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The Cartoon Art Museum (CAM) is a California art museum that specializes in the art of comics and cartoons. It is the only museum in the Western United States dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of all forms of cartoon art.〔("Curating Cartoons (Andrew Farago, Cartoon Art Museum)," ) ''Stanford Arts'' (Jan. 9, 2014).〕 The permanent collection features some 7,000 pieces as of 2015, including original animation cels, comic book pages and sculptures. Until September 2015, the museum was located in the Yerba Buena Gardens cultural district of San Francisco, in the South of Market neighborhood. It is currently seeking a new long-term home. == History == The Museum was founded in 1984 by comic art enthusiasts,〔Tanner, Marcia. "Getting Serious About the Comics," ''San Francisco Chronicle'' (03 Feb 1993), p. 7/Z1.〕 with its primary founder being Malcolm Whyte, the publisher of Troubador Press. CAM's first incarnation had no fixed location, instead organizing showings at other local museums and corporate spaces. In 1987, with the help of an endowment from cartoonist Charles Schulz, it established a home on the second floor of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin Building in the South of Market (SoMa) area. In late 1994 the museum temporarily closed while it moved locations again;〔"Newswatch: Cartoon Art Museum also on the Move," ''The Comics Journal'' #173 (Dec. 1994), p. 38.〕 re-opening in the summer of 1995.〔Stephenson, Chad. "Newswatch: The Cartoon Art Museum: A Grand Re-Opening," ''The Comics Journal'' #178 (July 1995), pp. 26-28.〕 Primary founder Malcom Whyte retired from the museum's board of directors around the same time.〔"Founder of Cartoon Art Museum Retires," ''The Comics Journal'' #179 (Aug. 1995), p. 25.〕 In 1997, the museum suffered through serious financial difficulties, and was almost forced to close〔Stump, Greg."Newswatch: Comics Museums Facing Financial Crisis," ''The Comics Journal'' #198 (Aug. 1997), pp. 11-15.〕—this was despite a new endowment fund from the Schulz Foundation.〔"News Watch: Schulz Foundation Sets Up Endowment Fund for Cartoon Art Museum," ''The Comics Journal'' #195 (Apr. 1997), p. 24.〕 Jenny E. Robb served as curator of the Cartoon Art Museum from 2000–2005. (Robb is now curator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in Columbus, Ohio.) Current curator Andrew Farago took over from Robb in 2005. In 2001, the museum moved to a ground-floor location at 655 Mission Street in SoMa, which had been vacated by the Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center. It closed the location in mid-September 2015 after the lease expired; the owners more than doubled the rent.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cartoon Art Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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