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Current Exhibits
January 24 – February 15, 2009:
The Art of CORALINE
The Cartoon Art Museum proudly presents original works of art from the feature film CORALINE, produced by LAIKA, the Portland-based animation studio owned by Nike co-founder and Chairman Philip H. Knight, and released by Focus Features on February 6, 2009. The exhibition features drawings, storyboards, puppets, sets, costumes and more from this groundbreaking movie, the first ever stop-motion animated film to be shot in 3D. In stop-motion animation, everything seen on screen actually exists in the real world, as opposed to computer-generated animation. This exhibit includes almost 80 pieces from the extraordinary world of Coraline, created by a team of over 300 artists bringing to life the vision of the world’s foremost stop-motion animation director, Henry Selick.
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September 20, 2008 - February 8, 2009: The Totoro Forest Project
The Cartoon Art Museum proudly presents original works of art from The Totoro Forest Project Charity Auction, a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition featuring paintings, illustrations and sculptures from nearly 200 critically acclaimed animators, fine artists, cartoonists and illustrators. All of the art for the exhibition was inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s iconic animated feature film My Neighbor Totoro. The artwork will be auctioned at a fund raising event at Pixar Animation Studios on September 6, 2008, and then exhibited at the Cartoon Art Museum from September 20, 2008 through February 8, 2009. Proceeds from the auction will support The Totoro No Furusato National Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of Japan's Sayama Forest.
The reception took place on Tuesday, December 16, 2008.
About The Totoro no Furusato National Fund:
Sayama Forest is one of the most remarkable urban forests in Japan, located just outside of Tokyo. This forest is said to be the inspiration for legendary animated film My Neighbor Totoro. With Japan's rapid urban development in the 1970s and 1980s, the forest has been diminished to a small fraction of its former self. In 1990, Miyazaki helped set up a national trust, Totoro no Furusato National Fund, to preserve the park and promote awareness of environmental issues.
For more information on this cause and how you can help, please visit http://www.totoroforestproject.org/
The Cartoon Art Museum would like to thank the Japan Foundation of Los Angeles for its support in the promotion of this exhibition.
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Colan: Visions of a Man without Fear
November 15, 2008 - March 15, 2009
Opening Reception:
Thursday, December 4, 2008
with special guests
Gene and Adrienne Colan
The Cartoon Art Museum is honored to celebrate the life and work of cartoonist Gene Colan with a retrospective entitled Colan: Visions of a Man without Fear. This exhibition inlcudes over 40 examples from Colan's long creative career, from his one and only story illustrated for legendary publisher EC Comics in 1952, through his fondly-remembered work for Marvel Comics from the 1960s and 1970s on titles as diverse as Iron Man, Tomb of Dracula and Howard The Duck, to his notable run on DC Comics' Batman in the 1980s, to his more recent efforts, including fan-commissioned illustrations and his beautiful pencil artwork on titles such as Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist, published by Dark Horse Comics.
This exhibition has been assembled by Guest Curator Glen David Gold, author of the novel Carter Beats the Devil and many comics-related essays. An exhibition catalog featuring high-quality reproductions of Colan's artwork and essays from many of his most notable collaborators, including writers Stan Lee, Marv Wolfman, Roy Thomas and Steve Englehart, will be available at the Cartoon Art Museum prior to the exhibition's opening reception on December 4, 2008.
About Gene Colan:
One of mainstream comics' most significant artists, Gene Colan was born in New York in 1926 and studied at the Art Students League of New York under illustrator Frank Riley and surrealistic Japanese painter Kuniashi. After a stint in the army, Colan's official career in comics began in 1944 at Fiction House and Timely. He has worked over the last 60 + years at almost every major publisher, including EC, Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Bongo and Archie. His most memorable work includes unsurpassed runs on Daredevil, Iron Man, Sub-Mariner, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Dr. Strange, Tomb of Dracula and Howard the Duck, not to mention inspired depictions of Conan, Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman.
Beginning in the 1980s, Gene took on more varied and unusual work, including Nathaniel Dusk, Ragamuffins, The Spider (a graphic novel), Stewart the Rat, and Michael Chabon's The Escapist. Colan has taught at both the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Colan is the recipient of a Shazam Award, two Eagle awards and in 2005 was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame.
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For more information on upcoming events and exhibitions, please visit our blog:
cartoonart.livejournal.com
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Saturday, January 10, 2009, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Joint Member Day
On Saturday, January 10th, eight cultural institutions in the San Francisco area are teaming up to offer their members reciprocal admission and gallery tours. Participating institutions are the Asian Art Museum, Cartoon Art Museum, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Museum of the African Diaspora, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, SF Camerawork, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. All participating museums will be offering free admission to two people per a membership.
