Hawkman : 2006 DC Comics

2006-July-20 San Diego CA

Hawkman – art by Murphy Anderson. Powered by the mysterious “Nth Metal” in his artificial wings, Hawkman soars through the sky above Midway City. When grounding the city's worst predators, the Winged Wonder relies on his mastery of Earth's ancient weapons, among them his mace and shield.

The Brave and the Bold #36 June/July 1961 Art by Joe Kubert.

Hawkman returned in 1960, a reincarnated hero from the earlier “Golden Age” of comics. The new Winged Wonder and his spouse Hawkgirl were intergalactic police officers from a distant planet, meting oout justice to the villains terrorizing Midway City - USPS

Pokuland - Edgar Valter : 2001 Estonia

2001

Edgar Valter (1929 – 2006) was an Estonian graphic artist, caricaturist, writer and illustrator of children's books, with over 250 books to his name, through 55 years of activity (1950–2005). His most famous work is Pokuraamat (The Poku Book).

First published in 1994, Pokuraamat tells the tale of Pokus. A poku is a grass mound that grows in southeastern Estonian bogs. In the book, Valter interprets pokus as animated childlike creatures, the grass actually being their golden head hair, which grows down to their feet. Its central theme is emphasizing the need to respect and to live in harmony with nature. In 1996, the book won the prestigious Nukits Competition award for best children's book of the year. Edgar Valter wrote two subsequent Poku-related books after that: Pokuaabits (The Poku ABC) (2002) and Pokulood (Poku Stories) (2004).

Childrens TV : 2014 UK - 2024 Guernsey

 

2014-Jan-07 Royal Mail

Royal Mail is celebrating over sixty years of classic children’s TV with a stamp collection. This special issue commemorates the 40th anniversary of Bagpuss, probably the most popular British children’s TV character of all time and the 50th anniversary of The Magic Roundabout.

Twelve of the most popular characters from children’s television are included in the set. The full line-up features - Andy Pandy, Ivor the Engine, Dougal from The Magic Roundabout, Bagpuss, Paddington Bear, Postman Pat, Windy Miller from Camberwick Green, Mr. Benn, Uncle Bulgaria from the Wombles, Bob the Builder, Peppa Pig, and Shaun the Sheep. (6 of the stamps are shown on the cover below)

2024-Jul-25 Guernsey - Bagpuss 50th Anniversary

Bagpuss is a British animated children's television series which was made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The series of thirteen episodes was first broadcast in 1974. The title character was "a saggy, old cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams". Although only thirteen episodes were produced and broadcast, the program remains fondly remembered by Briton. In early 1999, Bagpuss topped a BBC poll for the UK's favorite children's television program

GeGeGe no Kitarō : 1994 Japan

Medama-Oyaji (Eyeball Father)

1994-Jul-10

GeGeGe no Kitarō is a Japanese manga series created in 1960 by Shigeru Mizuki. It is best known for its popularization of the folklore creatures known as yōkai, a class of spirit-monster which all of the main characters belong to. This story was an early 20th-century Japanese folk tale performed on kamishibai. It has been adapted for the screen several times, as anime, live action, and video games. 

GeGeGe no Kitarō focuses on the young Kitarō—the last survivor of the Ghost Tribe—and his adventures with other ghouls and strange creatures of Japanese mythology. Along with: the remains of his father, Medama-Oyaji (a mummified Ghost tribesman reincarnated to inhabit his old eyeball); Nezumi-Otoko (the rat-man); Neko-Musume (the cat-girl) and a host of other folkloric creatures, Kitarō strives to unite the worlds of humans and Yōkai.

Sunakake Babaa (Sand-Casting Hag)

Konaki-Jiji (Old Man Who Cries Like a Baby)

Nezumi-Otoko (Rat Man)

BD Comic Festival : 2003 Luxembourg

2003-Jul-19 Festival of BD - Luxembourg

 

XX Romics Comic Festoval : 2016 Rome

2016-Sep-29 XX Romics - Rome

Cachet: The Mythical Six

Cachet: Captain Fox

70 Years of Independence : 2018 Isreal

2018-May-27 

70th anniversary of Israel’s independence with stamps that represent different eras in the history of Israel, beginning with the establishment of the state, a military jeep replaces the tractor on the stamp representing the next phase, defense and security, of the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s. For progress and development in the 1990s and early years of this century, the design depicts a man pushing a supermarket cart.

