Journalist Shawn Gaynor and artist/musician/novelist Andrew Goldfarb have collaborated to create an informative, well-researched, visually brilliant, and compelling full-page comic strip about sit/lie for the debut print edition of the SF Public Press.  Find out where you can get your copy of this exciting experiment in “ad-free news in the public interest.”  (Note: the SF Public press has taken no official stance on the sit/lie issue.)

You can checkout the full comic at the SF Public Press website, but in order to see it in all its glory and to support the SF Public Press, we suggest you pick up a print copy of the newspaper for $2 at a location near you.

The comic strip is told from the perspective of a real life San Francisco day laborer named Alberto whom Gaynor interviewed for the story.

It explains some of the history of sit/lie laws in San Francisco.

. . and they use photos to report on testimony at City Hall hearings.

Haight-Ashbury neighbors — including none other than our dear friend Gabriel Haaland (!) and Sit/Lie proponent Arthur Evans — star in one of the frames. Gabriel wins, of course!

We’re super excited about this and believe it can serve as a great tool to educate the public on the sit/lie issue. Please help spread this around by emailing your friends and sharing this post on facebook, twitter, etc. by simply clicking on the icons right below this text.