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The Ticonderoga Cartoon Museum, formerly the Hague
Cartoon Museum, is a relatively new museum housed in Ticonderoga in
the Community Center on Montcalm Street.
The Museum is unique in the fact that there's
literally "something of interest to everyone" in the more than 700
comic art pieces on display. History students may wish to
study the social/political/cultural aspects of the US through
editorial cartoons dating back to the turn of the century.
Kids can find plenty of Garfield, Peanuts characters, and their
favorite super-heroes. Veteran "funny page" fans will
see the "oldies", including Little Orphan Annie, Tarzan, the
Katzenjammer Kids, and Prince Valiant. Monsters loom in the
Fantasy Art section.
Both old and new displays are on hand to study. Some of these
are: Charles Dana Gibson and his beautiful Girl Art; Thomas
Nast and How His Cartoons Destroyed the Corrupt Tammany Gang;
Novice artists display; Stan Burdick's Editorial Cartoons;
Animation Art; Art of Disney; Fantasy Art with Frazetta; Illusions
and Flip Faces; 100 Years of the Comics; Winning Women's Suffrage
through Cartoon; How Editorial Cartoons are Created; Animal
Drawings; and Comic Books Over the Years.
The Museum also house 300 books of cartoon reference in their
library. Students of the comics, both young and old,
can spend time in the Book Nook to research their favorite comic
characters, even if they are 100 years old. Young artists can find
many "how to" books.
All of this delightful display is the result of over 50 years of
collecting by director, Stan Burdick.
Group Tours to the Museum are available. Teachers, club
leaders, senior citizens can call 518-585-7015 to arrange tours.
Cartoon presentations are also available to your school or club
group within a reasonable distance. Ask for a list of
subjects available.
Some of the original cartoons in the collection were generously
donated by these professional cartoonists: B.B. Sams, Chuck Asay,
Jim Borgman, Bob Bindig, Bud Blake, Bunny Hoest, Frank Cammuso,
Charles Shultz, Sid Couchey, Dave Coverly, Dick Wright, Don
Chambers, Don Lee, Emil Abrahamian, Erik Sansom, Bubba Flint, Fred
Lasswell, Garry Trudeau, Henry Boltinoff, Draper Hill, John
Kovaleski, Jack Elrod, Jeff MacNelly, Jeff Shesol, John Marshall,
Bill Keane, Hank Ketcham, Lank Leonard, Leslie Turner, Lynn
Johnston, Mark Szorday, Mort Walker, Ray Osrin, Parker and Hart,
Johnny Hart, Pat Brady, Pete Hoffman, Rick Detono, Hy Rosen, Henry
Scarpelli, Jeff Stahler, Tom Wilson, L. D. Warren, Clyde Wells,
Zach Mosley, and James Wiemer. |
