Trondheim does ads for the French post office

The Ephemerist picked up the news from the Blog Philatelie at http://www.blog-philatelie.com/2011/02/lewis-trondheim-fait-la-pub-de-la-poste.html

Here's the previous links:

http://www.blog-philatelie.com/2010/11/triple-service-consommateur-de-la-poste.html

http://www.blog-philatelie.com/2010/11/publicite-la-poste-vehicule-electrique.html

http://www.blog-philatelie.com/2011/02/publicite-colis-de-la-poste-par.html

New Astérix Stamps

Today the French Post Office announced a new sheet celebrating the 50th anniversary of BD hero Astérix Le Gaule. It features seven stamps with the main characters from the series created by Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny. Each of the stamps mentions France as their country of origin, but also Gaule, the country's name in the series.

The main stamp, showing Astérix himself on top of a golden "50" is also available as a solo stamp.

Additionally, an illustrated booklet was published showcasing the comic, and containing a cancelled stamp.

Simpsons stamps reported coming

See "Postal Service launching 'Simpsons' stamps: Designs will feature characters from the Fox series," By Georg Szalai, Hollywood Reporter April 1, 2009.

Well, now I've got something to trade with Europeans. I just got a bunch of French Looney Tunes in the mail. I must say that I'm really not too keen on postage stamps functioning as advertising.

Stamp illustration by Frederic Rebena

This is from Liberation, January 29 2009. Nice artwork, isn't it?

Hartford Courant features French Garfield stamps

The Hartford Courant for November 26, 2008 featured an article on the French Garfield stamps that came out in September. Given the fantastic amount of French comics or b-ds, I don't really know why the French post office is featuring Garfield. Is he wildly popular in France?

Garfield appears on French stamps

Dave Astor says Garfield is on two French stamps in his article, "A Pair of 'Garfield' Books -- and French Stamps!" E&P Online October 17, 2008.

[A correspondent of mine says this is actually a booklet of 10 stamps]