Pacific Festival of Arts : 1980 Papua New Guinea

1980-Mar-26 Port Moresby

3rd Annual South Pacific Festival of Arts, held in Papua New Guinea 1908-Jun 30:Ju12

A singsing costume in Papua New Guinea is a vibrant, sacred ceremonial outfit made from natural materials like bird feathers, shells, leaves, and animal skins to showcase a tribe's unique heritage

The Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture (FestPAC) is the world’s largest celebration of indigenous Pacific Islanders, drawing artists, cultural practitioners, scholars and officials from member nations of the Pacific Community (SPC). FestPAC is held every four years in a different Pacific Island nation.

Savage Republic

Bruce Licher is a musician, artist, and designer who founded Independent Project Press after learning the art of letterpress printing at the Women's Graphic Center in downtown Los Angeles at the beginning of 1982. His initial projects centered around creating album covers, postcards, and promotional stamps for his band Savage Republic. It didn’t take long before he was producing work for other Los Angeles underground music groups, along with a growing number of clients in the Los Angeles design community. 

Licher was nominated twice for a Grammy Award for his album packaging, and has been credited with starting the trend in letterpress-printed CD and record packaging using industrial-style chipboard. His graphic design and letterpress work has been featured in two major design exhibitions at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, and has also been exhibited in California, Arizona, and Paris, France. After 17 years living and working in Sedona, Arizona, Licher and his wife, the artist Karen Nielsen Licher, have relocated Independent Project Press to the Eastern Sierra town of Bishop, California.

 Intrigued by the conceptual possibilities of creating a series of faux-postal stamp designs for his musical group, he designed and printed postcards, stamps, and stamped envelopes picturing the flag and logo he had created for the band.  In the process he crafted an aesthetic mystique unlike any other.  Bruce’s concept extended to using these Savage Republic “postal” creations on all of the mail sent out from his Independent Project Records label during the 1980’s (alongside the appropriate amount of valid U.S. postage, of course), along with creating special stamps commemorating Savage Republic’s tours.

Film Noir/O Adonis 45rpm vinyl record cardboard sleeve withe Savage Republic faux stamp

Bruce Licher

Åland folklore : 2022

2022-May-09 Stories and Myths - The ‘sjörå’ as known from Åland folklore, and the motif is largely based on stories recorded in the 1890s in Åland. The sjörå is a female water nymph who rules the sea and the lakes. Her beauty only extends to the front; from behind, she is a hollow stump. The sjörå, also known as mistress of the sea, is closely related to the mermaid. The water nymph has her own pots and pans of glittering copper that she scrubs by the lake shore, and she keeps her own livestock. The sjörå keeps a pike as a pet, so, be careful if you catch a particularly large pike!

Asterix : 1999 France

1999-Jun-03

The Adventures of Asterix is a series of French comic books by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). Uderzo has continued the series since the death of Goscinny in 1977. The series follows the exploits of a village of ancient Gauls as they resist Roman occupation. They do so by means of a magic potion, brewed by their druid, which gives the recipient superhuman strength. This is often used for comic effect, as in a recurring sequence where the villagers sally forth from their village to rout the attacking Romans so easily as to consider it great sport.

Youth Philately - Boule et Bill : 1991 Belgium

1991-Oct-12 Belgium

Youth Philately set of 4 stamps

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 stories center around a typical family: a man and his wife, their young son Boule and Bill the cocker spaniel.

Lucky Luke : 1990 Belgium

1990-Oct-13

Lucky Luke is a Western comic album series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris (Maurice De Bevere 1923-2001) 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.

The series takes place in the American Old West of the United States. It stars the titular Lucky Luke, a street-smart gunslinger known as the "man who shoots faster than his shadow", and his intelligent horse Jolly Jumper. Lucky Luke is pitted against various villains, either fictional or inspired by American history or folklore.

Kjell Aukrust - Ludvig : 1988 Norway

Kjell Aukrust (1920 – 2002) was a Norwegian author, poet, artist and humorist. Aukrust is principally known for his Flåklypa stories and Flåklypa drawings.  Aukrust is most famous for his creation of the fictional Norwegian village of Flåklypa populated with a cast of idiosyncratic characters. He created the imaginary mountain village of Flåklypa society while being an illustrator and columnist for the magazine Mannskapsavisa, with characters such as Reodor Felgen, Solan Gundersen, Ludvig and Emanuel Desperados.

