Oh, The Places Your Mail Will Go!

If you get a letter from me in the next year and you aren't the Gas Company, it will probably have one of these on it — the stamp that was unveiled today to honor the late Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel. I think it's terrific that he is being so honored, and also that the U.S. Postal Service didn't hire some other artist to execute an illustration of the Good Doctor and his characters. Unless I miss my guess, that's a slightly retouched photo surrounded by actual Seuss drawings, and I think that's great.

There's an unfortunate tendency sometimes to honor an artist by having another artist preempt their work. But this is all Seuss, all the time, so I've ordered a couple hundred. Rumor has it that we will see a Charles Schulz stamp before long. If so, I hope it's actually Schulz art. After all those years of not letting anyone else draw his strip, it would be a shame if someone else drew his stamp.