The Simpsons Stamps


The US Postal Service will begin selling stamps featuring The Simpsons on May 7th. The first-class stamps will be worth 44 cents each.
“This is the biggest and most adhesive honor The Simpsons has ever received,” said Matt Groening, creator and executive producer of The Simpsons.

Link -via J-Walk Blog

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.
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"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.
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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 [...]."
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@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.
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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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