Beetle Bailey : 2010 Sunday Funnies

2010-Jul-16 Columbus OH

Addison Morton Walker (1923 – 2018) American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954. He signed Addison to some of his strips.

Beetle Bailey was first published September 4, 1950. It is set on a fictional United States Army post. Beetle was originally a college student at Rockview University, as of September 4, 1950. Although he was as lazy in college as he would be in the service, he did have a broken down jalopy and was the star of the track team (apparently on a scholarship). The comic strip Hi and Lois, co-created by Mort Walker and Dik Browne, is a spin-off from Beetle Bailey (Beetle's sister is Lois Flagston).

Over the years, Mort Walker had been assisted by (among others) Jerry Dumas, Bob Gustafson, Frank Johnson and Walker's sons, Neal, Brian and Greg Walker, who are continuing the strip after his death.

Commemorative postmark used 2010-Jul-16 California State Fair Sacramento CA and

2010-Aug-27 Columbia MO

Stam and Pilou : 2001 Belgium

2001-Oct-06

Marc Daniëls was a Belgian painter and comic creator. He is best known for his collaborations with Rik Dewulf (who called themselves "De Marck & De Wulf") in their Studio Max! comics, notably the children's adventure 'Stam & Pilou' (1999) for the Belgian postal services. In 1999, Studio Max! was hired by the Belgian postal service, La Poste, to create two mascots for their young stamp collectors' club and its magazine StamPilou . De Marck and Rik De Wulf introduced a boy, Stam, and a girl, Pilou, who lived in the same neighborhood. The good friends were often pitted against Pilou's grandfather, Fons, who was once a postman but is now a stamp collector. Known as The Unintentional Adventures of Stam and Pilou, the series was published in the club's magazine StamPilou, but was so popular that La Poste also launched a book series in cooperation with Standaard Uitgeverij

 

Green Lantern : 2006 DC Comics

2006-Jul-20 San Diego CA

Green Lantern art by Neal Adams – In 1970, writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams launched a new era of relevance in comics, crafting stories in which the Green Lantern – accompanied by his friend, Green Arrow – addressed important issues than considered taboo for the typical comic book.

Green Lantern #4 Jan/Feb 1961 – Art by Gil Kane & Joe Giella. As readers entered the Space Age, so did comics. Ace test pilot Hal Jordan took flight as Green Lantern, a galactic peace officer with an emerald power ring that could create virtually anything. Willpower and fearlessness marked Jordan as a hero for the times.

Commemorative postmarks:

2006-Aug-12 California State Fair - Sacramento CA

2006-Jul-17 MOCCA - Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art NYC

Ginger Meggs : 2021 Australia

2021-Spe-07 Australia

Ginger Meggs, created in 1921 by Jimmy Bancks, is one of Australia's most popular and the longest-running comic strip. The strip follows the escapades of a red-haired prepubescent mischief-maker who lives in an inner suburban working-class household. When Bancks died on 1952-Jul-01, Ron Vivian took over the strip (1953–1973), followed by Lloyd Piper (1973–1982), James Kemsley (1983–2007), and Jason Chatfield since 2007. In 2023, it was announced that the series would be discontinued.

First day cover signed by artist Jason Chatfield

c1930s Ginger Meggs fan club envelope

 

Luc Orient : 2001 Belgium

2001-Jun-13 Belgium - Youth Philately

Luc Orient is a science fiction comic series featuring an eponymous hero, created in 1967 by the writer Greg (Michel Greg) and the artist Eddy Paape. It belongs to the large family of Franco-Belgian comics. Orient first appeared in 1967 in the Tintin Magazine. The character of Luc Orient was inspired by Flash Gordon

Dusty Miller : 2011 Isle of Man

2011-May-10

The late Harold 'Dusty' Miller (1880-1961), commemorated in these stamps, became one of the most influential cartoonists on the Isle of Man and nearly 50 years after his death remains firmly established in the public’s consciousness.

His obvious talent resurfaced during World War I when he designed a Christmas card in 1917 whilst in the trenches, which was adopted by the Postmen’s Federation and sent to postal workers serving in the armed forces. After moving to the Isle of Man, his impressions of Manx life embraced both people and events, straddling both satire and topical matters. His main body of work fell between 1933 and 1962 capturing the thrust of political and social issues of the time. - excerpts - Valerie Caine © April 2011

 

Mavka: The Forest Song : 2020 Ukraine

2020 - Lesya Ukrainka - The Forest Song

The Forest Song is a poetic play in three acts by Lesya Ukrainka. The play was written in 1911 in the city of Kutaisi, and was first staged on 1918-Nov-22 at the Kyiv Drama Theater. The work is one of the first prototypes of fantasy in Ukrainian literature. 

2020 - Mavka: The Forest Song animated movie

Mavka: The Forest Song is an independently-made Ukrainian 3D-animated fantasy film. The completed 3D-animated fantasy was released in Ukraine 2023-Mar-02 by the Animagrad film studio (The Film.UA Group). Based on Lesya Ukrainka's play, The Forest Song, it portrays characters from Slavic and Ukrainian folk mythology.

Ukraine released a postage stamp featuring characters from the animated film "Mavka. The Forest Song" in November 2020 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lesya Ukrainka's birthday. The stamp features Mavka, her love interest Lucas, and a forest creature called Swampy

Mavka

Nina Hemmingsson : 2008 Sweden

2008-Sep-25 Swedish Manga

 Swedish cartoonist. She often draws single-panel cartoons featuring political and social criticism. An example of Hemingsson's work is Bäst i början ("Best in the Beginning"). Her work has been published in the magazines Galago and Bang, the Uppsala student newspaper Ergo and the newspaper Aftonbladet. She has also released three books, Hjälp! ("Help!"), Jag är din flickvän nu ("I'm Your Girlfriend Now"), and Demoner - ett bestiarium ("Demons - a Bestiary") for the publisher Ruin. Ahead of the 2010 wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling she made an anti-royalistic cartoon called "Prinsessan & Gemålen" for Aftonbladet

Pucho - Cucho : 2006 Cuba

2006-Jul-16 Havana Cuba

Virgilio Martínez Gaínza (1931-2008 Cuba) is a commercial artist and one of Cuba's most notable cartoonists. He began his career as a commercial artist in 1949, publishing his first political cartoon in A Barrer and then worked extensively in the underground press, such as Mella and Carta Semanal. Among his first comic creations was the lucky character 'Pucho', which later became 'Cucho', whose adventures appeared in the clandestine magazine Mella in the 1955-1959 period. He signed the strip with Laura, to protect himself from the repression of the Fulgencio Bastista regime. - Lambiek Comiclopedia

 

Pucho urinating on a picture of Batista

Las Adventuras de Cucho 1984

Edicion: Yolanda Borlado Vazquez / Nivel infantil © Virgilio Martinez 1984

© Sobre la presente edicion: Editorial Gente Nueva 1984 – Palacio del Segundo Cabo, O'Reilly no.4 Habana Vieja, Ciudad de la Habana Cuba

Peanuts : 2025 Royal Mail

2025-Jul-24

Royal Mail are marking the 75th anniversary of the internationally loved comic strip 'Peanuts' with a set of eight stamps. The stamps, all 1st class and in se-tenant pairs, feature images in a British theme including the classic Snoopy pose on a Royal Mail pillar box, playing football, Charlie Brown and Snoopy 'enjoying' the British weather and a birthday tea party.

Featured on the stamps are Charlie Brown, Snoopy Woodstock, Franklin, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Sally, Peppermint Patty and Marcie all in very distinct British elements

100 Years of Comics : 2011 Norway

2011-Sep-16 Oslo Norway - 100 Years of Comics

Mjau mjau by John Arne Sæterøy, who signs his work with Jason, is one of Scandinavia's most prominent artists of alternative comics. Born in 1964 in Molde, he started his comics career when he was only fifteen years old, publishing in the alternative Norwegian magazine KonK. In 1987, he enrolled at he Art Academy of Oslo to study graphical design and illustration, and subsequently studied at the National School of Arts and Industry. In 1995, a year after graduating, he published a realistically drawn graphic novel, 'Lomma full av Regn' ('Pocket Full of Rain'), for which he won the Sproing Award. - Lambiek

Hold Brillan by Christopher Nielsen - Nielsen is a Norwegian comics/graphic novels maker, dramatician and animation movie director. He is "grand old man" of Norwegian underground comics, and has enjoyed success also in more mainstream culture (theatre, movie, national TV) with his often grotesque characters and stories from the marginalized subcultures and classes of Norway: junkies, alcoholics, prostitutes, "rednecks" and so on – Good Reads

Nemi by Lise Myhre - Myhre is a Norwegian comic artist. She created the popular comic 'Nemi', about a goth girl. In a presentation of the Nemi strip, Myhre says that she thought her up for a goth-page in the Norwegian edition of The Far Side magazine in 1997, and that she never meant the series to have a main character. She just ended up liking Nemi so much she couldn't let her go. Myhre counts the Swedish cartoonist Charlie Christensen, Walt Disney ("as a kid") and Don Martin among her graphic influences – Lambiek

Pondus by Frode Øverli - Pondus is a comic strip created by the Norwegian cartoonist Frode Øverli. Since its start in 1995, it has become one of the most successful comic strips in Scandinavia. It has been translated to several languages, including Danish, English, German, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Latin, Sami, Swedish and Esperanto - Wikipedia

 

Osamu Tezuka : 1997 Japan

1997 Japan relases a seris of stamps commemorating their acheivements during the 50 years post World War II. The 5th series of stamps featured 3 famous figures from the field of entertainment:

Osamu Tezuka – (1928-1989) Japanese manga artist, cartoonist and animator. Considered to be among the greatest and most influential cartoonists of all time, his prolific output, pioneering techniques and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him such titles as "the Father of Manga”. Additionally, he is often considered the Japanese equivalent to Walt Disney, who served as a major inspiration during Tezuka's formative years.

Notable work : Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Princess Knight, Phoenix, Dororo, Animerama, Buddha, Black Jack

Additional entertainers honored were: Yujiro Ishihara - actor and Misora Hibari – singer and actress

Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump) : Astrid Lindgren

2019-Dec-05 Germany - Cartoon Heroes of Childhood

Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump) is the fictional main character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Pippi is red-haired, freckled, unconventional and superhumanly strong – able to lift her horse one-handed. She is playful and unpredictable. She often makes fun of unreasonable adults, especially if they are pompous and condescending. She is the daughter of a buccaneer captain and has adventure stories to tell about that, too. Her four best friends are her horse and monkey, and the neighbours' children, Tommy and Annika. Published 1945 in Sweden with illustrations by Ingrid Vang Nyman in 1945.

The first English language translation was published late in 1950 by The Viking Press in the United States with illustrations by Louis S. Glanzman.

2011-Jul-08 Sweden - Astrid Lindgren 100th Anniversary

1969-Nov-17 Sweden Fairy Tales : 1984-Nov-26 Switzerland : 1996-May-03 Sweden Famous Women