Cartoon Art Museum
Front door of the Cartoon Art Museum
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 Location within San Francisco County
Location within San Francisco County
Location within San Francisco County
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| Established | 1984 |
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| Location | 655 Mission Street, San Francisco, California |
| Coordinates | 37°47′14″N 122°24′03″W / 37.787088°N 122.400940°W |
| Type | The art of comics and cartoons |
| Collection size | 6,000 pieces |
| Director | Summerlea Kashar |
| Curator | Andrew Farago |
| Website | www |
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. 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.
The Museum was founded in 1984 by comic art enthusiasts, 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; re-opening in the summer of 1995. Primary founder Malcom Whyte retired from the museum's board of directors around the same time.
In 1997, the museum suffered through serious financial difficulties, and was almost forced to close—this was despite a new endowment fund from the Schulz Foundation.
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.
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