Caricatures and comics have been part of the world for many years, providing an amusing and oftentimes sarcastic look at our lives. As part of the celebrations for Israel's 70 Years of Independence, Michel Kichka illustrated three lighthearted and humoristic stamps depicting how far the State and citizens of Israel have come from 1948 to 2018 

Diabolik : postage meters

2008-May-31 Milan

2008-May-23:25 - Kover Kollection - Piacenza

2009-Jan-30 - Kover Kollection - Piacenza

2010-Mar-10 Milanofil - Milan

2011-Jan-21:22 - Kover Kollection - Piacenza

2012-Mar-23:25 Milan - Milanofil 2012

2013-Oct-18:20 Kover Kollection - Piacenza

2014-Oct-10:12 Kover Kollection - Piacenza

 

Myths and Legends : 2022 Jersey

2022-Mar-16 Jersey – Europa Stories & Myths - The issue focuses on ghost stories which have shaped Jersey’s history and culture. Two Europa stamps are included in the set and have been printed using spot UV ink, which means that elements of the stamp illustrations take on an eery glow under ultraviolet light.

The six Jersey ghost stories depicted on the stamps are: The Vioge of Crack Ankle Lane, The Woman in Black, The Belenji, The Bells of Les Minquiers, The Bride and Groom of Gorey Castle and The Soldiers of Vinchelez Lane. The two Europa stamps (The Belenji and The Bride and Groom of Gorey Castle) have also been presented together in a Souvenir Miniature Sheet. Stamps designed by artist Jensine Eckwall, Queens NY

John Bauer - illustrator : 1982 Sweden

 

1982-Feb-16

Knight on Horseback :: What a miserable little paleface said the Troll Mother :: Tuvstarr sits and gazes down into the water ::Now the Dusk of the Night is already upon us

John Albert Bauer (1882 – 1918) was a Swedish painter and illustrator. His work is concerned with landscape and mythology, but he also composed portraits. He is best known for his illustrations of early editions of Bland tomtar och troll (Among Gnomes and Trolls), an anthology of Swedish folklore and fairy tales. Bauer's favorite subject was Swedish nature, the dense forests where the light trickled down through the tree canopies.

Fairy Tales of Ancient China : 1987

Chang's flying to the moon, Kuafu Chasing the Sun, The bird Jingwei trying to fill the sea

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the PRC released on 1987-Sep-25 a set of six stamps on the theme of “Fairy Tales of Ancient China. Full of romance, fairy tales are naive explanation and happy yearning of the ancient people for natural phenomena and social life. The Chinese nation has an age-old history with splendid civilization. Its smart ancestors once considered the fairy tales of ancient times as the beginning or representation of Chinsese ancient civilization. Fairy tales of ancient China mirror lofty quality and indomitable spirit of our nation, from which one can seek philosophic theory of Chinese nation's long history

Lou Jiaben – deisnger of stamps, postmark and FDCs – PRC post

Giant Pan Gu: Creator of the Universe, Nu Wa: Goddess that Mends the Sky and Creates Human Beings, the Archer shot the nine suns down the sky

Yellow Kid - R.F. Outcault - 1995 Comic Strip Classics

1995-Oct-02 Kleinfeltersville PA

The BLUE Yellow Kid – While most people know the stoy of Ruchard Outcault's Yellow Kid in his nightshirt as the “first use of color” in a newspaper, the truth is the Yellow Ki first appeared on May 5, 1895 in a BLUE  nightshirt in a panel At the Circus in Hogan's Alley. The yellow nightshirt appeared Feb 16, 1896, fascinated readers and lent its name to “yellow journalism”, the war between Pulitzer's NY World and Hearst's NY Journal newspapers. The Yellow Kid is scarce on postcards, but there are thousands of other subjects to enjoy! - National Postcard Week postcard - - Middle Creek Art Press

Yellow Kid - R.F. Outcault - 1995 Comic Strip Classics

1995-Oct-01 Boca Raton FL

THE YELLOW KID – R.F. Outcault (1863-1928) The First popular newspaper color cartoon was Hogan's Alley starring the Yellow Kid. The tenement exploits of the Irish immigrant kid ignited public affection; when two New York papers fought over rival versions, “Yellow Journalism” was born, The cartoon ran 1895-1898