On Saturday, one day after landing in San Francisco, I led some of the first year Comics MFA students on a tour of some of the best local comic shops. Our first stop was Isotope the Comic Book Lounge, followed by Comix Experience, Whatever (helpfully suggested by James at Isotope), and Mission Comics and Art. According to Google Maps that’s 7km of comics goodness.
On Sunday, I did the comics tour again with some different folks.
This annual trip to the states is my one chance to visit English-language comic shops. It is equal parts thrilling and heartbreaking- thrilling to see all of these books, heartbreaking that I can’t buy them all and bring them back to Korea with me. There’s a lot of great stuff happening in North American comics these days.