The MoCCA...

After our brunch, we went off to find a new museum. Abi had found out about the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Arts and so lead the way to a building down on Broadway. To say it was a museum might have been pushing it a bit, it was more like a mini gallery on the 4th floor of an office block - but what they had on display was fantastic.

There were all sorts of original scribbles from famous comics and cartoons - they had some original Where The Wild Things Are drawings, some Batman sketches, some amazing Marvel Comics sketches - like Iron Man, original Looney Toons stuff and some Snoopy. The had a lot of American comic drawings that we'd never seen before, but it was all great.

The walls were crammed from top to bottom with different sized drawings in different frames. It was a lot to take in all at once - it was a funny little place.

This was great to see - sketches of Bugs Bunny on tracing paper, there were pencil scribbles with pen over the top of them and a coffee stain on the paper to the right.

In the corner of the room was an 'Adults Only' section - sectioned off with swing doors with warnings of adult content and no children allowed plastered on them. So guess where I found Abi...

I went in, but only to get Abi out you understand. It was sectioned off mainly because of the politically incorrect stuff that was in there that might have been a wee bit offensive, like this...

Tom - I'm afraid they didn't have a gift shop, so they didn't have any copies of these posters for sale! I think they would have looked great in your new kitchen!

It was a completely different type of museum or gallery, and it felt funny being in an officey type building - but it was fascinating to see all the different styles of illustrations, seeing the human-ness in them, the smudges on the paper, the pen over pencil, the wrinkles in the paper... it was really inspiring and made us wish we did more drawings and illustrations in our free time.