Just the thing to round out your cartoon stamps collection - Mail Carrier Ziggy

A recent flea market find.

 

Marvel Value Stamps: A Visual History (2023) book

 I had meant to write something about the actual book, never got around to it, and so never mentioned that the book by Roy Thomas exists. 

There was a calendar in 2024 ...

and a new one for 2025. The cover is exactly the same art, but with a different color. I'll bet it's just an updated version of last year's.

and did I ever mention this 2017 giveaway folder?

Comic Strip Classics 1995 stamp album by Mort Walker featuring Beetle Bailey

 A friend of mine bought this in an auction and sent it to me. I'd never seen it before. It's published by Fleetwood in a black pleather folder.

Marvel and DC 1976 Super Hero Stamps Cinderellas

 A friend told me about these today. They appear to be numbered DC 1-6 and Marvel (M) 7-12. Images harvested from Amazon, which doesn't have any of them for sale. 

Guelph's Seth to be featured on new Canada Post stamp

Guelph's Seth to be featured on new Canada Post stamp [audio]

Craig Norris, host of CBC Kitchener-Waterloo's The Morning Edition,

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/seth-guelph-cartoonist-canada-post-stamp-1.7206547

Canada Post has unveiled a new stamp series featuring Canada's graphic novelists. Among the four artists is Seth of Guelph, who is known for his Palookaville comic series, part of which was published as the award-winning graphic novel Clyde Fans.

Guelph cartoonist Seth 'flabbergasted' to be included in new stamp series

'I did not expect that at any point I'd end up on a stamp,' Seth says

Craig Norris,

CBC News · May 19, 2024 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/seth-guelph-cartoonist-canada-post-stamp-1.7206547

Canada Post Graphic Novel Stamp Panel from TCAF recorded by Jamie Coville

Canada Post Graphic Novel Stamp Panel (1:07:56, 155mb)

Miles Baker did the introduction, then Carrie Chisholm from Canada Post announced they made new stamps with Seth, Jillian & Mariko Tamaki, Chester Brown and Michel Rabagliati based on their books Clyde Fans, This One Summer, Louis Riel and Paul à Québec respectively. Ho Che Anderson then interviewed the Seth, Jillian Tamaki and Chester Brown. They spoke about how they got involved with Canada Post, the process of making the stamp and working with Canada Post, Jillian spoke about collecting stamps as a child and always wanting to make one as a kid, the exposure and prestige of their work on a stamp, comics as art and their progression from the 1980s to now, how in comics there are different parts that want comics to be respected vs. subversive and which 'camp' they fall into, if Chester would do Louis Riel differently today, how there are a lot more young cartoonists now, becoming 'elder statemen' of comics, the state of comics today and the industry, how big their respective OA was and thinking about how it will look when it's shrunk down to stamp size, working with scanners and digitally, the reduction of quality in non-digital art tools, how Seth and Chester influenced each other, Jillian learning how to draw comics by reading comics, Jillian being a part of a generation of comics creators that didn't grow up reading Marvel and DC comics, if they felt trapped by the success of their earlier works, Chester's Paying for It being turned into a film and what new work they are doing.

from Jamie Coville's MP3 Files at https://www.thecomicbooks.com/audio.html#TCAF2024

A surprise Rube Goldberg piece of cartoonphilately

Does this book, A Night Out by Edward Peple (NY: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1911 5th printing) look like a piece of philately to you? 

I picked it up recently just for the Rube Goldberg drawing of a cat for the cover and frontispiece, which is the only cartooning in it.

 

But when I went to scan it today, I noticed the back cover for the first time.

As you can see, this small book, roughly 4.5" x 7" was meant to be mailed.

And this copy was in fact mailed, or somehow delivered to Mr. C.A. Schwab, Deacons Hospital, Longwood, Mass. Probably hand-delivered since the "Place a Five Cent Stamp Here" block was not used. That postage rate looks good - according to an online calculator, that 5 cent stamp would only cost $1.65 today.

I had originally planned on just scanning the cat and giving the book away, but now I'm adding it to my cartoonphilately collection.

Here's the cat by himself for downloads.