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Adolph S. Ochs was the publisher of The New York Times from 1896 to 1935, a career which earned him a U.S. commemorative stamp issue in 19...

Mad magazine's Marginal Thinking Department cartoonist Sergio Aragonés has renewed my faith in the art of the signed first day cover. ...

I have frequently expressed my perplexity at the phenomenon of first day covers signed by celebrities, particularly when the stamp and the s...

I like original cartoon art and I suppose I like first day covers too. Put the two together with some thought and I might just be impressed....

One of the very important parts of Eldon’s early career was his time spent working as a staff cartoonist for Disney beginning in 1944, prima...

It's Magic , the 1987 Royal Mail Christmas issue, was canceled in London with a commercial Hamley's postmark promoting "the fin...

Some time in the final decade of his life, cartoonist Ed Arno (1916-2008) signed a first day cover of the U.S. Space Discovery issue. He ad...

In 1978, the United States Postal Service issued a souvenir sheet to coincide with the Canadian International Postal Exhibition, or CAPEX. ...

What can a cartoonist add to a first day cover? Often not much, but once in a while everything on the envelope comes together synergisticall...

The autograph market is rife with postal covers bearing patently unrelated signatures. The thinking is that if one takes something collectib...

A group of ten items signed by eight comic strip cartoonists was sold at auction this past March in L.A. First day covers signed by a cartoo...