A new Appeal comic — this week, the recent rash of murders across the city. There’s been a lot!

I decided to tackle MUNI in my comic for the SF Appeal this week.

I was already sketching the layout when the K train hit that woman.

You can see all three parts of my cartoon year in review over at the SF Appeal, for whom I cartoon on the weekly. There was going to be a fourth but my arm is killing me this week, so we decided to spike it. Here’s to less tendinitis and more comics for the rest of 2011!

I did a little thing for the Awl’s year-end coverage about earthquakes, and how they are coming for us. An expert has since informed me that my fault infographic is marginally screwy — I made a copyediting error in my late-night rush to file. This is where I’d make some quip about blogs and fact-checking, but instead I hope you’ll enjoy the thing nonetheless.

two through four to come later this week

New comic for the SF Appeal, this time on California’s Prop H8. I enjoyed drawing those grave-dancers.

chapter one
chapter two
chapter three
chapter four
chapter five
chapter six
chapter seven
chapter eight
chapter nine
chapter ten
chapter eleven
chapter twelve

(start at the beginning)

This is my first weekly cartoon for my new series at the SF Appeal. San Francisco really hates the poors!

For those of you waiting on a Nine Gallons update, my apologies: the last few pages will be up Monday, plus stay tuned for some pages from the second installment (out now from Microcosm).

The SF Public Press newspaper came out on Thursday and it looks great — I’m very happy with how the graphic turned out, especially since it is so freaking huge. Really, it’s such a delight to see my art blown up to broadsheet size, and with very nice four-color registration to boot.

You can buy the paper, ad-free and full of solid local investigative reporting, for just $2, at any of these Bay Area book stores and newsstands.

The only problem is that I am going to be paid about $6/hour for the work I put into it (I’m splitting the take 50-50 with my collaborator).

I used Spot.Us to fund my McSweeney’s-killed Mid-Market story back in March with some excellent results. But this round of fundraising has been much tougher going, and I’m left wondering why. I have a few theories, but what I’m most afraid of is that journalism people don’t like funny pictures in their newspapers. But you’re reading this blog, so surely you don’t agree with that nonsense.

So no, I’m not asking for donations, because that feels weird — but I don’t have qualms about asking you to give your email address to a reputable non-profit and spend less than one minute filling out a survey that will result in four free dollars for me.

We have just a couple days and $250 left. Seriously, please just do it already, because this is getting embarrassing.