Dave Eggers’ Once Upon a School and 826 National
October 8, 2009
In 2002, 826 Valencia was founded by author Dave Eggers and teacher NÃnive Calegari in the Mission District of San Francisco. 826 Valencia began as a storefront for McSweeney’s with a free tutoring center for area students, and… a pirate store in order to appease local zoning ordinances. 826 National has since blossomed into more than a half dozen affiliates in the United States.
This excellent and amusing (mopheads!) video from TED in 2008 pretty much explains it all.
Bonus points for the 826 Valencia facade done by graphic artist-from-another-planet Chris Ware. Brosef K owns all of Chris Ware’s graphic novels in first printing, bitches.
