USPS has Burroughs and Tarzan stamps

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan is a creation of the pulps, but he's been in comic strips and books and cartoons for so long that it's worth noting that the Post Office has just released a stamp of Burroughs and Tarzan.

One can order them here.

The Post reports The Simpsons stamps undersold

Simpsons stamps wasted $1.2 million for Postal Service, report says [in print as Inspector general to Postal Service, D'oh! $1.2 million wasted on overproduction of 'The Simpsons' stamps, report says, p. B4]
By Angela Grieling Keane / Bloomberg News
Washington Post August 22, 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/simpsons-stamps-cost-postal-service-12-million-in-waste/2012/08/21/1a7442d2-ebb5-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html

Local cartoonist George Mercer passes away

GEORGE DANIEL MERCER (Age 88) 
Published in The Washington Post on August 15, 2012
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?pid=159182597

The death notice says he was "Cartoonist for the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper" and that he designed nine stamps.