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Graphic Novelists

Canadian Stamp Series

Series Info

Name Value
Title Graphic Novelists
Year 2024
Stamp Count 10
Country Canada

Series Description

First Issue

The Graphic Novelists issue celebrates the work of some of Canada’s most talented and influential graphic novelists:

  • Chester Brown: Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
  • Michel Rabagliati: Paul à Québec
  • Seth: Clyde Fans
  • Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki: This One Summer

The four stamps highlight acclaimed novels by each author, who created original illustrations for their stamp designs that show the main characters engrossed in their own stories.

About the Graphic Novelists issue

Among Canada’s most talented and influential graphic novelists, Chester Brown, Michel Rabagliati, Seth, and Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki deftly interweave words and illustrations in their award-winning works.

These stamps – featuring an acclaimed novel by each author – show the main characters engrossed in their own stories through original illustrations created by the novelists themselves.

About the design

The stamp booklet cover features a photograph of the spines of the four graphic novels whose main characters are featured on the stamps. The back features a short text on the issue.

Second Issue

The Graphic Novelists issue celebrates the work of some of Canada’s most talented and influential graphic novelists:

  • Kate Beaton – Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
  • Jimmy Beaulieu – Non-aventures : planches à la première personne
  • Guy Delisle – Chroniques de Jérusalem (Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City)
  • Julie Doucet : Journal (365 Days)
  • Bryan Lee O’Malley – Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life
  • Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas – Red, A Haida Manga

The stamps feature original illustrations created exclusively for the issue.

About the Graphic Novelists issue

This set of six stamps – the second in a two-part series (the first was issued in 2024) – pays tribute to some of Canada’s most talented and influential graphic novelists – Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.

These stamps – featuring an acclaimed novel by each author – show the main characters engrossed in their own stories through original illustrations created exclusively for this issue.

About the design

The stamp booklet cover features a photograph of the spines of the six graphic novels whose main characters are featured on the stamps. The back features a short text on the issue.

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