1988-Nov-15 Norway stamps with Ludvig holding a ski pole and reading a letter 

Tom Poes - Marten Toonder : 1996 Netherlands

1996

Comic Strips Stamps – pays tribute to the vast collection of the dutch writer and cartoonist Marten Toonder (1912-2005). Two of his main characters, Mr Oliver B Bommel (Ollie B Bumble) and his young friend Tom Poes, are a source of inspiration to youngsters and adults alike

Tom Poes was a talking animal comic, published in text comics format. The main protagonists are Tom Poes, a white anthropomorphic cat, and his best friend, the bear lord Oliver B. Bommel. The series is sometimes referred to as the Bommelsaga as well. Toonder received many awards and honorary distinctions for both his illustrations and literary output. In the Netherlands Tom Poes became regarded as a work of literature.

Orion Space Patrol : 2016 Germany

2016-Sep-01 designed by Thomas Steinacker, Bonn.  "What sounds like a fairy tale today can be reality tomorrow. Here is a fairy tale from the day after tomorrow..." With these words, the German science fiction series "Raumpatrouille Orion" began on 1966-September-17

Today “Raumpatrouille Orion” is considered a German TV legend. The film music by Peter Thomas, who created the “New Astronautic Sound” for the series, also has cult status. The series, which took place around 1000 years in the future, dared to take a bold view - in the middle of the Cold War. The crew of the “Orion” united people of different origins from East and West in a time without nation states.

2019-Mar-16 Science Fiction Day postmark

Starlight Casino

Comics : 2021 Bosnia-Herzegovina - Post of Srpska

2021-Dec-10

The existence of comics is associated with the emergence of mass media. Although it initially existed as additional entertainment for newspaper readers, it soon became an independent medium or, as one likes to say, "the ninth art". At the beginning of 1997, the first comic magazine began to appear in Republika Srpska. The first issue of the magazine "The sad Notebook" appears in the edition of the house "Media-centar Prelom" in Banja Luka. During 2007, the "First Exhibition of Serbian Comics" was set up in Laktasi, and in 2008 the first comic book salon was held - "Laktasi 2008". Author: Dejan Sijuk

Myths and Legends : 2022 Bosnia-Herzegovina

Barbaroga (Boogeywoman)
Drekavac -  Drekavac (literally "the screamer" or "the screecher"[1]), also called drekalo, krekavac, zdrekavac or zrikavac, is a mythical creature in South Slavic mythology.  

2022-May-11

Myths and Legends : 2012 Botswana

2012-Sep-25

Tumtumbolosa - story of the creation of the world tells how the belly of the pregnant goddess Tumtumbolosa exploded, sending moon, stars, sun, rivers and living creatures bursting forth

Kgwanyape - legendary, supernatural water snake in Sesotho and Tswana mythology associated with violent weather, heavy storms, and natural disasters

Nonyane - Southern African folklore and language—specifically among Sotho-Tswana speaking cultures (such as the Basotho and Batswana)—the word "Nonyane" simply translates to "bird." Rather than referring to a single specific character or a standalone "Nonyane mythology," birds hold a deeply rooted, sacred position in Sotho-Tswana mythology, oral traditions, and clan systems (totemism)

Matsieng - foundational first ancestor and creator figure in Sotho-Tswana mythology from southern Africa. According to oral tradition, he emerged from the earth to bring humanity and the natural order into existence

All the Stars in Heaven - traditional Setswana and San (Bushmen) mythologies of Botswana, the stars and night sky hold deep spiritual, practical, and ancestral meaning 

How Death Came to the World - death came to the world because of a delayed message delivered by a slow tortoise and overridden by a fast rabbit

The World of One Piece : 2025 France

 

2025-May-06

Booklet of 12 self-adhesive green letter stamps illustrating the different members of the “ Straw Hat ” crew: Zoro, Sanji, Chopper, Brook, Jinbe, Robin … and their famous ship, the “ Thousand Sunny ” and a single issue stamp of Monkey D. Luffy designed by Mathilde Laurent.

One Piece is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, which follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his crew, the Straw Hat Pirates , as he explores the Grand Line in search of the mythical treasure known as the "One Piece" to become the next King of the Pirates.

Collector's set of 4 One Piece “Four New Emperors” Wanted posters of stamps (International Letter) designed by Emmanuel Vedrenne: 

Monkey D. Luffy - He's acquired the powers of the gum gum fruit, his body stretches like rubber and is impervious to blunt blows. 

Baggy apprenticed alongside Shanks on the crew of Gol D. Roger's crew. Now known as the "Clown of a Thousand Coins".

Marshall D. Teach has acquired the powers of the fruits of darkness and trembling. A former member of Whitebeard's crew.

Shanks le Roux (Luffy's mentor) once an apprentice sailor on Gol D. Roger's ship alongside Baggy