SWitzerland: 90 years Lego (2022)

FDC:

"Faltblatt":

[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. 

United Kingdom: Aardman Classics (2022)

FDC: 

Netherlands: Donald Duck (2022)

France: Naruto (2022)

Used on a Card:

Germany: Black Panther (2022)

Used on matching Cards with Special Postmarks:

Used on a Cover with Special Postmark [Spider-Man is actually not allowed to have the Black Panther postmark]:

Austria: 90 Years Lego (2022)

On a matching Card with Special Postmark:

Finland: Moomin ABC (2022)

Not needed in mint condition.

FDC:

New Zealand: The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers 20th Anniversary (2022)

[News] News of August

 Here are the News of August and the first days of September:

• The Lord of the Rings set from New Zealand finally has a new release date, which will be the 7th September. Like for last year's set there will be six stamps issued both as single stamps and in souvenir sheets. In the meantime the Portuguese set was issued according to plan on 2nd September. There are four stamps in it plus an additional souvenir sheet. 
• The Slovak Post revealed its stamp programme for 2023 and there are three stamps about childhood themes planned. As every other year there will be a stamp for the Bratislava Biennial of Illustrations. The other two stamps honour authoress Krista Bendová and cartoonist Viktor Kubal for their birth centenaries.
• The British Transformers set was revealed during a thematic fan event. It comprises of eight stamps plus a souvenir sheet with five Dinobots. By now they have already been issued. Surprisingly the set is not aimed at the toys or movies, but depicts comic characters. Most of them are unknown to me, but Optimus Prime, Megatron and Bumblebee are at least among them. Those three also got special fan sheets. 
• Images of the Chinese set about Black Cat Detective can now be found on the Internet. 
• Hungary once again issued on 2nd September a souvenir sheet about Hungarian children's characters. The theme of this year is Mazsola és Tádé, a puppet series running from 1969 to 1973.

The only new issue of August were the Buzz Lightyear stamps from the USA. That however is just the calm before the September storm.

To my own collection I added in August a Sleeping Beauty postmark from Germany, but by now I also already have the new German "Helden der Kindheit".

Portugal: Lord of the Rings (2022)

Used on a Card:

United Kingdom: Transformers (2022)

Germany: Childhood Heroes (2022)

This is the fourth set in the series "Helden der Kindheit" (Childhood Heroes). They show the Smurfs and Pumuckl.

On matching Cards with Special Postmarks:

Used on Cover with Special Postmark:

[News] News of July

 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.

Germany: Sleeping Beauty Special Postmark (2022)

Japan: Toy Story (2022)

Nothing else needed.

Used on a Card with Special Postmark: