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
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.
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
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
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 – (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
The first English language translation was published late in 1950 by The Viking Press in the United States with illustrations by Louis S. Glanzman.
In the early 1920s and set up the Disney Brothers Studio (now the Walt Disney Company) with his brother Roy. With Ub Iwerks, he developed the character Mickey Mouse in 1928, his first highly popular success; he also provided the voice for his creation in the early years.
As a film producer, he holds the record for most Academy Awards won (22) and nominations (59) by an individual. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress and have also been named as some of the greatest films ever by the American Film Institute.
While postal regulations at the time stated that any non-presidential individual honored on a commemorative stamp must be dead for ten years, the support for a Disney tribute was overwhelming. The Office of the Postmaster General corresponded with hundreds of Americans requesting a Walt Disney stamp, receiving letters from private citizens as well as the Walt Disney Studios, Governor Ronald Reagan, actors Fess Parker and John Wayne, and a number of United States Congressmen.
The Salone Internazionale dei Comics ("International Congress of Comics") was launched by a Franco-Italian partnership, consisting of Italians Rinaldo Traini and Romano Calisi and Frenchman Claude Moliterni (forming the International Congress of Cartoonists and Animators), and was first held 21–22 February 1965 in Bordighera, Imperia.
In 1993, after the Salone Internazionale dei Comics left Lucca, city leaders launched a new convention called simply Lucca Comics that was a reprise of the old one. In 1995, it changed its name to Lucca Comics & Games.
