The Largest Cartoon Museum
Florida, USA, presently renamed into The National Cartoon Museum, has entered the Guinness Book as the Largest Cartoon Museum with a collection of over 200,000 original animated drawings from 50 different countries, 10 Replica Omega,000 books, and 1,000 hours of animation, interviews, and documentaries on film and tape, CD's and DVD's, altogether worth about $20 million. Among the highlights of the collection the visitors will discover the very first drawings Walt Disney created of Mickey and Minnie Mouse for his first movie "Plane Crazy", estimated at $3.7 million, and many other rare examples of this cultural art manifestation.
The museum has been found with the aim of collecting, preserving, and exhibiting animation and cartoon art, as well as entertaining the visitors, presenting a good educational resource, and promoting public knowledge of the art form.
Moving to the Empire State Building
The National Cartoon Museum, to open in the fall of 2006, will be moving into three floors at the base of the Empire State Building and is sure to attract droves of visitors. The cartoon lovers could have seen the building in countless cartoons and comic books as the symbol of New York.
The decision of changing the museum's location stands to reason Fakes Watches, as the comics industry originated from New York, so for many comic book characters the move means a trip back home. Timely Comics, the forerunner of Marvel Comics, was situated on the 14th floor from the early 1940's to the early 1950's with other major publishers clustered around.
The wide range of the exhibits will comprise more than eight genres, including newspaper comic strips, comic books, graphic novels and memoirs, animation, political cartoons, international cartoons and illustration and advertising.
The Museum is also going to carry many special displays and programs targeted at educating or amusing. The visitors will be impressed by a 15-foot plaster head of Walt Disney demonstrating all the characters in his brain and a timeline retracing cartoons to the cave dwellers. The Museum's Cartoon Hall of Fame is unequalled in the world, named in honor of William Randolph Hearst who is believed to have created the American Newspaper Comic Strip. The Museum's exhibitions have traveled for display as far away as Hong Kong.
Ralph Appelbaum has been made responsible for room designing, as his rich experience includes designing of the Holocaust museum in Washington and the Clinton presidential library.
The Museum's Origins
For Mr. Walker, who began drawing Beetle Bailey in 1950 and presently works in collaboration with his sons Greg and Brian, the museum represents the lifetime work. The cartoonist was first hit upon the ingenious idea of organizing a museum while attending a cartoonists' convention in Jamaica in 1970.
That period was perfectly suitable for assembling a collection. Mr. Walker recalls that cartoonists were ready to give away their work, and syndicates and newspapers with archives had no idea what to do with them, so they supplied the collector with 10,000 cartoons at a time.
Mr. Walker selected some of the better-known cartoonists of the time, such as Rube Goldberg, Milt Caniff and Walt Kelly, and the next step for him was to draw someone's financial support. The Hearst Foundation agreed to sign with $100,000 for the beginning and has since contributed $1 million.
Mr. Walker was offered to rent an old mansion, in Greenwich, Conn. And after some repair work the Museum opened its doors there in 1974. But in a little while the owner decided to make more money and Mr. Walker had to find another place.
For the next 19 years the Museum was housed in an abandoned castle in Rye Brook, N.Y. Over the time, it provided poor condition Fakes Watches, as the building was in constant need of restoration that was quite expensive.
The authorities of the Boca Raton city offered free land for new quarters and were ready to assist in raising money. But after the following many mishaps, such as the bankrupt of Marvel Comics, which had pledged $1 million, and another bankrupt of a confectionary company engaged in creating a line of candies with comic strip characters, guaranteeing the museum $500,000 a year, Mr. Walker realized there was one way out: to relocate to New York, heart of the cartoon world.
Mr. Malkin, an owner of the Empire State Building, a Beetle Bailey fan, supported the collector's dream to create something socially beneficial that would encourage people to consider cartoons as an enjoyable art.
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