US Postal Service to Release "Simpsons" Stamps

Scott Beale blogs,

¡Ay, caramba! On May 7th the US Postal Service will be releasing a series of postage stamps commemorating The Simpsons. As part of the pre-release preview you can vote on your favorite Simpsons character and pre-order sets of the stamps.

Sneak peek at the images over at Laughing Squid. (Congrats, Boing Boing pals Matt Groening + David Silverman!)

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#1 posted by Chris Spurgeon, April 10, 2009 9:30 AM

Love the slightly old school look (season 2 or so) of the characters!

#2 posted by Brainspore, April 10, 2009 9:42 AM

Congratulations Mr. Silverman, you have now officially lived down your role in animating "Turbo Teen" back in 1984.

#3 posted by Slowermo, April 10, 2009 10:09 AM

Is Homer being choked?

#4 posted by dainel, April 10, 2009 10:11 AM

Keeping in mind the earlier article about Dune, did the USPS paid licensing fees to use this IP? Are they going to suddenly get a C&D from Fox?

#5 posted by Bevin, April 10, 2009 10:14 AM

Fantastic!

Anyone willing to mail a letter to me in Canada once these are released? ;)

#6 posted by Crashproof, April 10, 2009 10:46 AM

And to think Simpsons t-shirts were banned from my high school... a big Nelson "Ha, ha!" to that.

#7 posted by Anonymous, April 10, 2009 11:11 AM

Given the problems they have at the USPS, I would like to see Gil on one of those.

#8 posted by neurolux, April 10, 2009 2:42 PM

Oh crap! When did stamps go up to 44 cents?

#9 posted by Antinous / Moderator, April 10, 2009 2:46 PM

When did stamps go up to 44 cents?

You made me look at the stamps in my desk that I bought about a year ago. They don't have a number value. They say "first-class forever."

#10 posted by Chris Spurgeon, April 10, 2009 3:19 PM

re #4, yeah, the US government obtained the rights to the Simpsons characters, both for the stamps themselves and for related marketing the USPS may do around the stamps. I don't know, but I would be very surprised if the goverment paid for the rights, given what huge great publicity it is for the Simpsons.

#11 posted by Stefan Jones, April 10, 2009 3:33 PM

Stamps go to 44 cents in May.

I have plenty of 41 cent and "forever" stamps, but I'll buy a set of Simpsons stamps for sending Christmas cards and the like.

#12 posted by Anonymous, April 11, 2009 3:19 AM

Excellent!

#13 posted by darren, April 12, 2009 1:34 PM

A tasteful memorial to a fantastic TV show that died about 10 long years ago.