Thursday, November 21, 2024

Peanuts stamp designer interviewed

 https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/11/meet-antonio-alcala-usps-stamp-designer.html

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Combat Insignia / War Insignia albums for World War II Disney unit stamps

These were done by Disney cartoonists, and other animation studios, and at least 201 were printed. There's information from Douglas H. Henkle about the first 5 volumes (#s 1-201) at https://www.folklib.net/fdc/wwii-combat-insignia.shtml and https://www.folklib.net/fdc/wwii-combat-insignia2.shtml and for the mysterious volume 6 which apparently had 200, most of which were not repeats of the first 200. Also, he's found horizontal and vertical versions of the stamps.

 




Box cover
 

One thing Mr. Henkle may have missed is that the first 4 albums were also sold as a boxed set. I recently bought one on e-Bay. I've emailed him my photos.






Just the thing to round out your cartoon stamps collection - Mail Carrier Ziggy

A recent flea market find.




 

Marvel Value Stamps: A Visual History (2023) book

 I had meant to write something about the actual book, never got around to it, and so never mentioned that the book by Roy Thomas exists. 




There was a calendar in 2024 ...






and a new one for 2025. The cover is exactly the same art, but with a different color. I'll bet it's just an updated version of last year's.


and did I ever mention this 2017 giveaway folder?






Comic Strip Classics 1995 stamp album by Mort Walker featuring Beetle Bailey

 A friend of mine bought this in an auction and sent it to me. I'd never seen it before. It's published by Fleetwood in a black pleather folder.





Marvel and DC 1976 Super Hero Stamps Cinderellas

 A friend told me about these today. They appear to be numbered DC 1-6 and Marvel (M) 7-12. Images harvested from Amazon, which doesn't have any of them for sale. 














Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Guelph's Seth to be featured on new Canada Post stamp

Guelph's Seth to be featured on new Canada Post stamp [audio]

Craig Norris, host of CBC Kitchener-Waterloo's The Morning Edition,
 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/seth-guelph-cartoonist-canada-post-stamp-1.7206547
Canada Post has unveiled a new stamp series featuring Canada's graphic novelists. Among the four artists is Seth of Guelph, who is known for his Palookaville comic series, part of which was published as the award-winning graphic novel Clyde Fans.

Guelph cartoonist Seth 'flabbergasted' to be included in new stamp series

'I did not expect that at any point I'd end up on a stamp,' Seth says

Craig Norris,

CBC News · May 19, 2024 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/seth-guelph-cartoonist-canada-post-stamp-1.7206547