The Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative postage stamps was issued by the US Postal Service in 1995 to honor the centennial of the newspaper comic strip.
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. The featured strips are listed here in the sequence as published:
- 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
Famous quotes containing the words comic, strip and/or classics:
“The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
“Perfect present has no existence in our consciousness. As I said years ago in Erewhon, it lives but upon the sufferance of past and future. We are like men standing on a narrow footbridge over a railway. We can watch the future hurrying like an express train towards us, and then hurrying into the past, but in the narrow strip of present we cannot see it. Strange that that which is the most essential to our consciousness should be exactly that of which we are least definitely conscious.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)