Note to self: I love my daughter, but make sure you keep her away from my Chester Brown and Joe Matt books

I know it's impossible but doesn't this look like Dan Clowes drew the art for this?

(Pinched from BoingBoing.)

One more and it's a trend: Another letter-themed blog by a cartoonist

What are the chances? After blogging the other day about the letter-themed Tumblr by Julie Doucet and Simon Bosse, I came across a Tumblr by Geneviève Castrée dedicated to her love of stamps. A cartoonist and philately nerd: does it get any better?

The site is called Perdus dans la poste (Lost in the mail) and is a joy to scroll through. I am shocked how emotional I got looking at some of these stamps.

(Raymond Briggs)

 

(I collected stamps as a kid in Ottawa, and remember the above ones very well.) 

As Castrée writes the site was inspired by the slow decline of the US Postal Service (where she lives). As she puts it:

"When was the last time you wrote a letter? The last time you licked a stamp?

Some will say that we need to modernize, that we don’t need what is physical, what is paper anymore. 

Well, honestly, if that is how you feel I find you to be heartless.  A properly functioning national mail delivery service is what I call CIVILIZATION."

I can go with that. More below.      

 

Postcards from the edge: Julie Doucet is posting her old letters online

This was a fun thing I stumbled across the other day: it's called POBox Archives, a Tumblr joint effort between Julie Doucet and Simon Bosse (a talented Quebec cartoonist). Most of them are from fans or other cartoonists, and harken back to the early 90s hey-day of Doucet's Dirty Plotte fame, which she has gone to great lengths to distance herself from in the 20 odd years since. 

 
There's a ton of fun stuff here, including postcards to Simon from Marc Bell (below), and one to Julie Doucet from cartoonist Jean-Christophe Menu from the early 90s, when he was about to establish the influential comics house L'Association.  

Then there's one from controversy-magnet Mike Diana c. 1995, which was written on the back of a form letter from Jack Daniels. Gotta check that one out. Here's the front:

It's only been up and running a couple of months, but I look forward to this weird peek into the past.