Peanuts FDC to be auctioned

Schulz first day cover expected to fetch £1,000 at auction A first day cover signed by Charles Schulz featuring an original, hand drawn sketch of Snoopy is expected to fetch as much as £1,000 at auction next month.

August 27 2010
http://news-antique.com/?id=794191&keys=autograph-snoopy-Schulz-auction

Another article on Beetle stamp ceremony

There's a bit of revisionism by the Post Office in this article - Mort Walker spent a long time lobbying the Post Office to do the stamps, not the other way around as is implied.

Beetle Bailey stamp ships off to MU
BY Megan Cassidy
Thursday, August 26, 2010
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2010/08/26/beetle-bailey-stamp-ships-mizzou/

Beetle Baily stamp ceremony at University of Missouri on August 27th

Details here:

 

Mizzou honors Beetle Bailey, cartoon native son

KAIT Aug 26, 2010

http://www.kait8.com/global/story.asp?s=13047596

Ryan Claytor on a cool First Day Cover collection

Cartoonist Ryan Claytor's touring the east coast, and here's his blog report on a really neat idea for a comics and cartoon collection.

Ray Robinson's Comic FDC site is new to me, but I'll put up a permanent link to it as well. Here's a link to his version of Ryan's signing.

This really is a great idea.

Complete Calvin and Hobbes' contest

UComics is running a contest to win a complete Calvin and Hobbes. You need to send them a postcard with a Sunday Funnies stamp on it to enter. The contest ends August 31.

Technical info on Sunday Funnies stamps

Mactac supplies PS materials for comic strip stamps
 5th August 2010
http://www.labelsandlabeling.com/news/mactac_supplies_ps_materials_for_comic_s

Calvin and Hobbes letter and envelope online

Here's a Calvin and Hobbes letter and envelope online