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New: Sunday Funnies exhibit at Cartoon Art Museum in SF
Comic Strip Classics in 2005, and Sunday Funnies 2010
Comic Strip Classics
Comic Strip Classics
The Comic Strip was 100 years old in 1995!
Pane of 20 stamps. The icon at the bottom-left indicates the plate position.
Characters
Characters
The Yellow Kid
The Katzenjammer Kids
Little Nemo in Slumberland
Bringing Up Father
Krazy Kat
Rube Goldberg’s Inventions
Toonerville Folks
Gasoline Alley
Barney Google
Little Orphan Annie
Popeye
Blondie
Dick Tracy
Alley Oop
Nancy
Flash Gordon
Li'l Abner
Terry and the Pirates
Prince Valiant
Brenda Starr, Reporter
Uncut press sheet of Comic Strip Classics (6 panes)
The Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative postage stamps were issued by the US Postal Service on October 1, 1995, to honor the centennial of the newspaper comic strip. The 20 stamps all are listed in the Scott catalog as No. 3000 for a pane and 3000a through 3000t for the individual stamps.
Restricted to strips created before 1950, the series featured drawings of comic-strip characters with their logos. The stamps were arranged in five tiers with four stamps to a tier.
Each of these 20 stamps features a comic strip classic. Daily and weekly newspapers have brought Americans cartoons since 1895. It is reported that 86 million adults and 17 million children in the U.S. read the Sunday comics each week! In fact, comic strips are considered one of America's only indigenous art forms.
The comic strip and its characters have popularized words and phrases, such as "I Yam Wot I Yam," from Popeye, and even the foods we eat, like the "Dagwood" sandwich from Blondie. Comics have become movies ("Popeye"), and Broadway Shows ("Annie"). This sheet honors comic strips created within the first 50 years of comics, from 1895 to 1945.
Fast facts
Fast facts
U.S. #3000
1995 32¢ Comic Strip Classics
Set of 20 Stamps
Issue Date: October 1, 1995
City: Boca Raton, FL
Quantity: 15,000,000
Printed By: Stamp Venturers
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: 10.1
Color: Multicolored
The Comic Times
First Day Covers
First Day Covers
Fleetwood collection
Witty World
Witty World
Comic Strip Classics appeared on the cover of WittyWorld #19
International Cartoon Magazine
Summer/Autumn 1995
Thanks for the photo: Bertdorn
Sunday Funnies
Sunday Funnies
In 2010, the U.S. Postal Service issued stamps honoring America’s favorite comic strips, including Beetle Baily, Archie and Friends, Dennis the Menace, Garfield, and Calvin and Hobbes. Whether through keen insights into human behavior, or side-splitting antics, the Sunday Funnies have provided comic relief for decades.
On July 16, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio, the Postal Service™ issued a 44-cent, Sunday Funnies commemorative stamp in five designs in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 stamps (Item 465500). The stamp pane, designed by Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, Maryland, goes on sale nationwide July 16, 2010.
The Sunday Funnies stamp pane honors five of our most beloved comic strips: Archie, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace, Garfield, and Calvin and Hobbes. Art director Ethel Kessler selected the images that appear on the stamps. #4467-71
Beetle Bailey
Beetle Bailey
The Beetle Bailey stamp features Beetle, smiling calmly while Sarge loses his cool.
A military strip with universal appeal, Beetle Bailey first appeared in September 1950. Possibly the laziest man in the army, Private Beetle Bailey is an expert at sleeping and avoiding work. His chronic indolence antagonizes Sergeant Orville P. Snorkel, who is tough on his men but calls them "my boys."
Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes
The Calvin and Hobbes stamp captures the precocious 6-year-old and his tiger pal making scary and ridiculous faces.
Calvin and Hobbes explores the fantasy life of six-year-old Calvin and his tiger, Hobbes. The inseparable friends ponder the mysteries of the world and test the fortitude of Calvin's parents, who never know where their son's imagination will take him. The strip ran from November 1985 to December 1995.
Archie
Archie
The Archie stamp features Archie sharing a chocolate shake with brunette Veronica Lodge on his right and blonde Betty Cooper on his left.
Offering an idealized portrait of American adolescence, Archie existed only in comic-book form before debuting in newspapers in 1946. A typical small-town teenager with a knack for goofing things up, 17-year-old Archie Andrews is often torn between haughty Veronica and sweet Betty.
Garfield
Garfield
The Garfield stamp features the crabby tabby standing back to back with Odie, a carefree, energetic dog.
Garfield first waddled onto the comics page in June 1978. Self-centered and cynical, Garfield hates Mondays and loves lasagna. He lives with Jon Arbuckle, a bumbling bachelor with a fatally flawed fashion sense, and Odie, a dopey-but-devoted dog.
Dennis the Menace
Dennis the Menace
The Dennis the Menace stamp features 5-year-old Dennis, dressed in red overalls and striped shirt, running off to some new adventure.
Dennis the Menace follows the antics of Dennis Mitchell, a good-hearted but mischievous little boy who is perpetually "five-ana-half" years old. His curiosity tests the patience of his loving parents and neighbors, guaranteeing that their lives are anything but dull. The comic debuted in March 1951 as a single-panel gag.
Sheet of 20
Sheet of 20
20 stamps
44 cents
$8.80
First Day Covers
First Day Covers
Bevil
Cachet by ___
Cachet by Bo
Cachet by Fleetwood
Cachet by Artcraft washpress.com
Cachet by BGC
Colorano "Silk" Cachet
Cachet by Postal Commemorative Society
(I can not find the gold version of Calvin and Hobbes)
Cachet by Tim Larin?
Stamp Ceremony
Stamp Ceremony
Front of card
Back of card
American Commemorative Panels
American Commemorative Panels
The first USPS Commemorative Panel was issued September 20, 1972 for the 8c Wildlife Issue Block of 4 (Scott #1464-67). Since then, nearly 1,000 different panels have been produced, one for almost every commemorative stamp issue for more than 40 years.
Usually, a panel will bear two or three engravings, more or less related to the subject of the stamps. Most of the engravings are great art work. Along, with these engravings is a text that provides an interesting insight into the stamp's subject. There, is often information about the subject that will be not be found from any other philatelic source. The 8.5 x 11.25 inch panels are a great addition to a specialized collection.
Oh, the irony....
Oh, the irony....
"The smaller and smaller reproductions meant there was less chance for visuals, less chance to draw well, less chance for the audience to appreciate good drawing and imaginative visuals.
If you are working to create a graphic entity, a pictorial representation of something, you don't want to see it shrunk down to a postage stamp."
– Charles Solomon, Critic / Historian of Animation & Comics
Screen shot from "Dear Mr. Watterson" [45:36]
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...Let's go exploring!
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