This is a very brief TV news item about the unveiling of the new postage stamps featuring five classic comic strips — Garfield, Beetle Bailey, Calvin & Hobbes, Archie and Dennis the Menace. Jim Davis is interviewed for five seconds and if you look quickly, you can see Mort Walker in there. To no one's surprise, Bill Watterson declined to participate but he did okay the stamp and one reporter scored a brief interview with him. Either the interviewer somehow didn't ask Watterson what he's working on these days or he did and the interviewee declined to answer.
The stamps are nice, of course…though I'm told that the copyright line for Dennis the Menace misspells the name of his creator, Hank Ketcham. There actually seems to be little mention of the cartoonists themselves in most of the p.r. material…and none whatsoever of the one who did the drawing of Archie that was selected for his stamp. Anyone know who it was? Doesn't look like Dan DeCarlo to me.
Here's the news report. It's very short…
