Cartoon attractions in California

Two other California destinations for ‘toon tourists:

* In San Francisco, there’s the Cartoon Art Museum (655 Mission St., (415) 227-8666, www.cartoonart.org), which features exhibitions, a bookstore and classes for students and adults. The museum, which owns about 6,000 artworks, has been in the neighborhood since 1987, when Charles Schulz gave it a budget-steadying endowment. Curator Andrew Farago says the museum gets more than 10,000 visitors a year. Admission: adults, $6; children 6-12, $2, and 5 and younger, free. Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

* In San Diego, several spots pay homage to Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, who lived in La Jolla for decades before his death in 1991. There’s no Seuss or Geisel museum, but since 1995 the UC San Diego campus’ signature top-heavy concrete-and-glass main library has been known as the Geisel Library (www.ucsd.edu/portal/site/Libraries).

Outside the library sits a life-size bronze of the cartoonist joined by a 7-foot Cat in the Hat. Inside, the Mandeville Special Collections Library holds the Geisel archive (open only to university-approved researchers) and typically stages Seussian displays every March (his birthday is March 2) and every summer.

Also, since 1998, the Old Globe in Balboa Park (1363 Old Globe Way; (619) 234-5623, www.theoldglobe.org) has been staging annual holiday productions of the musical “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” This year’s show will run Nov. 15 to Dec. 28. Ticket prices are $39-$79 for adults, $19-$59 for children 3-17.