USPS puts Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield on stamps
Posted by GreenReaper (Laurence Parry) on Sun 11 Jul 2010 - 23:53 — Edited as of Sun 24 Jul 2011 - 21:56
The U.S. Postal Service is back with a collection of "Sunday Funnies", including characters from Calvin and Hobbes and Garfield. [tip: Earthfurst]
The stamps officially go on sale July 16, but are available for pre-order.
C&H fans might also like this interview with Bill Watterson, an event so rare it led to an interview with the interviewer.
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I am puzzled why Calvin and Hobbs are put on the same level as Archie and Beetle Bailey. Calvin and Hobbs had a good ten your run but frankly the went into obscurity as soon as it was pulled out in its prime. A stamp should celebrate and reward cultural relevance especially if such relevance and longevity still exist after discontinuing the strip . Calvin and Hobbs fails in the cultural relevance and longevity test.
It's hardly fallen into obscurity. The book collections are still sold in the shops and are still quite popular. And although it's only printing reprints of the ten-year run, the strip is still being run. I would say the stamp recognizes the strip's popularity and the impact it had on its readers and on other cartoonists during its run.
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