Thomas Kostron, also known as "TomTom," breaks rules on principle. The man who created the cartoon character of the same name has two official origin myths. On the one hand, he claims to have been born in 1512 as the son of Zeus and Aurora, abandoned in Arizona, and raised by Native Americans. On the other hand, he claims to be from the planet "Yoozq" and to subjugate humanity with his paintings, which he says contain subliminal messages.
As a student, Kostron had illustrated for magazines like "Ping Pong" ("completely absurd"), then for the youth section of the "Krone" and the "Kleine Zeitung." "That was frustrating because they always wanted something new after a year. But only then are you really familiar with your characters." So he looked for a motif for greeting cards. His unusual idea: black and white figures. In 1990, "TomTom," the little man with a bulbous nose and a hat, was created. TomTom quickly became the best-selling greeting card in Austria.
Suske en Wiske (Dutch) also known as Willy and Wanda (American) Spike and Suzy (UK) Luke and Lucy (2009 film and video game) Bob et Bobette (French) is a Belgian comics series created by the comics author Willy Vandersteen. It was first published in De Nieuwe Standaard in 1945 and soon became popular.
The books revolve around the adventures of the eponymous Suske en Wiske, two children, along with their friends and family. The stories combine elements of comedy, fantasy, and science fiction, such as talking animals, time travel and ghosts.
Wiske! Wiske!... Come quickly with Pen's laundry basket! There was a whole pile of it in front of the door!
He initially appeared in a cartoon strip called Der Globi, and later appeared in a cartoon picture-book form called Globi's World Voyage in 1935. By 1944, the character gained so much popularity that Globus created a separate company for their mascot, and in 1948 Globi had sold over one million picture books.
The stamps designed by Rose Design, feature: Mark Inkpen's 'Kipper', The Tale of Jeremy Fisher' from Beatrix Potter's books, Roald Dahl's 'The Enormous Crocodile', Michael Bond's 'Paddington Bear', 'Comic Adventures of Boots' by Satoshi Kitamura, 'White Rabbit' from Lewis Caroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, Maisey's ABC by Lucy Cousins
Never Land cinderella stamp
April 27, commemorates the 25th annual International Comic Art Exhibition organized by the Quevedo Institute of Comic Arts.The single 3.30 stamp in the sheet depicts a caricature of Spanish poet, writer and satirist Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645). Drawn by Ricardo Martinez, the caricature appeared on the cover of the March 1997 issue of the graphic humor magazine Quevedos.Works of other artists are shown in the border surrounding the stamp.
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.
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.
