family, is getting the axe. more ›

And here we thought "Emperor Norton" was just a decent indie music label...SF-based cartoonist Phil Frank (perhaps best known for his Farley series in the Chron) is spearheading a campaign to name the new span of the cash-strapped Bay Bridge after the self-declared Emperor Norton I. Frank has so far garnered the backing of a handful of local historians, as well as soon-to-be-elected-Board-President, Supervisor Aaron Peskin (the Board of Supes is set to consider the issue next week). more ›