Stan Burdick, Director
129 The Portage
Ticonderoga, NY 12883
Phone: 518-585-7015
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Stan Burdick has been collecting cartoon memorabilia for over 50 years. In 1998, wishing to share his collection with the public, he opened the Hague Cartoon Museum in Hague, New York (10 miles south of Ticonderoga). The museum remained in Hague for seven summers until the building housing the museum was slated for demolition in 2003.

In 2004, a rental agreement was formed with the Ticonderoga Town Board, giving Stan's collection a home in the basement of Ticonderoga Community Building. The Ticonderoga Cartoon Museum officially opened on April Fools' Day, 2004 - a fitting date considering the contents of the collection!

With the move to Ticonderoga, several new exhibits were established, including a Mort Drucker original from Mad Magazine, art by Chuck Jones and Frank Frazetta, and the current "Zits" strip by Jerry Scott. The collection is expected to continue to grow. "We're continually expanding and adding. It's never finished," says Stan.

The Ticonderoga Cartoon Museum is staffed by volunteers from the community. One dollar from every ticket sold goes to the town for leasing the space to the museum.
 
Stan "The Cartoon Man" Burdick

stanStan got his start a long, long time ago by winning several cartoon contests in an early boys' magazine titled Open Road for Boys. Later he co-edited and co-published American Squaredance magazine, which helded to home his drawing and writing skills.

His interest in editorial cartooning began with several works published by the Sandusky Register in Ohio, as well as in other journals.

Retirement to New York State in the early 90's offered the opportunity to so serious editorial cartoon work. Three northeastern New York papers employed hom, resulting in 118 cartoons in the Post-Star (Glens Falls), 124 cartoons in the Press Republican (Plattsburgh) and currently over 100 in the Lake Champlain Weekly (Plattsburgh), as a staff cartoonist of each. He also does gag cartoons for the Country Mile magazine.

Stan founded and directs activities of a cartoon museum in Ticonderoga (formerly in Hague, NY) where over 700 comic and editorial cartoons are exhibited for public viewing.

A member of both the AAEC and NCS, Stan resides with his wife Cathie in Ticonderoga, NY on Lake george. His honors for cartoon work include six one-man art show in six area galleries, an adirondack Park "Outstanding Communicator" award in 2000, and inclusion in Best Editorial Cartoons of 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 (yearly volumes).