Living people on US stamps? Let's nominate a cartoonist

Can I Get One Sheet of the Lady Gagas ...

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/us/postal-service-will-begin-honoring-living-people-on-stamps.html

 

 

But who to nominate?

Ordering Norway's stamps

Wim Lockefeer found the site to order the stamps, although it's in Norwegian:

https://ordre.posten.no/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=11515&JServSessionIdrootpebsappf02=7cisbdv2a1.q6jwqQ5Kq6mKawTKpRbOnkSIpAWUtxCLbx0KaK--&parentSection=11419

Norway issues cartoon stamps

Crack cartoonist Ryan Claytor (whose done his own postage at Zazzle) tells me that Jason shows four stamps, including one of his art on his blog at http://catswithoutdogs.blogspot.com/2011/09/lick-my-stamp.html

Also included are Nemi by Lise Myhre, Frode Överli,and Christopher Nielsen.

I need a set of these if anyone's reading up there...

Edward Gorey's illustrated envelopes

The book is Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer.

See this article for more details:

Edward Gorey's Never-Before-Seen Letters and Illustrated Envelopes
by Maria Popova
Brain Pickings September 15 2011
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/09/15/floating-world-edward-gorey-letters/

Just because you draw a cartoon character on it...

...doesn't mean that children will flock to your stamp collector's kid, especially if you don't put any cartoon stamps actually in it. Here's the press release and here's the Stanley Gibbons ordering site.