The Simpsons Stamps

1. ollirudi
   April 10th, 2009 at 11:57 am

   Those look charmingly off-model compared to the streamlined versions we've become accustomed to, were they drawn by Groening himself?

2. uh huh
   April 10th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

   i love maggie!

3. Emill
   April 10th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

   They look like first season drawings. When the simpsons were really dysfunctional. Awesome!

4. MrPumpernickel
   April 10th, 2009 at 2:42 pm

   Doesn't really look like first season drawings, they at least had uniform line widths back then, just like they do now. More than anything these look like they were drawn by a complete hack, or a three year old, take your pick.

5. DOJ
   April 10th, 2009 at 3:40 pm

   why's the 44 crossed out?

6. Miss Cellania
   April 10th, 2009 at 3:57 pm

   DOJ, I believe that is so no one will print these pictures out and glue them to a letter.

7. dgaicun
   April 11th, 2009 at 2:36 pm

   "More than anything these look like they were drawn by a complete hack, or a three year old, take your pick."

   Actually they look funner, more whimsical and expressive than the regular cartoon. I wish the show looked more like the stamps. I will bet you anything Groening himself is the artist.

8. dgaicun
   April 11th, 2009 at 2:40 pm

   "Artwork for the images was done by the cartoon's creator Matt Groening..."

   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7975925.stm

9. Neil C
   April 11th, 2009 at 3:36 pm

   It's surreal to actually be completely, totally tired of these faces- and to think there was once a time when such a despiser of pop culture as myself wouldn't paste such 'stamp-vertisements' with the slightest shame. Regrettably, it's now an exercise in cocktail party thought-provocation to argue that Simpsons was once so ingeniously cutting-edge* that it stood as the only excuse for TV set signal reception. He should have bowed out with honor and actual humor with BEHIND THE LAUGHTER, which I doubt I'm alone in considering the true finale. But then MG always was a particularly contemptible douche.

   *cutting-edge, not in the lazy, vulgar way with which FG now has Simpsons beat as the funnier show by far. The early-90s Simpsons would never rest its appeal on mere grossness parcel-pushing, let alone the shameless, relentless FG device of cutting away every 30 seconds with "like that time when [...]."

10. Miss Cellania
    April 11th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    What's FG?

11. DaMamaJama
    April 11th, 2009 at 6:37 pm

    FG = Family Guy, and other than a few gems (stewie's recent "Everything I Do" music video), FG is just about as unfunny as the Simpsons

12. DOJ
    April 12th, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    @Miss Cellania - that was my thought except the line is so small, and recreating whats under it would be easy. So I thought there must be a better/other reason.

13. ted
    April 13th, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    Simpsons is too busy recycling itself to bother with genuine humour.
    Family Guy sucks.
    Just ask Eric Cartman.

14. Rick
    May 7th, 2009 at 11:29 am

    I like the cartoon but it is totally wrong to put them on a US postage stamp. And the peel and stick kind produce a mountain of trash so are not environmentally friendly. Lets go back to proper designs and no trash attached to our stamps.

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