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[News] News of September and October

Here are the collected News of the last two months, although most of these are actually from October:

• The Isle of Man Post issued on 12th September a set of eight stamps called David Bowie: Actor. One of them shows him as Jareth, The Goblin King, in the 1986 fantasy film Labyrinth. I have still not decided whether I want to add this set to my collection. I think it is a pity that they decided to show only head shots on the stamps.
• Images of the British Aardman stamps, which are already issued and which I really got, can be now found on the Internet. It is a set of eight stamps plus a souvenir sheet of four. 
• The sixth entry in the Japanese series The World of Children's Picture Books, a sheet of ten self-adhesive stamps, shows Bear's School written by Hiroyuki Aihara and illustrated by Nami Adachi. Issue date is the 6th December. 
• Unlike earlier reported the Dutch Kinderpostzegels with Donald Duck were not issued in September, but just on 10th October. 
• The Christmas stamps of Guernsey Post will show pantomimes of Robin Hood (Alderney) and Sleeping Beauty (Guernsey). According to the Commonwealth Stamps Opinion (post 2179) these will most likely be the first stamps with the new royal cypher of King Charles III in the World after the recent passing of the Queen. The issue date will be the 16th November. 
• The Polish Thorgal issue was postponed from October to December. 
• On 29th October Malta Post released a set about the 10th anniversary of the Malta Comic Convention featuring three local comics, "a departure from the more traditional choice of theme" as they write on their website. 
• For Philately Day a souvenir sheet of three stamps was issued in Italy on 28th October. It shows the cartoon characters Armadillo, Lady Cocca and Zerocalcare created by Michele Rech. 
• The next issue plans for 2023 are here. While Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Liechtenstein and Macau do not plan any thematic stamps, Czechia will issue a booklet about Poppy Doll and Butterfly Emanuel and Hungary will continue the series about Fairy Tale and Cartoon Heroes. The incomplete programmes from Finland, Hong Kong and the USA also do not include any issues about childhood heroes, the USA at least however usually adds one/some in the course of the year. 
• Unfortunately the French Naruto is still not available on WOPA.

The New Stamps of September and October were Lego from Austria, the Black Cat Detective from China, Moomins from Finland, Naruto from France, Pumuckl, the Smurfs and Black Panther from Germany, Mazsola és Tádé from Hungary, Goblin King Jareth from the Isle of Man, Philately Day from Italy, Malta Comic Convention from Malta, Donald Duck from the Netherlands, Lord of the Rings from New Zealand and Portugal, Transformers and Aardman Classics from the United Kingdom and the Peanuts from the USA. Busy months for sure!

To my own collection I have added the new issues from Austria, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Portugal and the United Kingdom, the Aardman stamps and Black Panther are however not yet updated here on the blog.