San Francisco - Comic Art Museum

The Comic Art Museum in San Francisco is a small but ultra cool museum of comic art.

Mike Zeck is  a comic book illustrator who started in 1974 and has worked on many tites over the years.

Marvel's Punisher

Marvel's Secret Wars. The iconic black Spider-Man symbiote outfit.

They also had an exibition from the research work done by Trina Robbins, called Pretty in Ink. She is a comic artist as well. The exibition was of women in comics throughout the ages.

One of the standouts is Nell Brinkley, a stylish artist who worked on comics for fourty years.

Her work is artful and moving. I'd love an original.

Another standout was Tarpe Mills and her Miss Fury comic. It was the first costumed female superhero! Very risque art for the 1940's.

Next was the 30th anniversary exibition of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, by Eastman and Laird. That was fun reminising and I flipped through my TMNT graphic novels when I got home.

We were here on the first Tuesday of the month which is donation day. You basically pay what you feel is a suitable donation. Even the $8 regular charge would have been perfectly fine.

The gift shop is well stocked with comics and I picked up DC's Identiry Crisis. I read it over the next week and was super impressed.