Mission Mission

This is Grant. He draws bats and shit! His show “Oew Nld” opens at Tartine tomorrow night (I’ll be photographing it, come after nine, brave the throngs of mean art bros and buy me birthday pie).

More images on Tartine’s Flickr.

-Mollie C

Mission Comics and Art (3520 20th St.) owner Leef Smith brings us the news:

“FYI – I’m soft-opening tomorrow Wednesday 9/2 12pm, and will have new comics. Come by and check it out, that is if you not in Morocco or something. I’m be open till at least 8pm.”

Previously on Mission Mission:

• Dorks rule

We Built This City has the scoop here.

Photo by Amor de Cosmos.

Somebody named Katie F. who we met at a party last weekend just spotted this handsome scene on Dolores between 19th and 20th. Sure there is no gun slinging going on, but you can tell by the look in his eyes: He’s a gun slinger.

Previously:

Yay Kittens!

Two Very Different Cats

I always knew that art galleries were evil because artists are hippies that vote for democrats, but I never knew that they are one of the reasons the Mission is being gentrified:

Editor – I celebrate the representation of art in all its forms, whether it be in museums, on public walls or in galleries (“Artists take it to the street (Valencia),” Aug. 22). However, it should be noted that it is often the artists and gallery owners who move into low-rent neighborhoods who plant the seeds of gentrification. While the growing number of galleries in the Mission District may be engaging a new audience, high-rent condominiums are being built only blocks away, where bakeries, grocery stores and community centers used to stand. I fear the day when the Mission will have to take a new name because the Latino residents and businesses can no longer afford to stay in the neighborhood they worked so hard to build.

- Rachel Rosenberg, San Francisco

(link)

Maybe people disagree with me, but I think the neighborhood could still keep the name “Mission” even if there were no Latinos, given that it was the Mission back when it was mostly Irish and German.  Oh, and Ohlone slaves initially built the Mission.  Sorry, Rachel.

(hat tip Mission Loc@l)

EPA and around the bay has posted another great collection of sticker art.

Are you following EPA yet?  You should.  (link)

Westbymidwest claims this is in the Mission District and we’re just going to have to take his word for it. (link)

Artist Rio Yanez just finished a new mural outside Galeria de la Raza. It’s called Ghetto Frida’s Mission Memories and look, it looks great on video.

(link)

Previously (and be sure to peruse the comments sections for further remembrances of some of the things Frida remembers):

Mission Flashback 1975

Mission Flashback 1989

Laura brings us news that a new comic book store is opening soon on 20th and San Carlos:

“New store at 3520 20th.  Mission Comics and Art.  Talked to owner Leef.  Super nice. Opens in less than a month! Real comic shop in the Mission! Dorks rule!”

Dorks do rule.  (Mission Comics and Art)