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James is easily the best dressed guy in the comic bookstore game.  photo from LeftCoastStyle.com

James is easily the best dressed guy in the comic bookstore game. photo from LeftCoastStyle.com

Isotope might be the only 'œComic Book Lounge' in the world and it’s definitely the only one in the City.  Seriously, who thought a comic book store could be so cool?  Unlike most other comic book stores which are generally cluttered and small, Isotope is a big open space, with comfy leather lounge chairs, neat interior design, and a great selection of graphic novels, comics and zines from all over the Bay Area and around the world.  Another unique thing about Isotope is that the staff is doing wonders in regards to the image of a comic book store clerk.  These folks are unpretentious, really cool, and accessible people.  And of course the best thing about Isotope is the man behind the madness, James Sime, the best dressed comic book store owner in the world.  My man only wears suits, including grape colored ones.  If you’re not into comics when you enter Isotope, you will be when you leave.

Isotope Comics
326 Fell @ Gough [Hayes Valley]

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Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart, is a travel writer, poet, TV host, activist, and general shit-stirrer. His website BrokeAssStuart.com is one of the most influential arts & culture sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and his freelance writing has been featured in Lonely Planet, Conde Nast Traveler, The Bold Italic, Geek.com and too many other outlets to remember. His weekly column, Broke-Ass City, appears every other Thursday in the San Francisco Examiner. Stuart’s writing has been translated into four languages. In 2011 Stuart created and hosted the travel show Young, Broke, and Beautiful on IFC and in 2015 he ran for Mayor of San Francisco and got nearly 20k votes.

He's been called "an Underground legend": SF Chronicle, "an SF cult hero":SF Bay Guardian, and "the chief of cheap": Time Out New York.