Arne Anka : 2008 Sweden

2008 Sweden

There was a cold war! Now it's global warming! Where did Lagom go?

Lagom is a Swedish concept of 'just the right amount' or 'in moderation'

Arne Anka is a Swedish comic strip drawn by Charlie Christensen from 1983-1995, 2006-forward. The title character is inspired by Disney's Donlad Duck (Kalle Anka). Arne often gets drunk at Zeke's bar, where he starts critically thinking about life, with a sharp wit.

Mineral water? It's environmentally unfriendly!

The Arne Anka stamp was part of an 8 stamp set celebrating Swedish cartoons/comics

Forlì Comics & Games : 2022 Italy

2022-Mar-12 Forlì Comic & Games convention postcard with commemorative pictorial postmark. The stamp features the artwork of Zerocalcare and was issued 2022 to celebrate Philately Day.  Forlì Comics and Games, founded in 2011, is the first and most original winter comics convention in Romagna. Forlì features a large market exhibition, fantastic guests, events, comics, games, video games, the legendary cosplay competition, meet & greets, K-pop, and guaranteed fun for four generations!

 

Cubitus - Youth Philately : 1994 Belgium

1994-Oct-09 Beglium

Cubitus is a Franco-Belgian comics series, created by the Belgian cartoonist Dupa. The series tells the story of Cubitus, a good-natured large, white dog endowed with speech. He lives in a house in the suburbs with his master, Sémaphore, a retired sailor, next door to Sénéchal, the black and white cat who is Cubitus' nemesis.

Krazy Kat - George Herriman : 1995 Classic Comics

1995-Oct-01 Boca Raton FL

Krazy Kat – George Herriman (1880-1944) – Krazy Kat was a surrealistic comic strip with changing backgrounds, poetic dialog, and strange props. While not widely popular in its own day, it's now generally considered to be a high mark of the art form. The strip ran 1913-1944. ©1995 King Features Syndicate Inc.

Largo Winch : 2010 Belgium

2010-Feb-20

Largo Winch is a Belgian comic book series by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme, published by Dupuis. It started as a series of novels by Van Hamme in the late 1970s, but stopped due to a lack of success. When artist Philippe Francq wanted to start a series with Van Hamme, he revived his old hero, and reworked the novels into the first albums of the comic book series.

Science Fiction - H.G. Wells : 1995 United Kingdom

1995-Jun-06 Royal Mail

Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells is most known today for his groundbreaking science fiction novels; he has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback

Time Travels - The Time Machine (1895)

Space Travel - First Men in the Moon (1901)

Alien Invasion - War of the Worlds (1898)

Futuristic Society -The Shape of Things to Come (1933)

Köroglu : 2022 Europa Stories & Myths

2022-May-09 designed by Selçuk Ören

Köroğlu destanı as Rushen Ali, the son of the stableman Koca Yusuf lives in Dörtdivan under the service of the Bey of Bolu. One day, Yusuf comes across a filly which, to his trained eye, is an animal that will turn into a fine beast if well-fed. Yusuf wants to give good fillies to the Sultan as a present to repair their worsening relationship. Being a man of foul and easily provoked temper, the Bey suspects that he is being mocked and orders the poor worker to be blinded.

Köroğlu harbors an ever-increasing hatred towards the Bey in his heart as he grows up. The mare, which he names Kırat, grows up with him and indeed turns into an animal of legendary stature and strength.One day, Hızır shows himself to Yusuf in a dream and tells him that soon, the waters of the river Aras will flow briefly as a kind of thick foam and whoever drinks that foam will be cured of whatever physical problems that may be ailing him, including blindness and aging. Yusuf goes to the shore of the river with his son, but his son drinks the foam before he does. As this miracle can give everlasting health and youth to only one man, Yusuf loses his chance to see again; and dies a few days later, ordering his son to avenge him.

