Mission Comics & Art

Top choice in The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill


Heads will roll, fists will fly and furious vengeance will be wreaked inside this mild-mannered shop stocking big-name and indie comics. Staff picks range from marquee (Walking Dead, Star Wars) to niche (Snotgirl, Head Lopper), and artists headlining signings and gallery shows here have included Supergirl writer Mariko Tamaki, Ancestor surrealist artist Matt Sheean and New Yorker constructivist cartoonist Roman Muradov.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill attractions

1. Incline Gallery

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Ramp up your art collection at Incline, a sloping gallery at the rear of an ex-mortuary where bodies were once transported for embalming. Today this is…

2. 826 Valencia

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Avast, ye scurvy scallywags! If ye be shipwrecked without yer eye patch or McSweeney's literary anthology, lay down ye doubloons and claim yer booty at…

3. Clarion Alley

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The Mission District has a long history of street art and muralismo – an oft-political school of public art prevalent throughout South and Central America…

4. Women's Building

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A renowned and beloved Mission landmark since 1979, the nation's first women-owned-and-operated community center is festooned with one of the neighborhood…

5. Dearborn Community Garden

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Welcome to paradise in a parking lot. When the local Pepsi bottling plant closed in the 1970s, neighbors wouldn't let urban blight take over the block –…

6. Creativity Explored

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Brave new worlds are captured in celebrated artworks destined for museum retrospectives, international shows and even Marc Jacobs handbags and CB2…

7. Aesthetic Union

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Upgrade from kitten posters to frame-worthy original SF artworks hand-printed in this working printmakers' studio. Watch prints pulled from a vintage…

8. Dolores Park

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Welcome to San Francisco's sunny side, the land of street ball and Mayan-pyramid playgrounds, semiprofessional tanning and taco picnics. Although the…