Sunday Funnies Postage Stamps Coming in 2010 for Calvin & Hobbes et al.

[Are_grits_groceries]

The United States Postal Service recently announced its stamps of 2010, including one particular set that I think will be of interest to you all: The Sunday Funnies Collection! Based on popular newspaper comic strips, the series will include stamps involving Archie, Garfield, Dennis the Menace, the cast of "Beetle Bailey," and my personal favorites, Calvin and Hobbes!

It speaks well of "Calvin and Hobbes" creator Bill Watterson -- and his decisions to both end the comic in its heyday and to resist merchandising it -- that as the strip sits among so many "classic" comic strips, it still seems fresh, exciting and vital, while most of the others just seem rote, exhausted, and exceedingly far past their prime.

While I would have vastly preferred an entire set of C&H stamps -- perhaps involving Stupendous Man, Calvinball, or snowman art -- I'm still thrilled that I will soon be able to turn the upper right-hand corner of my envelopes into a tiny, two-way mirror where my favorite boy and tiger can make faces at me and the recipients of my letters.

They go on sale in July.



http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/01/04/comic-strip-postage-stamps-coming-in-2010-for-calvin-and-hobbes/

I wish they all were C&H too. I'll buy a book just to save them. Watterson approves zip in merchandising.

[omega minimo]

1. Rec 5

"... it still seems fresh, exciting and vital, while most of the others just seem rote, exhausted, and exceedingly far past their prime."

Kudos for the lack of merch and also: the inimitable drawing is what makes C&H seem "fresh, exciting and vital."

[pnorman]

2. Hardcore C & H fanatic here!

Whenever I see a C & H related posting here, I dig up these two websites and post them:

http://www.marcellosendos.ch/comics/ch/index.html

http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html (Snow Art)

ENJOY!

I believe I have ALL the Calvin and Hobbes books, and can take great pleasure going through them time after time ater time. Very FEW cartoonists could hold up to that high standard (Although Gary Larsen comes damn close!). There is one frame in that collection that I recall well. In defiance of Watterson's Iron Rule, Hobbes appears as a LIVE tiger when another human other than Calvin is present (Suzy). I may spend the next few days, going through them all in search of that 'rogue' frame!