Cartoon & Comic Characters On Stamps!

Australia
National Stamp Collecting Month
October 2, 2001
Cartoon characters:
Cockatoos dancing to Animal Band
Kevin Koala with birthday cake
Ring-tailed possums eating
Bilbies at foot of tree
James Wombat on rope ladder
Wallaby, echidna and platypus on rope ladder

Cyprus
Aesop Fables
October 5, 2011
The Hare and the Tortoise
October 3, 2012
The Cricket and the Ant

Turkey
Turkish Cartoon Heros
April 20, 2006
The stamp set features Karaoglan, a Turkish historical comic book that was created in 1963 by Suat Yalaz.

San Marino
Centenary of the Death of Carlo Collodi
September 6, 1990
Carlo Lorenzini (pen name Carlo Collodi, 1826 - 1890) was an Italian writer of the world-renowned fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883). The stamp set features its main characters Pinocchio, Geppetto, La Fata Turchina, and Il Gatto e la Volpe.

Netherlands
Children Welfare
November 14, 1984
The stamp set features works of Dutch comic artist Joost Swarte: Music Education, At the Dentist, Plumber, and King and Butler.

Finland
NORDIA 93 Stamp Exhibition
October 9, 1992
The stamp set features Winter in Moominvalley, The Dangerous Journey, and The Invisible Child.

Belgium
The 80th Anniversary of Marc Sleen
December 30, 2002
Marc Sleen (1922 - 2016) was a Belgian cartoonist. He was best known for his comic strip The Adventures of Nero (1947 - 2002) which was featured in the souvenir sheet.

Mexico
Cartoon Character - Memin Pinguin
June 28, 2005
Memín Pinguín is a Mexican comic book character created in 1943.

Bolivia
Cartoon - Philately
June 12, 2001
The stamp set promotes stamp collection for children.

Spain
Comic Characters
May 4, 1995
Capitán Trueno, Carpanta
May 10, 1996
El Jabato, The Tribulete Reporter
May 30, 1997
The Masked Warrior, Ulysses Family
February 6, 1998
Mortadelo and Filemón, Zipi and Zape

Argentina, Mafalda, a child of Quino. First printed in Europe, by Editorial Lumen, Barcelona.

Netherlands
Cartoons
August 28, 2001
The stamp set features Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, Johnny Bravo, Dexter, and The Powerpuff Girls.

From South Korea:

Dooly, the little dinosaur by Kim Soo-jeung,
In 1983, Kim Soo-seung's creation "Dooly", the little dinosaur, opened a new era of commercialization of cartoon characters in advertisting, film and on television. Frozen in a block of ice, "Dooly" was preserved through the eons to live again in modern Korea. He typifies childhood in his thinking and behavior.





Kochuboo by Kim Yong-whan, Kim Yong-hwan's political comic character "Kochuboo", first appeared in the pages of a newspaper in 1942 as a means of enlightening Korean expatriates in Japan. Since then, the cartoon character with bulbous nose has emerged as a national icon loved by many Koreans.






Issued 4 May 1995.

Poland
Cartoon Characters
May 27, 2011
The stamp set features Gapiszon, Kwapiszon, Gucio and Cezar created by Bohdan Butenko (1931 - ), a Polish illustrator and author of comic books.

Ukraine
The Dragon Spell
June 1, 2017
The Dragon Spell is a 3D cartoon animation produced in Ukraine. The souvenir sheet shows its main characters Nicky the Tanner, the dragon, Rocky, and Eddie.