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Take a zany tour down San Francisco’s Mission District with a “Comic Book Guide to the Mission”. Collected and Edited by comic book enthusiast and critic Lauren Davis, this funny, raw, vivid and sometimes nostalgic anthology might be the best medium yet to describe what “La Mission” is and isn’t. Along the way, we meet “Murray, the Attorney”, who is desperately trying to fit in in the culturally fragmented landscape that surrounds him. Or go bargain hunting at the best thrift stores in the area in “Buy Used, Buy Bulk”. If you get hungry, there is an epic quest for the best taco in the “The Mission Taco” (but be careful with the hot sauce!). You will even be able to find what the Mission hipsters are really up to anyway in “Field Notes from the Hipster Habitat” and how those beautiful Mission murals are brought to life.

If approached with an open mind, this guide will make you think about the Mission District in a whole new way. All of the contributors are local cartoonists, and their stories, sometimes as brief as a sentence or one even image, make this tour well-worth taking.--Ricardo Antoni… (more)