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin St (Civic Center)
San Francisco CA 94102
10 am - 5 pm
www.asianart.org/
Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission St
San Francisco CA 94105
11 am - 5 pm
www.cartoonart.org
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission St
San Francisco CA 94103
11 am - 5:30 pm
www.thecjm.org
Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission St
San Francisco CA 94105
11 am - 6 pm
www.moadsf.org
Museum of Craft and Folk Art
51 Yerba Buena Ln
San Francisco CA 94103
11am - 5 pm
www.mocfa.org
SF Camerawork
657 Mission St 2nd Floor
San Francisco CA 94105-4104
12 pm - 5 pm
www.sfcamerawork.org
SFMOMA
151 Third St
San Francisco CA 94103
11 am - 5:45 pm
www.sfmoma.org
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St
San Francisco CA 94103
12 pm - 5 pm
www.ybca.org
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
11:00 am - 4:00 pm:
DCYF’s San Francisco Family Free Day
For more information go to the SF Kids website.
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The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to co-present a pair of events in collaboration with:
2009 SF Sketchfest
Sunday with Moral Orel
Sunday, January 18, 2009 at the Eureka Theatre
Featuring Dino Stamatopoulos and Scott Adsit
Cartoon Dump
Saturday, January 31 at the Eureka Theatre
Featuring Frank Conniff, Andy Kindler and
Mary Lynn Rajskub
Tickets are available through the SF Sketchfest website, http://www.sfsketchfest.com
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Sunday, January 25, 2009,
1:00-4:00pm:
Golden Gate Comics Workshop
In conjunction with the Golden City Comics poster series about The Mighty Defender and Love’s Unsung Hero installed on Market Street
Free and open to the public
The San Francisco Arts Commission, in collaboration with the Cartoon Art Museum, will present a Golden Gate Comics Workshop on Sunday, January 25, 2009 from 1 to 4 PM at the Cartoon Art Museum, located at 655 Mission Street between New Montgomery and 3rd Streets in San Francisco’s South of Market District. The artists Briana Miller and Thien Pham will present demonstrations of comic book techniques and a hands-on silk screen workshop that is open to the public and free of charge.
Artists Miller and Pham set out to create a comic book story that can be read in both directions, so that pedestrians can read the story regardless of the directionthey are walking on Market Street. Both the first and the sixth posters were designed as comic book covers, each with a different title: the first poster begins a story titled Love’s Unsung Hero and the sixth poster begins a story titled The Mighty Defender . The stories, which include a hero, a sweet romance, and an encounter with dastardly villains, both unfold in San Francisco with images of the Golden Gate and the Bay Bridges, the Ferry Building, and The Mint.
The artists worked in a style reminiscent of early comic books, with lush colors and carefully drawn details. As there is no written narrative or dialogue, the posters can be understood and enjoyed by people of any age and any cultural background.
Both artists work in comics, illustration, and design, and both teach computer arts and drawing, and Briana also teaches photography, at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland. They have previously collaborated on design work for Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco, the Oakland Magazine, and Care Package T-shirts.
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Gene Colan:
Exhibition Catalog
Currently on sale in the bookstore
Full-color Exhibition Catalog
With Essays by Stan Lee, Cy Voris (Kung Fu Panda), Glen David Gold (Carter Beats the Devil), Gene Colan and More!
Standard edition: $17.95
Limited Autographed Bookplate edition: $50.00
Please e-mail bookstore@cartoonart.org to order your copy today.
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Bookstore Discount Days:
10% off all merchandise (with the exception of out of print and special signed editions) every Wednesday!
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Ryan Claytor
Small Press Spotlight
Featuring: Ryan Claytor
December 13, 2008 – March 8, 2009
Ryan Claytor is a comics artist and teacher living in Lansing, Michigan. In 2007, he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from San Diego State University with an emphasis in multimedia, researching autobiography in comics. Claytor's achievements have included a Cartoonist-in-Residence position at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, California, visiting lecturerships at the Dallas Museum of Art and Michigan State University and an internship with Marvel Comics in New York City.
Claytor is most widely known for his self-published, autobiographical, comic book series And Then One Day. Although the series has undergone several format changes and incarnations since its inception in 2004, And Then One Day readers are consistently treated with Claytor’s thoughtful and entertaining personal anecdotes immaculately packaged with a designer’s eye for production detail. Most recently, in the summer of 2008, he released a republication of his Master's Thesis on autobiography in comics entitled Concatenations.
For more information about Ryan Claytor or any of his work, visit his website, www.ElephantEater.com.
About the Small Press Spotlight:
San Francisco has been a hotbed of innovative, groundbreaking comic art
since the late 1800s with the advent of the modern comic strip.
In the1960s, the Bay Area gained further notoriety when
cartoonists like Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, S. Clay Wilson and
Trina Robbins launched the underground comix movement from San
Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. Today, some of the biggest names
in alternative and small-press comics hail from the Bay Area, and the
Cartoon Art Museum's Small Press Spotlight will focus on these talented
individuals.
The Small Press Spotlight is funded in part by The Zellerbach Family
Foundation and The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.
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