Cartoon Art Museum

Where
655 Mission St, San Francisco , CA
Call
+1 415.227.8666
Contact
Email
Web
http://www.cartoonart.org/
Tags
Museums
Hours
Mon (closed)
Tue-Sun (11am-5pm)
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About

In the museum's fifteen plus years of existence it has produced over 90 exhibitions and 20 publications, all focusing on the myriad of cartoon art. The museum's key function is to preserve, document, and exhibition this unique and accessible art form. Through traveling exhibitions and other exhibit related activities such as artist-in-residence/lecture series programs and outreach activities, the museum has taken cartoon art and used it to communicate cultural diversity in the community and the importance of self expression.

Admission: 

$7 – Adults
$5 – Students & Seniors
$3 – Children (ages 6 – 12)
FREE – Children (age 5 & under)

Articles

  • Monsters of Webcomics

    Funny Page Freedom
    08/28/2009, by Ann Taylor

    There is truly no medium that has not been transformed by the freedom and widespread availability of the internet. Music, television, film; even the more traditional media of drawing and painting have...  More »

  • John Porcellino at the Cartoon Art Museum

    Relating To Your Life
    12/16/2005, by Aimee Le Duc

    The Cartoon Art Museum is a rare gem in San Francisco's cultural necklace. It is a traditional looking gallery space set behind a wonderful bookstore, Photo Graphix (formally the Friend's of Photograp...  More »

  • Storming the Clubhouse

    The Hidden History of Woman Comics
    03/02/2003, by Reyhan Harmanci

    Comic books have always been a boys' club. From the bulging muscles of Marvel superheroes to the hyper-sexualized women of R. Crumb, the overwhelming odor of adolescent male fantasy has permeated the ...  More »

  • A-Gorey-Phobia: At the Cartoon Art Museum

    By Melissa Broder
    03/02/2002, by SFS Staff

    The Cartoon Art Museum changes their Gorey at Bay exhibit every three months, presenting Edward Gorey lovers with a perennial buffet. For the rest of the population, a trip to the Cartoon Museum is in...  More »

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