{"id":1425,"date":"2013-05-13T00:24:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T05:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2013-05-13T00:36:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T05:36:26","slug":"san-franciscos-cartoon-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2013\/05\/san-franciscos-cartoon-art-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

During mid-April, I got a chance to go to San Francisco for a few days (yeah I know, I’m a little late relaying the info). While there, I found out the hotel I was staying at was very close to the Cartoon Art Museum<\/a>. So naturally, I made sure to check it out.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I wasn’t overly impressed – however, after thinking about it since I went, I’m pretty sure a lot of that can be attributed to me being spoiled with Chicago’s Museums. It did feel like many genres were left out; and they seemed to focus more on comics than animation. Still, there were some cool pieces. Below are two pieces I liked by comic book writer\/ illustrator Sam Kieth.<\/p>\n

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I like most drawing of The Joker, but this one was particularly sweet and clearly needs to be followed by:<\/p>\n

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Kieth has created his own comics but has also been involved with DC properties. With this artwork, I am curious to check out the five issue Batman series he wrote and drew.<\/p>\n

The museum rotates and changes out exhibits periodically. At the time of my visit, they did have a good portion of space dedicated to Chuck Jones, which was pretty cool. There was a great deal of artwork by him – in various steps of production:<\/p>\n

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The Chuck Jones exhibit was by far the most informative. Among other things, I learned that he directed the TV adaption to How The Grinch Stole Christmas! – a personal favorite of mine.<\/p>\n

Overall, the museum was worth the few bucks I shelled out… but I wouldn’t recommend having incredibly high expectations. Although, I’m willing to bet your experience is dependent upon when you go. If they have a really great exhibit when you’re there, then it will be that much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During mid-April, I got a chance to go to San Francisco for a few days (yeah I know, I’m a little late relaying the info). While there, I found out the hotel I was staying at was very close to the Cartoon Art Museum. So naturally, I made sure to check it out. To be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,41,99],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-batman","tag-comics","tag-joker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}