A Massive, Basketball-Court-Sized Map of a Not-Quite-Fantasy World

The very strange Chinese-themed room at the 134-year-old Shotwell's in the Mission District (otherwise a very lovely bar!) I realized in the past two weeks I hadn’t marked the passing of Marjane Satrapi , author of classic Bildungsroman comic Persepolis . Persepolis is a particular favorite of mine, even though I would probably forget to include it on such a list if asked since it’s not a book I…