BD Festival : 2022 Contern Luxembourg

2022-Jul-16:17 Contern Luxembourg

28th Festival BD Festival

The 28th Comic Book (BD) Festival took place on 16 - 17 July in Contern. After two years of restrictions, the numerous visitors were welcomed again for a moment of conviviality, entertainment for young and old and all this under the sign of comics 

More than 100 sales booths and a dozen food stalls created a popular festival and flea market atmosphere on the festival site. The Festival offered a wide range of new and used comics, original drawings, posters, figurines and all kinds of objects related to the world of comics. Eminent national and international cartoonists are present to meet their public and to sign their works.

POST Luxembourg issued a stamp dedicated to the festival, as well as a special stamp and a view card reproducing the poster of the Festival, created by Etienne Willem, as well as many philatelic souvenirs having a link to comics - PostPhilately

Wile E Coyote and Road Runner - Looney Tunes : 2000

2000-Apr-26 Phoneix AZ
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner are fictional cartoon characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons, first appearing in 1949 in the theatrical short Fast and Furry-ous, created for Warner Bros. in 1948 by Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese.

In each film, the cunning, devious and constantly hungry coyote repeatedly attempts to catch and eat the roadrunner, but is humorously unsuccessful. Instead of using animal instinct, the coyote deploys absurdly complex schemes and devices to try to catch his prey. They comically backfire, with the coyote invariably getting injured in slapstick fashion. Many of the items for these contrivances are mail-ordered from the Acme Corporation and other companies.

Star Wars - Droids : 2021 United States

 

2021-May-04 Nicasio CA (Skywalker Ranch)

Ten forever stamps from the United States Postal Service celebrate 10 popular mechanical androids from the Star Wars film franchise and media empire. Lucasfilm, the studio that created the Star Wars franchise, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2021.

Each stamp in the set shows a single droid that has appeared in one or more feature films in the fictional Star Wars media franchise, or in an offshoot television or streaming series. The droids are each depicted against an indistinct background representing “settings of memorable adventures,” according to the Postal Service.

Representing more than four decades of innovation and storytelling, the droids featured in these stamps are IG-11, R2-D2, K-2SO, D-O, L3-37, BB-8, C-3PO, a GNK (Gonk) power droid, 2-1B surgical droid and C1-10P (Chopper)

R2-D2 and C-3PO, were featured in the first scene of the first Star Wars movie in 1977, are shown on two adjacent stamps in the 2007 pane of 15

Digital Color postmarks were available for each of the stamps:

Commemorative postmarks: 

Daffy Duck - Looney tunes : 1999

1999-Apr-16 Los Angeles CA
Daffy Duck is a fictional cartoon character created by animators Tex Avery and Bob Clampett for Leon Schlesinger Productions in Porky's Duck Hunt (1937-Apr-17). Styled as an anthropomorphic black duck, he has appeared in cartoon series such as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, in which he is usually depicted as a foil for either Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, or Speedy Gonzales. He was one of the first of the new "screwball" characters that emerged in the late 1930s to replace traditional everyman characters

Sylvester and Tweety - Looney Tunes : 1998

1998-Apr-27 New York NY
Tweety is a fictional cartoon character, a yellow canary bird in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons. His characteristics are based on Red Skelton's famous "Junior the Mean Widdle Kid". He appeared in 46 cartoons during the golden age, made between 1942 and 1964.

Bob Clampett created the character that would become Tweety in the 1942 short A Tale of Two Kitties, pitting him against two hungry cats named Babbit and Catstello (based on the famous comedians Abbott and Costello). 

Sylvester J. Pussycat Sr., created by Fritz Freleng and designed by Hawley Pratt, is a fictional cartoon character, an anthropomorphic cat in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Most of his appearances have him often chasing Tweety, Speedy Gonzales, or Hippety Hopper. He appeared in 103 cartoons in the golden age of American animation, lagging only behind superstars Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and Daffy Duck. 

The first short to team Tweety and Sylvester, was 1947's Tweetie Pie, which won Warner Bros. its first Academy Award for Best Short Subject. Sylvester and Tweety proved to be one of the most notable pairings in animation history.

Cédric : 2016 Belgium

2016-Mar-14 Cédric 30th Anniversary

Cédric is a Belgian comics series written by Raoul Cauvin, illustrated by Laudec. The comic is about the adventures of a young rascal, including his family and his school life. Cédric is a hero close to the hearts of all children, funny yet tender at the same time. Between the teacher, the school shrink, nosy parents, rowdy pals, an odious niece, and a temperamental girlfriend, Cédric finds it hard to keep his tranquility. For the better part of it, his grandfather is always at hand. 

Cédric is a 8 year old boisterous boy arriving at his new school, in the first volume. He quickly meets Christian, who becomes his best friend, and Miss Nellie, his teacher with whom he falls in love. He lives with his maternal grandfather and his parents with an often tense atmosphere between his father Robert and his grandfather Jules.

