Eponymously Yours, W. Skeffington Higgins

Fandom's postman Harry Andruschak points out a list of the stamps that will be issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 2006.

Highlights:

Favorite Children's Book Animals.

Wonders of America: Land of Superlatives. Probably nice, but it will be hard to measure up to the U-Haul "weird science" series of rental-truck graphics.

Distinguished American Diplomats, which led me to learn about Hiram Bingham IV. (I already knew about his dad, Hiram Bingham III, discoverer of the lost city of Macchu-Picchu, autogiro pilot, and governor, for a single day, of Connecticut.)

Ten DC Comics heroes. Half of the pane of 20 will be portraits of the characters; the other half will show individual comic book covers devoted to their exploits. The characters include Aquaman, Batman, The Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Plastic Man, Supergirl, Superman and Wonder Woman.

Four depictions of the accomplishments of Ben "Tercentenary Lad" Franklin.

Holiday Snowflakes, from photomicrographs by physicist Kenneth Libbrecht.

The more I think about it, the more pleased I am about this new stamp. I need to buy lots of them.



I wrote something about it here.

I was an inquisitive kid. I wanted to know what The Future would be like. Before January 10, 1964, I'd never heard of R. Buckminster Fuller. But one look at the cover of that week's Time and I wanted to know all about him. I read every word of that story, over and over again. I wore out all the pictures with my eye tracks. Domed houses. Tensegrity structures. Three-wheeled cars. World's Fairs. I was ten. He was 74. It was magic.



Edited to add: I can scarcely believe that I neglected to mention the artist. The painter was the great Boris Artzybasheff.