Walt Disney : 1970 San Marino

1970-Dec-22 San Marino

Philanippon - Anime : 2011 Japan

2011-Jul-28 Astroboy, Doraemon, Pocket Monster Pickachu (Pokemon), Hello Kitty and Rabbit design (sticker style)

The Japan World Stamp Exhibition (PHILANIPPON) 2011 was held at Yokohama City from July 28 to August 2, aiming to enhance philatelic activities in Japan, and to promote the spread o Japanese stamps abroad, and to encourage cultural relations and international goodwill.

Sunday Funnies : 2010

2010-Jul-16 Columbus OH

2010-Jul-16, Columbus, Ohio, the Postal Service issued a 44-cent, Sunday Funnies commemora-tive stamp in five designs, designed by Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, Maryland.

The Sunday Funnies stamp pane honors five of our most beloved comic strips: Archie, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace, Garfield, and Calvin and Hobbes.

The Beetle Bailey stamp features Beetle, smiling calmly while Sarge loses his cool.

The Calvin and Hobbes stamp captures the precocious 6-year-old and his tiger pal making scary and ridiculous faces.

The Archie stamp features Archie sharing a chocolate shake with brunette Veronica Lodge on his right and blonde Betty Cooper on his left.

The Garfield stamp features the crabby tabby standing back to back with Odie, a carefree, energetic dog.

The Dennis the Menace stamp features 5-year-old Dennis, dressed in red overalls and striped shirt, running off to some new adventure.

USPS Bulletin PB 22287 June 17, 2010

Special Dedication Postmarks - Only the following pictorial postmark is permitted for the Sunday Funnies stamp. The word “Station” or the abbreviation “STA” is required somewhere in the design, because it will be a temporary station. Additional pictorial postmarks used at various Post Offices around the country can be found Pages: Classic Comic Stamps - 1995

Malta Comic Con : 2022 Malta

2022-Oct-29 Malta Comic Con

Selected artworks from 'Island Impressions' - published by (Heritage Malta) in collaboration with Wicked Comics.

The first stamp in the series, a shining dragon and a lone soldier preparing for battle, was designed by Malta postman Fabio Agios, a celebrated artist and comedian, co-founder of Malta Comic Con and co-author of The Golden Lizard - Malta's first comic novel.

The second stamp was designed by UK-based Lee Townsend, who has worked with some of the biggest names in comics, and his extensive production has had him design for Marvel, Disney and Dream Works. The Townsend style is largely inspired by the Gardjola at Fort Saint Angelo and there, it kicks off from the fortress with Salima in the background, a red and white muscular Maltese superhero!

Italian-born Mario Torresi is an artist established in the international comic art world and is currently pursuing his dream of working with some of the world's biggest comic publishers. Responsible for the nature who depicts the hunting couple with the grass of phoenix, drawing inspiration from sea, rock, old local costumes and carefree young people all in the face of the scorching sun – Malta Post

Spirou : 2006 France

2006-Feb-25 Paris France

Spirou is a Belgian comic strip character and protagonist in the comic strip series Spirou & Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou, and the eponymous character of the Belgian comic strip magazine Spirou.

The character was originally created by Robert Velter (Rob-Vel) for the launch of Le journal de Spirou (Spirou magazine) in 1938. Spirou was originally an elevator operator and bell-boy at the fictional Moustique Hotel. At some point he became a reporter for the eponymous magazine, though he remained dressed in his trademark red uniform.

Moebius - Communications : 1988 France

1988 Communications Moebius stamp, set of 12 different stamps focusing on forms of communication, including space travel, letters, smoke signals, mail.....

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (1938 – 2012) French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym Mœbius for his fantasy/science-fiction work, and to a slightly lesser extent as Gir, which he used for the Blueberry series and his other Western-themed work.

Bandes dessinées, also referred to as Franco-Belgian comics (BD franco-belge), are comics that are usually originally in French and created for readership in France and Belgium.

faux Moebius postage stamp by Kihm Winship