Lit Crawl San Francisco 2026: Full Schedule

One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, Lit Crawl San Francisco is a massive, one-night literary pub crawl through San Francisco’s Mission District on Saturday, October 25th from 5:00-9:00pm. Join us to cap off another great festival, and don’t miss out on the afterparty at Drawing Room Annex!

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5:00pm PDT

CCA Comics Live!

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

Artists' Television Access

Join us for an entertaining evening of live comics readings by an incredible lineup of professors and alumni of the California College of the Arts BFA and MFA in Comics programs. Come see comics from old faves and new voices. CCA may be going away but we’re here to stay!

Authors & Performers

Maia Kobabe

Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir) is the author of GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR (2019), BREATHE: JOURNEYS TO HEALTHY BINDING (2024) with Dr Sarah Peitzmeier, and OPTING OUT (2026) with Swati "Lucky" Srikumar. In eir free time, Maia practices taekwondo, studies Spanish, makes zines, and fights cen... Read More →

Eli Bishop

Eli is a Midwest/East Coast hybrid who has lived in SF for 23 years and has been trying to make comics for a little longer than that. He often appears on stage with the San Francisco Neo-Futurists. There's probably a lot of cat fur on him.

Justin Hall

Justin Hall is an award-winning comic creator, educator, and scholar. He is the first Fulbright Scholar of Comics, a professor of comics at CCA, a curator of international museum and gallery shows of comics art, and the creator behind titles such as No Straight Lines, Theater of Terror... Read More →

Cassy Lee

Reference Librarian (Art and Graphic Novels Subject Liaison team), City College of San Francisco

Cassy is a librarian, comics artist, and educator who graduated from the CCA MFA Comics program in 2025. She has been working on her graphic novel memoir Beyond the Fences and teaching comics, zines, and graphic medicine workshops.

Cynta Camilia | Kanak-Kanak Press

Cynta Camilia, comic artist and illustrator from Malaysia, based in Oakland whose work dives deep into identity, memory, and the cosmic unknown. Through zines, comics, risograph prints, stickers, and art books, Cynta weaves powerful narratives rooted in their Malaysian heritage, trans/nonbinary... Read More →

Mel Gillman

Mel Gillman is a trans graphic novelist and colored pencil artist. They are the author of several graphic novels, including As the Crow Flies, Stage Dreams, Other Ever Afters, and The Goblin Throne. Their work has won numerous awards, including a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal... Read More →

Vicco Sebes

Vicco Sebes is a cartoonist and educator creating comics about trans revenge and lesbian adventures. Their comics are influenced by their background in filmmaking, their love of music, and their commitment to using supernatural storytelling to process every emotion. You can find them... Read More →

Dimitrea Tokunbo

Dimitrea Tokunbo is a Black sexagenarian, advocate, ally, cisgender, Covid cautious femme with roots in Nigeria. As a cartoonist who loves combining the musicality of language with her fascination for history, Tokunbo is working on a graphic hybrid memoir that blends a biography of... Read More →

Elle Lim-Chan

Elle Lim-Chan (aka phishr_price) is a transfemme, nonbinary, Hakka artist with a MFA in Comics from CCA. Her illustration and comics practice focuses on honoring idiosyncratic moments of nonbinary femme people. Her illustrative work combines gestural pencil with digital collage, giving... Read More →

Mike Rossi

Mike Rossi is a cartoonist, illustrator and lover of cheese based in SF. His comics work is mostly memoir and slice-of-life. While he is seeking a home for his graphic memoir, Branches, he recently finished Volume 1 of his second book, Gela, the story of how two dog people adopted... Read More →

Kristen Zimmerman

Kristen Lynn Zimmerman is an author and illustrator of work rooted in the magic - and messiness - of being human. She create comics, graphic novels, and visual stories that explore chosen family and how to restore our sense of belonging even after great ruptures. She lives in Oakland... Read More →

Pouya Alaee

Pouya is a transmac writer and comic artist from Iran, currently residing in South Bay. They've made comics with organizations such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium, UC Santa Cruz Institute for Transformation and UC Irvine. Their personal work often involves the intersectionality of queer... Read More →

Andy Warner

Andy Warner is author of six books about everything from utopias to revolutions to plant domestication. His work has been published widely, including by the United Nations, and translated into Russian, Chinese, Korean, Polish, Greek, French, Czech and Spanish. He teaches at CCa, Stanford... Read More →

Malika Lyons

M. Lions got her MFA in Comics from CCA in 2025. She has performed live readings as part of the HellaComix series put on by East Bay BiPoc Cartoonists. She is inspired by the political and the personal, and is currently working on her longform comic series titled Frightful Height... Read More →

Yana Ramoso

Yana Ramoso is an alien hybrid attempting to be human through comics by using their self introspective thoughts, emotions, and nostalgia. When Yana isn’t around, they’re hiding in their dreamscape to remind themselves of the stars

Sophie Yanow

Sophie Yanow’s graphic novels include The Contradictions and War of Streets and Houses. She has been published by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Paris Review, and Drawn & Quarterly. She was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, longlisted for the Believer Book Award, and won... Read More →

Sarah Maloney

S. Maloney (they/them) is a queer cartoonist and educator

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 1

Audience All Ages
Genre illustrated storytelling

6:30pm PDT

Palabras del Pueblo: Cultura pa' la Raza

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

Palabras del Pueblo brings its Raza-centered writing workshop to the Mission for a reading by instructors and participants working in fiction, poetry, comics, and radical writing. Palabras is about the community speaking to itself, arming creators with knowledge and cultura, and encouraging writers. The work reflects memory, struggle, and imagination shaped in community.

Authors & Performers

Ronnie Dukes

Ronnie Dukes is an international award-winning illustrator and CCO of DUKEScomics, an independent publisher and IBPA Innovative Voices fellow. Dukes has exhibited at international comic conventions, including Tokyo Comic Con, Leipzig Book Fair and Guadalajara FIL. He’s a featured... Read More →

Dr. Elvira Carrizal-Dukes

Dr. Elvira Carrizal-Dukes is a Xicana narrative designer from the U.S.–Mexico borderlands and C.E.O. of DUKEScomics, an IBPA Innovative Voices publisher. She’s an International Latino Book Awards author of graphic novel Daizee & the Dukes of Chuco: Chuco–Juárez World Rally... Read More →

Juan G. Berumen

Juan G. Berumen is an East Oakland-based writer, director, educator, and actor who sees storytelling as a vehicle for self-expression, community empowerment, and social transformation. Shaped by his experience growing up undocumented in the Bay Area, Juan is committed to telling stories... Read More →

Blanca Torres

Blanca Torres grew up on the dry, eastern side of Washington state. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and earned a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from Mills College. She has worked as a reporter for several major newspapers and is now an award-winning producer and reporter... Read More →

Osmani R. Ochoa

Casa Colibri

Osmani R. Ochoa is a queer Mexican-Xicano poet and longtime local and national organizer for immigrant and worker rights. They've recently released their debut chapbook ‘How to Survive an Asthma Attack in a Climate Apocalypse’ with Abode Press.

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 2

Genre latine readings, fiction, poetry, illustrated storytelling

5:00pm PDT

6:30pm PDT

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