Tag Archive | "stamps"

Musical stamps

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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The Royal Mail has just issued a set of stamps celebrating popular stage musicals. Garen Ewing is rather pleased that among them is one for Return to the Forbidden Planet, featuring his artwork, along with Leigh Gallagher‘s take on the immortal Rocky Horror Show. Sudden urge to sing a song. And take a jump to [...]

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One Piece stamps for Japan

Monday, February 7, 2011

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Helen McCarthy reports that the mail service in Japan will be issuing a series of colourful stamps featuring Eiichiro Oda’s hugely popular manga One Piece, coming in March. (tip of the hat to Peter Stanbury for the link)

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Cracking Christmas stamps, Gromit!

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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Wallace and Gromit, the loveable, Oscar-winning animated duo from national treasure Aardman, are the stars of this year’s Royal Mail stamps in the UK, with a range of different designs due to launch in November, reports the BBC. Creator Nick Park approached the stamps in a similar manner to how he visualises a scene for [...]

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Cartoon stamps

Monday, January 18, 2010

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Bloghorn reports that the US Postal Service has a number of comics and cartoon themed postage stamps on the way this year, with Pulitzer-winning and World War Two veteran cartoonist Bill Mauldin being honoured with his own stamp come March, while in July there’s a whole set of stamps, Sunday Funnies, which will feature characters [...]

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Classic rock art

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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The Royal Mail has produced a set of stamps celebrating the classic artwork of  rock and pop albums from the last four decades, with art from cover sleeves of works like pink Floyd’s Division Bell, Led Zepplin IV, the Rolling Stones’ Let it Bleed and Blur’s Park Life being among the cover designs chosen for [...]

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Petit Nicolas stamps

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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The French post office is issuing stamps featuring Le Petit Nicolas, created by Asterix co-creator René Goscinny and cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé. According to Wim’s Ephemerist blog the stamps are being issued to coincide with a Petit Nicolas movie. Bon!

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