Friday, December 6, 2013

Post Office and SpongeBob work together

Have your message delivered by SpongeBob

Washington Post December 5 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/have-your-message-delivered-by-spongebob/2013/12/04/dc77fed6-5c58-11e3-be07-006c776266ed_story.html
I stopped by a PO in Arlington, VA today, but didn't see any of these postcards. If anyone sees them, please note where in the comments.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Stamps on comic books - Akiko

I recently got an issue of Mark Crilley's Akiko -#34 -where he hand-drew two Japanese stamps on the cover (images are courtesy of the Grand Comics Database). He did the same for #32-33. I guess I'll add this comic to my stamp collection - if only so I can find it again someday.




Sunday, August 25, 2013

New Smurf stamps from Switzerland

New Smurf stamps from Switzerland are coming out soon - The Ephemerist has the story.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

NSA cartoon stamp


From: mark doeffinger

 
Every once in a while I think up a stamp cartoon. This one has to do with the scanning of letters by the post office for supposed national security purposes.   If you can use it in cartoonphilately I would be happy to have it appear there. My website:   http://thelitestuffcartoons.com/home/July_1-13.html

Best,

Mark









The Ephemerist on comics stamps

Wim's writing 10 blog posts about comics on stamps and 2 are live:
 

Friday, April 26, 2013

Postal Museum gets design work on comics stamps


National Postal Museum receives donation of original artwork
April 18 2013 
 
"As an art director for the U.S. Postal Service for more than 15 years, Herrman designed more than 50 stamps and directed more than 400 stamp issues. His work includes famous stamp issues such as Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, Comic Strip Classics, DC Comic Super Heroes, Marvel Comic Super Heroes and Celebrate the Century." Peanuts is included too - see the finding aid at
http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/findingguides/Herrman_Collection_Finding_Guide.pdf

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

A Dental Tech's Scribbles: The Collection of Bill Baltezar

A Dental Tech's Scribbles: The Collection of Bill Baltezar
Andre Sobocinski
The Grog - Vol 6 Number 2 - Spring 2011
 
Recently, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Library and Archives accessioned a collection of artwork by a Navy dental technician named William "Bill" Baltezar (1924-2009). Before enlisting in the Navy, Baltezar was a trained artist; and through service on active duty (1943-1946) and in the reserves (1946-1953), he never stopped exercising his talent or need to present the daily life of an enlisted sailor through sketch and scribble. This collection consists of letters to his
mother while at boot camp and later Hospital Corps School in San Diego, CA (1944), 26 pages of sketches drawn aboard Patrol Cruiser Escort-851 (1945-46), and illustrated envelopes that once enclosed love letters to his future wife, Dorothea. Dorothea Baltezar recalled of her husband, "he illustrated every envelope of every letter he ever sent—I kept all that he sent me over a two-year courtship." After leaving the Navy, Baltezar worked as an artist in Salinas, CA, where, in addition
to earning a reputation for his art work, Baltezar was a popular character in the community known for his fanciful stories, and performances in local community theater productions. In 2010, the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, CA, posthumously honored Baltezar with an exhibit of his watercolors entitled "When Ya Gonna Give Me a Damn Show?"

Friday, February 15, 2013

Disney ad on USPS moving kit

The US Postal Service's "Mover's Guide Official Change of Address Kit," January 2013, has a Disney advertisement, and can currently be picked up at your local post office through March 31st.