Jon Adams

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Photo by Nicolas Zurcher at the Baker Street steps

About Jon

Jon is an illustrator and designer who lives with your mom.

His comic Friendship Town appears every Thursday in the San Francisco Chronicle and his Truth Serum comic appears weekly online. Jon has done work for Wired, McSweeney's, LucasFilm, Entertainment Arts, 826 Valencia, and a bunch of comic companies.

http://hisportfolio.com

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Jon's Backstories

  • Vice City
    Michelle Broder Van Dyke
    considers the seven sins of San Francisco
  • Same Look, New Taste
    Isaac Fitzgerald
    takes a load off at Clooney's Pub
  • San Francisco Bay Guardians
    Justin Juul
    patrols the streets with Real Life Super Heroes
  • Know Squat
    Harmon Leon
    shadows anarchists housing homeless in abandoned buildings
  • Lovers Are for San Francisco
    The Bold Italic
    and Jon Adams give tips on localizing Valentine's Day
  • Spell Bound
    Kathleen Alcott
    tries to quit smoking with hypnotherapy
  • Acting Out
    Laura Beck
    gets trained in sketch comedy
  • Clamming Up
    Harmon Leon
    becomes a regular at one of SF’s oldest restaurants
  • Stiff Little Fingers
    Allison Davis
    forms an appreciation for SF’s family-run wax museum
  • Freaks and Geeks
    Sara Faith Alterman
    outs her awkward adolescence at Mortified
  • I Sought Andy Warhol
    Tienlon Ho
    consults SF aquarists about her missing pet
  • Naked Lunch
    Mary Catherine O'Connor
    loses her tan lines on nude beaches
  • Veggie Tales
    Jaimal Yogis
    plants a busy person’s vegetable garden
  • Walk the Plank
    LJ Moore
    uncovers buried ships in downtown SF
  • The Pick-Up Artists
    Michelle Broder Van Dyke
    spends a day in the life of SF cabbies
  • High Spirits
    Nicole Martinelli
    drinks in the city’s longtime passion for Pisco Punch
  • Graphic Novelty
    Jon Adams
    meets some of the characters behind SF's comic book stores
  • Raising the Bar
    Noah Sanders
    revisits his childhood chocolate fantasies
  • Through the Back Door
    Josh R.
    gets a blow-by-blow experience on the set of a gay porn film
  • Watershed Moment
    Matt Baume
    seeks out San Francisco's creeks
  • The Cutting Edge
    N.W. Smith
    searches for straight razor shaves
  • Packing Heat
    Ethan Kanat
    explores gun culture in the far left city of San Francisco
  • Afternoon Delight
    Chris Sabbath
    seeks out SF's best brunch spots
  • Back in the Saddle
    Matt Baume
    learns to stop worrying and love city biking

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