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

Monday, May 27, 2024

Canada Post Graphic Novel Stamp Panel from TCAF recorded by Jamie Coville


Miles Baker did the introduction, then Carrie Chisholm from Canada Post announced they made new stamps with Seth, Jillian & Mariko Tamaki, Chester Brown and Michel Rabagliati based on their books Clyde Fans, This One Summer, Louis Riel and Paul à Québec respectively. Ho Che Anderson then interviewed the Seth, Jillian Tamaki and Chester Brown. They spoke about how they got involved with Canada Post, the process of making the stamp and working with Canada Post, Jillian spoke about collecting stamps as a child and always wanting to make one as a kid, the exposure and prestige of their work on a stamp, comics as art and their progression from the 1980s to now, how in comics there are different parts that want comics to be respected vs. subversive and which 'camp' they fall into, if Chester would do Louis Riel differently today, how there are a lot more young cartoonists now, becoming 'elder statemen' of comics, the state of comics today and the industry, how big their respective OA was and thinking about how it will look when it's shrunk down to stamp size, working with scanners and digitally, the reduction of quality in non-digital art tools, how Seth and Chester influenced each other, Jillian learning how to draw comics by reading comics, Jillian being a part of a generation of comics creators that didn't grow up reading Marvel and DC comics, if they felt trapped by the success of their earlier works, Chester's Paying for It being turned into a film and what new work they are doing.

from Jamie Coville's MP3 Files at https://www.thecomicbooks.com/audio.html#TCAF2024