Wednesday, February 2, 2011

2011 Israel stamp features cartoon character

Ofer B reports on a new Israeli stamp of interest coming out on February 7th:

http://www.israelpost.co.il/postboolaee.nsf/HanpakotViewEng/69D6CFE1CD5C2CE9C22578220030AEDE?opendocument&L=EN

 

The tail of the stamp has "Chamudi" (the HMO's current mascot) on it. "Chamudi" is a comic-strip character created by Daniela London-Dekel and published for a long time by Ha'aretz weekly supplement. It moved to "Yedioth Achronot" newspaper about three years ago. It is also the HMO service's mascot for roughly five years now.

Here is a link to a good strip published at Ha'aretz a while back:

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=593874&contrassID=2&subContrassID=13&sbSubContrassID=0

 

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Two faux stamps from the Washington Post


A recent rendering of a real stamp by Polly Becker, January 21 2011


The famous Flying Jenny reinterpreted by Eric Shansby to feature Gene Weingarten, April 25, 2010

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Friday, January 21, 2011

Nice Forever stamp parody

John Trever did a nice Forever stamp parody which is reproduced in this article -

 
Albuquerque Journal Cartoonist Retires After 34 Years

By Rob Tornoe

Tornoe's Caroon News January 21st, 2011

http://blog.cagle.com/news/2011/01/21/albuquerque-journal-cartoonist-retires-after-34-years/

 

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

USPS Pixar stamps press release

Send a Hello

Send a Hello stamp

Since 1986, Pixar films have stretched the boundaries of our imagination with stories about unlikely heroes who explore the bonds of friendship and family. Now some of those heroes are the subjects of colorful new Send a Hello stamps that encourage people to connect with loved ones through the mail.

The Send a Hello stamps, which go on sale Aug. 19, are a natural outgrowth of the Art of Disney stamp series issued between 2004 and 2008. Originally intended as a series of three annual issuances depicting friendship, celebration, and romance, the Art of Disney stamps proved so popular that the Postal Service expanded the series to include issuances in 2007 and 2008 to celebrate imagination and magic.

Based on that success, the Postal Service was eager to work with the Walt Disney Company again, choosing to explore the Disney*Pixar films, which offer exciting, contemporary characters and strong themes involving family and friends.

This pane of 20 stamps includes five different designs featuring Pixar characters: Lightning McQueen and Mater from Cars (2006); Remy the rat and Linguini from Ratatouille (2007); Buzz Lightyear and two of the green, three-eyed aliens from Toy Story (1995); Carl Fredricksen and Dug from Up (2009); and the robot WALL*E from WALL*E (2008).

Since the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was introduced in 2001, all seven Pixar films released since that time have been nominated and five of the seven have won, including Ratatouille, WALL*E and Up.

Pixar stamps coming to USPS

Here's the story - I'll go to the USPS site for the original PR soon.

Thursday, December 16, 2010