Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry : 1994 Croatia

1994-Sep-02 Croatia

50th anniversary of the death of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Saint-Exupéry's drawing of the Little Prince

PhilexFrance 99 - 1999-Jul-02 - postal stationery: pre-stamped postcard

 

Bédéciné International Festival of Comics : 1996 Illzach France

1996-Nov-10:11 Boule et Bill

Bédéciné International Festival of Comics (BD - Bandes dessinées) Illzach Cultural Centre, is the must-attend event for comic book fans. More than meetings with many authors, numerous activities are also organized: exhibitions, drawing workshops, animations, stories, shows.

Illzach is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.

Shrimpenstein Monster Green Stamps : 1967

Shrimpenstein Fan Club – Shrimpenstein was the title character of a short-lived but well-remembered 1967 kids' show on Channel 9 in Los Angeles. Shrimpenstein ran every Monday through Friday at 5:00 in the afternoon. The show was performed with similarities to the Soupy Sales show, a host performing with a puppet and interacting with off camera crew. The show offered a Fan Club package for $1.00 with included a membership card with a secret code on the back, a 45rpm record featuring the theme song, 15 Monster Green Stamps and a mini letter with information for club members. The mini letter features a cartoon image of the Shrimpenstein puppet, which is the same images as seen on the first Monster Green Stamp. The host of the show Dr Rudolph von Schitck, was portrayed by Gene Moss.

Other stamp images include Wilfred the Weiner Wolf, The Hot Rod Monster, Ugly-Buggly, Squid-Kid, Punky, The Tijuana Bats and others. I found the stamp image on the TV horror show nostalgia site, and on an auction site, but have not found a better for display.

Graphic Novels : 2025 Canada

2025-Nov-20

The second in a two-part series, this set of six stamps pays tribute to some of Canada’s most talented and influential graphic novelists: Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. Each graphic novelist worked with Canada Post to create original drawings, exclusively for this stamp issue, featuring the main characters from one of their most celebrated works.

Kate Beaton is the creator of the autobiographical Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, which depicts her experience of working in the Northern Alberta oil sands and in 2023 became the first graphic novel to win CBC’s prestigious Canada Reads

Jimmy Beaulieu is a prominent figure in the francophone comic book community and with a number of titles to his name, including 2013’s Non-aventures : planches à la première personne, a collection of anecdotes and reflections of the ordinary “non adventures” of his everyday life in Montréal.

Guy Delisle uses a simplistic drawing style and sparse, candid storytelling to chronicle his extensive travels in places like North Korea, Burma, as well as parts of Palestine, the West Bank, and Israel, which became the basis of the award-winning Chroniques de Jérusalem.

Julie Doucet is included in the Joe Shuster Awards’ Canadian Comic Book Hall of Fame and is a recipient of the Grand Prix for lifetime achievement at the Angoulême International Comics Festival – the most prestigious award in the comics industry. Her autobiographical works include Journal (365 Days).

Bryan Lee O’Malley is the writer and illustrator behind the popular Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series, which found a cult audience and spawned a popular major motion picture, video game, and animated series.

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is a multimedia visual artist who created his own illustrative style by blending Asian brush techniques with North Pacific Indigenous iconography, which can be seen in his 2009 graphic novel, Red: A Haida Manga.

Boule et Bill : 2002 France

2002-Mar-16

Boule et Bill is a popular comic, created in 1959 by the Belgian writer-artist Jean Roba in collaboration with Maurice Rosy. In 2003 the artistic responsibility of the series was passed on to Roba's former assistant Laurent Verron. 

The ambition was to make a sort of European Peanuts. Boule et Bill relates the homely adventures of young boy Boule and his dog Bill, a Cocker Spaniel, as well as that of Boule's mother and father and Caroline the turtle. Bill, while slightly anthropomorphized, basically acts as a normal dog, and the whole series places comical adventures in the realistic setting of a normal family in a normal town, with normal lives. Most of the gags happen in or around the house, but also include an almost yearly holiday setting with the family traveling away from home, usually at the beach.

Porky Pig - Looney tunes : 2001

Porky Pig is a fictional cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts featuring the character. Even after he was supplanted by later characters, Porky continued to be popular with moviegoers and, more importantly, the Warners directors, who recast him in numerous everyman and sidekick roles.

He is known for his signature line at the end of many shorts, "(stutter) that's all, folks!" Porky is the oldest continuing Looney Tunes character.

Porky was introduced in the short, I Haven't Got a Hat (1935-Mar-02), directed by Friz Freleng. Studio head Leon Schlesinger suggested that Freleng do a cartoon version of the popular Our Gang films. Porky's name came from two brothers who were childhood classmates of Freleng, nicknamed "Porky" and "Piggy".

Porky Pig commemorative postmark

2001-Oct-02 Youngtown AZ

2001-10-02 Birmingham, AL : 2001-10-02 Tyndall, NY : 2001-10-03 Edmore, ND

2001-10-05 Billings, MT : 2001-10-09 Shellsburg, IA : 2001-10-10 Kiamesha Lake, NY

2001-10-11 Tucker, GA : 2001-10-15 Jasper OH : 2001-10-16 Centerport, NY

2001-10-16 Hopewell Junction, NY : 2001-10-17 Perth Amboy NJ : 2001-10-24 Thompson, NY

2001-10-24 Thompsonville NY : 2001-10-25 Monticello KY : 2001-10-30 Manitowish Waters WI

2002-02-27 Iowa City IA

Snoopy : 2000 Portugal

2000-Oct-06 Lisbon Portugal

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.