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Cartoon Art Museum, Mission Street
San Francisco was a center of underground comics in the 1960s with artists such as Robert Crumb (Fritz the Cat) and S. Clay Wilson contributing to the San Francisco-published, 'Zap Comix'. Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Bill Griffiths (Zippy the Pinhead) also co-founded the cartoon anthology, 'Arcade' here in the early 1970s. So it's only natural that the only museum of its kind in the nation, the Cartoon Art Museum, resides here. The 22 year-old museum features over 6,000 pieces of cartoon art. Endowed by Bay Area cartoonist and Peanuts creator, Charles M. Schulz the museum also features a research library, artist-in-residence, lecture series programs, and traveling exhibitions.
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