One of the more special places in San Francisco is the Cartoon Art Museum located at Mission Street. This museum was one of the places on the official itinerary, so after I met up with my group of students on Sunday afternoon, and headed towards it.
Funnily, even though the museum is just a 15 minutes from my hotel according to Google Maps, finding the actual place was a lot harder. I found the street easily enough, but the museum doesn’t stand as a unique or separate block or building, so we passed it on the first time without realizing it.
Entrance to the museum was a USD6, and we were warmly greeted at the reception who did the ticketing and also asked us politely to check in our bags. There was an artist near the reception area drawing panels of a comic, and he took the time too to explain the process of rendering the artwork in modern comic books these days.
The highlight of the visit was the Watchmen exhibits, and in short, they were just amazing. Besides the life-sized character exhibits, the walls of the exhibition room was lined with framed original artwork by Dave Gibbons – the artist for the graphic novel – and these included conceptual art from both the novel and the film, the black and white original drawings in each page of the book, and collector memorabilia, like apparatus and items used by the novel’s characters, and newspaper cuttings. Quite a treat!
The exhibition is time-limited though and synchronized with the release of the movie recently. But persons who love the graphic novel and/or film and happen to be in the vicinity should drop by to visit the museum.:)
More pictures of the Cartoon Art Museum vist here.:)
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