Science & Technology Animation : 2003 Japan

2003-Dec-16 : Science & Technology and Animation – Twenty stamps of eight designs in two shets of ten were issued. Designs are Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy); Bowman Doll; Nagaoka Hantoaro; H-II rocket; Morph 3. Stamp designer – Morita Motoharu

Bugs Bunny - Looney Tunes : 1997

1997-May-22  Warner Bros Studios, Burbank CA

The Bug Bunny stamp was issued to honor him and make him the USPS “ambassador to youth” and encourage children to take up stamp collecting as a hobby as part of its Stampers youth program.

Stamp design manager Terrence McCaffrey looked at over 150 different sketches from Warner Bros. Studios during the stamp design process.  The actual stamp design was done by Warner Bros. under the supervision of McCaffrey.

Bugs Bunny was created in the late 1930s at Warner Bros. Cartoons (originally Leon Schlesinger Productions) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for his featured roles in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated short films, produced by Warner Bros. Early iterations of the character first appeared in Ben Hardaway's Porky's Hare Hunt (1938) and subsequent shorts before Bugs's definitive character traits debuted in Tex Avery's A Wild Hare (1940). Bob Givens, Chuck Jones, and Robert McKimson are credited for defining Bugs's visual design.

Bugs Bunny commemorative postmark

Communications : 1988 France

Twelve of France's leading comic strip artists designed the twelve stamps that male up France's 1988 “La Communication” booklet; each artist was also a Gran Prize winner from the Comic Strip Festival of Angoulême, France, from 1976 through 1987.

The first international comic strip gallery opened in Angoulême in 1974 and by 1987 its popularity was so wide-spread that over one hundred and eighty thousand visitors toured the gallery's impressive array of comic strip art.

Comic strips were long considered a “sub-literature,” but now this type of graphic expression is being studied in college courses and is recognized as having tremendous value as a teaching aid.

Today, children and adults alike can use this medium to study history, philosophy, literature and the Bible, as well as for the more traditional entertainment purposes. In France, as in many other counties around the world, there are a large number of quality publications on the market, able to satisfy the most diverse tastes and needs.

Mon Journal, the first story told in captioned pictures, was first published in France in 1887 under the signature of Christophe, the pseudonym for Georges Colomb.

Alain Saint-Ogan was the first to make systematic use of speech balloons in Zig and Puce in 1925. this event marked the true beginnings of the modern comic strip

The comic strip entered the adult world in the 1960s, allowing the artists more opportunity for self-expression.

Artists include: René Pellos; Jean-Marc Reiser; Marijac (Jacques Dumas); Fred (Othon Aristides); Jean Giraud (Moebius); Paul Gillon; Claire Bretecher; Jean-Claude Forest; Jean-Claude Mezieres; Jacques Tardi; Jacques Lob; Enki Bilal

Doonesbury U.S. Protest Stamp : 1990

The top two panels of the May 1990 Sunday comic shows Zonker Harris picked up his mail and looking disgusted. He says "Another 1989 postmark! Time to take action!This is followed by four panels with Zonker announcing his Protest stamps, along with a pseudo-sheet of 18 stamps featuring 2 designsHi! Former U.S. Postal Service Temporary Zonker Harris here! Have the proposed new postal rates got you steamed?Sure U.S. Postal rates would still be among the lowest in the world, but aren't ypu fed up anyway? Uhu?Sure you are! So why not affix these dandy 5c protest stamps to all your mail? What better way to send a message to your Postal Service?They're attractive, convenient and possibly illegal! So go ahead, slap on a U.S. Protest Stamp? You won't be sorry!

The Postal Service was not amused. A USPS spokesman told reporters that the Doonesbury stamps were "definately illegal." In fact, used risked a fine of $300. The USPS did report that many envelopes containing the bogus stamps were caught during the sorting process and removed from the mail stream. However there were some stamped envelopes that reached their final destination.

- Doonesbury's Cinderella Story: Protest Stamps and Comic Timing, Ashley Bowen-Murphy

Tales of Terror : 1997 United Kingdom

 

1997-May-13

1959-Sep-20 Romania : 500^th Anniversary of Bucharest – Prince Vlad Tepes and Document from 1459 - Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death in 1476/77. He was regarded as a hero in Romania due to his opposition to the Ottoman Empire and he is considered an important ruler in Wallachian history. Stories about Vlad's brutal acts began circulating during his lifetime. Works containing the stories about Vlad's cruelty were published in Low German in the Holy Roman Empire before 1480. The name Dracula was for centuries known as the sobriquet of Vlad III. Bram Stoker's Dracula, was the first book to make a connection between Dracula and vampirism - Wikipedia

“There lay the Count... the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheels were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood...” Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897

“His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing... but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes...” Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 1818

“Mr Hyde was pale and dwarfish' he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile... not all of these together could explain the hitherto unknown disgust...” The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 1896

“A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound... Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.” The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1901

Roald Dahl : Gibraltar - Europa 2010

2010-Apr

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, The Twits

Roald Dahl (1916 – 1990) was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. He has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".

The first book Roald Dahl and illustrator Quentin Blake worked upon together was “The Enormous Crocodile”. The two soon became firm friends, cementing one of the most eye-catching and distinctive collaborations in children’s literature.

Disney : 2004 France

2004-Mar-06 France - 2004 Stamp Festival