Another month is over so here are some belated News:
- San Marino issued on 12th July a sheet of four stamps about the 60th anniversary of the Italian comic character Diabolik.
- During the French Japan Expo on 15th July it was revealed that the theme of this year's French Jeunesse issue will be Naruto. A few day earlier it was revealed on Twitter that it will be an anime-themed stamp. The issue date of the single stamp will be the 10th October. It seems like this year there will not be an additional booklet. On another note it was already announced that in 2024 there will be an issue about the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême.
- The image of the Austrian Lego stamp can now be seen on the Internet. It shows the Ferriswheel of Vienna as Lego model. Switzerland has now also announced a Lego issue for November consisting of two stamps.
- On WOPA you can now buy Armenia's latest cartoon stamp. It was issued on 29th July and shows Vin the Penguin.
- Still no news about the Lord of the Rings issue from New Zealand, but as was recently made public New Zealand Post had to withdraw an issue about the Maori Language Petition before the release (see Commonwealth Stamp Opinion #2128). I doubt that there is a similar reason for the LOTR issue. As a reminder last year's set was also postponed. I guess that someone at New Zealand Post decided that it would be better to coincide the issue with the upcoming Amazon series The Rings of Powers just like Portugal's issue.
The New Issues of the month were Vin the Penguin from Armenia, Spider-Man from Germany, Toy Story from Japan, Diabolik from San Marino and by now also Buzz Lightyear from the USA was already issued.
To my own collection I added this month the new Mascots from Singapore, the two Polish issues of this year, Spider-Man (only the mint stamp is yet uploaded), a new Pokemon stamp from Japan and one of the Japanese Toy Story stamps.
