Friday, November 29, 2019

Belgium's Suske and Wiske stamps coming in 2020

Les 75 ans de Bob et Bobette (paraîtra le 27 janvier 2020)
Bien qu'ils affichent une éternelle jeunesse, Bob et Bobette fêteront déjà leur 75e anniversaire en 2020. Ces deux célèbres héros de BD figurent certes déjà au panthéon philatélique belge, mais cette toute nouvelle série de timbres-poste retrace leur évolution, de leurs toutes premières aventures jusqu'à aujourd'hui.

Thursday, September 5, 2019

Abrams to collect Marvel Value Stamps in book

Not exactly stamps, but...


Marvel Value Stamps reproduces another piece of Marvel history: special stamps that ran in issues in 1974 and 1975.  Readers who collected all 100 stamps in a special booklet could turn them in for prizes and discounts.  "It completely ruined the Silver Age comics," Kochman said, because so many readers cut them up.  The book includes the original stamps (and the letter pages they came from), booklets, and other artwork used for the program, with text by former Marvel editor Roy Thomas.  The hardcover book will be released in May with an MSRP of $24.99.

Monday, August 12, 2019

Ernie Colon Cinderella stamps from Archie Comics

The great comics artist passed away last week. Here's some early work of his from Archie's Madhouse #9 (1960) th
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at I lifted from somewhere on Facebook.

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Terry Flippo's mailman strip Deliver Me on the Scout's food drive



I was a bit behind in reading his strip, which I recommend, but is Facebook only.

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Asterix stamps from France come out later this year

Here's the story, courtesy of Wim L.

Un carnet de timbres pour les 60 ans d'Astérix

La Poste fête le soixantième anniversaire d'Astérix avec un carnet de douze timbres, en vente en avant-première dès le 31 mai.

Par Publié le 25 mai 2019

https://www.lemonde.fr/argent/article/2019/05/25/un-carnet-de-timbres-pour-les-60-ans-d-asterix_5467016_1657007.html

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Marvel stamps coming from Royal Mail in March

Alan Davis has done a set of ten stamps and they've also had Neil Edwards do artwork. I think the artwork by Davis is new for the stamps, which obviously reflect the Marvel movie line up, even as the characters are drawn in their comic book costumes.

The stamps are featured in multiple arrangements, to suck in all the money.... hmmph, rather, to appeal to collectors, I mean.

Details here: