Snoopy : 2001

2001-May-17 Santa Rosa CA

This 2001 stamp pane commemorates the comic strip “Peanuts” with the character Snoopy. Drawn by Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000), “Peanuts” began in syndication on October 2, 1950. The installment published on Sunday, February 13, 2000, was the last original comic strip by Schulz, who died the previous day. The stamp was designed by Carl Herrman of Carlsbad, CA

1972-Jul-26 Houston TX

The Skylab Medical Experiment Altitude Test, or SMEAT, was a 56-day simulation of an American Skylab space mission from 26 July-19 September 1972 at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas. The astronauts in the test were Bob Crippen, Karol Bobko, and William Thornton, who simulated space experiments, housekeeping and leisure activities in a hypobaric chamber. SMEAT provided a baseline for the in-orbit portion of biomedical experiments on Skylab.

Charles Schulz donated the character of Snoopy to promote spaceflight safety and inspire the public, leading to the creation of the Silver Snoopy Award and his role as a safety mascot and space program symbol. The image of Snoopy was used in various ways by NASA since the Apollo Space Program

Jules Verne

1955-Jun-03 France

Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 –1905) French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account contemporary scientific knowledge and the technological advances of the time.

James Thurber : 1894-1961

1994-Sep-10 Columbus OH

James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker and collected in his numerous books.

Thurber was one of the most popular humorists of his time and celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people. His works have frequently been adapted into films, including The Male Animal (1942), The Battle of the Sexes (1959, based on Thurber's "The Catbird Seat"), and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (adapted twice, in 1947 and in 2013).

Walt Kelly - Pogo : Puce Stamps 1963

Kelly, Walt [Disney Animator]

Pogo Puce Stamp Catalog by Walt Kelly

Simon & Schuster, 1963. First Edition. Paperback. 95 pp.

A sheet of 9 stamps featuring nine different characters from the Pogo comic strip which were used only for a very short period of time as an inclosure to mailings to booksellers, reviewers and papers carrying the strip. Being Kelly's comment on the S & H Green stamps and the Gold Strike Stamps they were never sold or otherwise distributed.

"Puce Stamps are the only completely Worthless trading stamps! This catalog guarantees to deliver none of the worthless items mentioned herein! Only Puce Stamps can make that claim! However! There are a few promises we here at Puce Stamps can keep...and you may agree we can keep them."

 

Discworld : 2023 Royal Mail

2023-Aug-10

Discworld is a fantasy comedy book series written by the Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle. The series began in 1983 with The Colour of Magic and continued until the final novel The Shepherd's Crown, which was published in 2015, following Pratchett's death. The books frequently parody or take inspiration from classic works, usually fantasy or science fiction, as well as mythology, folklore and fairy tales, and often use them for satirical parallels with cultural, political and scientific issues. The books inspired several movies, both live-action and animated

Illustrated by Paul Kidby, the stamps celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Colour of Magic, the first book in the series

Terry Pratchett

 

Classic Children's Books : 1985 Australia

1985-Jul-17 Sydney Australia

Blinky Bill - Dorothy Wall's book about a native Koala was published in 1933, a time when Australians were concerned about Koala endangerment. Public sympathies were receptive to the Blink Bill character and children instantly related to his mischievous nature

Ginger Meggs – one of the world's oldest continuing cartoon strips, originating in 1921 by James Chalres Bancks

Pictorial first day postmarks for Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, Elves and Fairies and The Magic Pudding

Snugglepot and Cuddlepie – May Gibb's gumnut babies have delighted generations of Australian children since they first appeared in 1918

Elves and Faires (1916) – The Little Witch, pictured on the stamp, is just one of the charming illustrations by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite from book Elves and Fairies

The Magic Pudding: Being The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff is a 1918 Australian children's book written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay.

Paddington Bear : 2023 Royal Mail

2023-Sep-05 Paddington Bear 65^th Anniversary : The marmalade-loving Peruvian bear will feature on six postal stamps taken from Ivor Wood's cartoons, which were originally published in the London Evening News in the late 1970s as the character became a star of the small screen.

Paddington Bear first appeared as a character in Michael Bond's classic 1958 book 'A Bear Called Paddington'. The bear is adopted by the Brown family in London after arriving at the train station he is named after. He has been featured in 29 books written by Bond, the books have been illustrated by Peggy Fortnum, David McKee, R. W. Alley, and other artists.

David Gold, director of external affairs and policy at Royal Mail, said: “Paddington continues to bring cheer to generations of children worldwide. These delightful stamps will brighten up the day of anyone receiving mail with a touch of Paddington’s charm.” 

                                                   

Lucky Luke : France 2003

2003-March-15

Lucky Luke is a Western comic album series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1946. Morris wrote and drew the series single-handedly until 1955, after which he started collaborating with French writer René Goscinny. Their partnership lasted until Goscinny's death in 1977. Afterwards, Morris collaborated with several other writers until his own death in 2001. Since Morris's death, French artist Achdé has drawn the series, scripted by several successive writers. 

Editorial Cartoonists : 2021 Canada

2021 : Canada Post featured the work of five homegrown editorial cartoonists – all members of the Order of Canada and multiple winners of industry awards:

The editorial cartoonist for The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, Bruce MacKinnon (b. 1961) grew up in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, studied fine arts at Mount Allison University and graphic design at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He began his career as a freelancer, drawing weekly cartoons for the Herald before the paper hired him full time in 1986.

Toronto-born Duncan Macpherson (1924-93) is widely considered to be Canada’s greatest editorial cartoonist. During the Second World War, he packed bombs in England and took art classes in his spare time. His veteran’s pension paid for studies at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and Toronto’s Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University). Macpherson worked at The Standard in Montréal and Maclean’s. He then joined the Toronto Daily Star where he changed the role of Canadian editorial cartoonists by retaining his status as an independent contributor, producing drawings that sometimes opposed the publisher’s editorial position.

Born in 1949 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Brian Gable studied fine art at the University of Saskatchewan and education at the University of Toronto. In the 1970s, he became a freelance editorial cartoonist for the Brockville Recorder and Times while teaching art in Brockville, Ontario. Hired full time by the Regina Leader-Post in 1980, he later joined The Globe and Mail, where he has been the editorial cartoonist for more than three decades

Serge Chapleau (b. 1945) – known by his last name – grew up in a working-class Montréal neighbourhood and studied painting and graphic arts at the Montreal School of Fine Arts. His career was launched in 1972 after his clever caricature of Quebec singer Gilles Vigneault ran in the widely read weekly Perspectives. Chapleau’s work also appeared in Montréal-Matin, L’actualité, Le Devoir and 7 Jours, and in 1996, he became the editorial cartoonist at La Presse. In 2004, his popular puppet character Gérard D. Laflaque was brought to life on the television satire Et Dieu créa…Laflaque.

Better known as Aislin, Terry Mosher was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1942. After taking art courses in an Ontario technical school, he enrolled in the École des beaux arts de Québec. Graduating in 1967, he began his career drawing caricatures on the city’s streets. Mosher landed his first job as an editorial cartoonist at the Montreal Star before moving to the Montreal Gazette, where he has used his art to make wry comment on world events for nearly 50 years.

Gaston Lagaffe : 2001

Gaston (1957-1997) is a Belgian gag-a-day comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin (1924-1997) in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou. The series, serving as a spin-off of the magazine's primary series Spirou et Fantasio, focuses on the everyday life of Gaston Lagaffe (whose surname means "the blunder"), a lazy and accident-prone office junior who works at Spirou's office in Brussels.

Gaston is very popular in large parts of Europe (especially in Belgium and France) and has been translated into over a dozen languages.

In 2023, the series was revived by Franco-Canadian author Delaf.

André Franquin ws commemorated in 2024-Jan-25