Arts & Entertainment SFist Looks With Dread to the East Replace Minas Morgul with the Moscone Center, the Witch King with Kevin Smith, and put a "d" in front of "orcs," and you've got WonderCon 2006. It's coming this weekend, and you can
Arts & Entertainment The Existential Adventures of the Superfisters Before we forget to mention: Grant Morrison, superheroic comic creator extraordinaire, will be in town at Isotope Comics on Friday, February 10th. Do. Not. Miss. This. The REAL comic news this week, though,
Arts & Entertainment The Ambitious Adventures of the Superfisters In a collaboration with (appropriately) Slave Labor Graphics, Disney has started releasing a series of comics inspired by the Haunted Mansion attraction, and the result is, what a relief, none too shabby. Each
Arts & Entertainment The Hastily Assembled Adventures of the Superfisters We also enjoyed the genre-experimentation of "Doc Frankenstein," a series of books set in a universe in which Frankenstein's monster survived and evolved into a mercenary, a liberal activist, and an enemy of
Arts & Entertainment The Affectionate Adventures of the SuperFisters "Loveless" (not to be confused with the Anime series of the same name) is a romance, too, of sorts; set in the post-Civil War south, it's the story of a former Confederate soldier
Arts & Entertainment The Semimystical Adventures of the Superfisters Okay, we're sorry, but if you're not totally in love with we're going to have to fight you. Recommended highly by the froods at Isotope Comics as well as by us, It's the
Arts & Entertainment The Holistic Adventures of the SuperFisters Next up on our reading list: , by Doug TenNapel, the guy who created Earthworm Jim. His new book is about a scientist exiled to his hometown to study supernatural phenomena. But what's it
Arts & Entertainment And Now For A Bit Of Culture A burgled cache of vintage erotica, produced by Adolf himself, is the Maguffin that gets the ball rolling in "Desolation Jones," a series of comix by Warren Ellis and J. H. Williams III.
Arts & Entertainment An Excuse To Read Some Funnybooks--Al's Comics In The Mission In Trouble Recently Al's Comics has run into a bit of financial trouble, it involves landlords, tax collectors, zap gun wielding lizard men from another dimension, the city; in short, the usual suspects. He could
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jason Shiga Ahh, the allure of the world wide web. How well SFist remembers those first months out of college, working a real job. While we were being trained we had an inordinate amount of
Arts & Entertainment The Incendiary Adventures of the SuperFisters (Prologue) It was a day like any other, we recall, when Isotope Comics suddenly fell into our lap -- and then, in a blur of capes and shotguns, we were off on the wildest
Arts & Entertainment The 2nd Annual George Bush Going Away Party This Saturday night is the 2nd Annual George Bush Going Away Party: An Evening of Political Comedy. The first one was held about this time last year in an attempt to raise money
SF News Interview: Hellen Jo When she’s not stuck in San Francisco because of BART’s pathetic nocturnal schedule, Hellen is the cellist for local musical favorites, Scrabbel, and the artistic force behind Komisches Buch (that's German
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Niffer Desmond How did you get into puppet making? Actually that’s an odd story. When living in Santa Cruz I used to come up to SF with my friend Caitlyn for good times. Occasionally
Arts & Entertainment SFist Does the San Diego Comic-Con SFist attended the 36th San Diego Comic-Con International (SDCC) this past weekend. Last year's SDCC drew almost 100,000 attendees; after trying to negotiate the crowds, we can't see how there could have
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Sufjan Stevens "What? This isn't the Beck show?" we heard a guy ahead of us in line cry out in the Great American ticket line last night. Nope, the sold-out show was for quirky folkster
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Laughing Ha! Hee! Yeah, we need a laugh. Who doesn't? And we don't mean the normal April Fool's Day prankish jokes either. We want belly laughs. So we're looking towards the 7th Annual Funny
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Sorceress of the New Piano The crowd at the Castro Sunday night, at the Asian-Am film fest's centerpiece presentation for Evans Chan's documentary was about one-third new music aficionados, one-third Asians who'd played piano in the past, and
Arts & Entertainment S'Wonderful WonderCon has come! That's right, Northern California's answer to Comic-Con is coming to the Moscone Center this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. This event is not just about comics, folks. It's about all the
Arts & Entertainment Lose Those Extra Pounds: Laugh Your Ass Off Friend of SFist and Bay Blogger Alex Blagg doesn't need us anymore. Sniff. His shows at the comedy club 50 Mason have been written up in the Chronicle, so he reports "[T]he
Arts & Entertainment We Wonder, Wonder Why The WonderCon Falls In case there was any doubt, we're all a bunch of dorkus malorkusses over here, which is why we're so giddy about the upcoming WonderCon 2005 at the Moscone in February. (Hipsters too
Arts & Entertainment Get Drawn By An Ape Looking for a unique gift for your favorite music lover? Send a photo of them to local label Birdman Records to "Get Drawn By An Ape". If you're lucky enough to get chosen,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads Addendum: Author Events SFist enjoys going to literary events for a number of reasons, the least of which being that being at an actual book signing or reading makes us realize that these author are "Just
SF News Clear Blue Water Act 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
