Thank you to Mission Comics and Art for becoming a Mission Local business member. You can see its page and news on Mission Local here and a list of our business members here.
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I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.
As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.
As founder and an editor at ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.
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I am a weekly customer of Mission Comics & Art and really enjoy Leef Smith’s vast knowledge and low key folksy approach to selling comics. If Leef does not have what you want, he can either try to find it or he may direct you to another shop. I am coming by today.