The Silver Lining has collected a few typical appearances of USPS's Mr. Zip character.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Watterson initially turned down stamp
In Author goes in search of 'Calvin and Hobbes': Author details mission of writing about reclusive cartoonist Bill Watterson by Maria Sciullo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette January 20, 2010, she writes:
Characteristically, Calvin and Hobbes are making grotesque faces on the stamp. It's part of an ongoing series honoring 100 years of comic strips in America, said Terry McCaffrey, manager of stamp development for the U.S. Postal Service.
" 'Calvin and Hobbes' came to the forefront" of the citizen's stamp advisory committee, he said. "It was an extremely popular choice."
Contacting Mr. Watterson through his agent, he said, they were surprised when he turned them down.
"His concern was he didn't want any product created around it. We said, 'We can certainly take that off the table, we just want to commemorate your great work on a postage stamp.'
"And he agreed to that."
And note the 'ongoing' in the quote - yeah!
Monday, January 18, 2010
Tim Kreider discovers a new cartoonist on a stamp
Tim Kreider, writing about a disturbing cartoon, discovered a cartoonist on a stamp that was new to me, and probably most people. The cartoonist, Charles Johnson appeared on stamps issued in 1997 by Uganda and Ghana - here's an article and then another on the series. He was on the stamps for his role as a writer and essayist, not his early cartoonist career.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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