Chris Ware will design a special pane of 20 stamps to help the United States Postal Service celebrate its 250th anniversary.
Ware, one of the country’s best-known cartoonists, is known for his books including Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, The Acme Novelty Library, Building Stories, and Rusty Brown. He is the recipient of several Eisner and Harvey Awards for his comics.
“The 250 Years of Delivering stamps are a meticulously illustrated pane of 20 interconnected stamps that offers a bird’s-eye view of a bustling town,” the USPS says. “Each stamp is a frame of sequential art that tells the story of a mail carrier’s daily journey as she walks her route. Laid out in four rows of five stamps, the story progresses through the four seasons, from top-left to bottom-right.” The pane is co-designed by Antonio Alcalá, a USPS art director.
The USPS will also release a booklet of stamps, titled Putting a Stamp on the American Experience, which will provide “an in-depth look at some of the Postal Service’s most popular stamps.”
Both Ware’s pane of stamps and the new booklet will be unveiled at an event on July 23 at the USPS headquarters in Washington, D.C. Attendees can register here.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
