Cartoon Art Museum

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  Sword, Meet Pen

  By Chris Torres | Wed, January 25, 2012

  Born to a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna, Lily Renée had her first work displayed in a gallery at age 6. Following up on this success, Lily’s mother submitted a photograph by the gifted child to a contest where the first prize was a showbiz contr... More >

• Comic Artist Lily Renee Was Also Expert in the Art of Escape

  By Chris Torres | Wed, January 25, 2012

  ​Trina Robbins returns to San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum this week to discuss another comic book heroine -- not a fictional character, mind you, but a woman who was crucial in comics in the More >

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  Female Fury

  By Silke Tudor | Wed, November 16, 2011

  Like Dale Messick, whose creation Brenda Starr, Reporter ran from 1940 to January of this year, June Tarpé Mills understood that having an identifiably feminine name would work against her in the world of adventure comics. So she dropped June, bec... More >

• Cartoonist Bill Plympton Talks About Idiots and Angels and Finding Success on His Own Terms

  By Gregg Rickman | Mon, July 25, 2011

  For three and a half decades cartoonist Bill Plympton has astonished audiences with his rapidly mutating animated films. In works like Your Face (1987) and 25 Ways to Quit Smoking, (1989) human featur More >

• Mars Is a Long Way from Bloom County: Berkeley Breathed at the Cartoon Art Museum

  By Stephanie Orma | Tue, February 15, 2011

  On Your Lunch Break SF Weekly recommends exhibitions and locations around San Francisco to check out when you have half an hour to spare. It's unusual -- but not unthinkable -- for an artist to retir More >

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  CharlesD1

  | Sat, July 18, 2009

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  sfweeklybestof

  | Wed, May 06, 2009

  To the uninitiated, the Cartoon Art Museum has a musty ring to it, pointing toward Hanna-Barbera cels and Krazy Kat. It does have that, but it far from ignores the new tribes of graphic novelists and young comics artists who continually reinvent the form for new generations. Like any great museum, it doesn't ignore the city that surrounds it. Over the past year, the Small Press Spotlight, featuring exhibits that highlight innovators in alternative and small-press comics, has welcomed locals like Joey Sayers (Teen Power), Hellen Jo (Paralysis), and DC legend Creig Flessel. The Cartoonist-in-Residence program has run a similar path, installing Paul Madonna, Keith Knight, Shaenon K. Garrity (Narbonic), David Crosland (Puffed), and Justin Hall (True Travel Tales). It was no slouch with the national scene in 2007, either, offering expansive tributes to Mary Blair (one of the first female Disney artists) and Edward Gorey's work for the Broadway production of Dracula.

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