-- RIP: Chronicle cartoonist Phil Frank dies. [Chron] -- Busted water pipe downtown = Bay Bridge entrance difficulties. [ABC 7] -- What a good idea! MUNI cop ride-alongs. (Oh, you know you also love to see fellow riders get busted for no transfer/pass.) [The Snitch] -- Google's crusade for international privacy. Yay, Google! [Examiner] -- Yusuf Bey sexual assault lawsuit settled. [Oakland Tribune] -- US online video popularity soars. [Macworld, via IDG] -- The Cinematic......

SFist Jenna sees you in the funny pages! 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......

--We missed this yesterday, but it's still awesome. Who's put security cameras in Chris Daly's office? --Your SF school board candidates. --More bus-only lanes on Geary, please. --$1 billion for Facebook? --The Albion Hotel in the Mission by Katz's Bagels gets sued. --Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams may go to jail. --A poignant profile of the homeless Asian man shot to death in San Mateo earlier this month. --The man who wrote Celluloid San Francisco......

As if it’s not enough that the re-building of the Bay Bridge has turned into huge spat fight over money and design another spat is possibly brewing over the most important part of the new & improved span- it’s name. This week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a vote saying that the bridge should be named after semi-legendary San Franciscan Emperor Norton, by an 8-2 margin. The resolution calls for officially changing......

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. ...

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......