# Guess the next 5 comic strips to get a US postage stamp **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-next-5-comic-strips-to-get-a-us-postage-stamp/517499 "2009-11-13T22:17:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-next-5-comic-strips-to-get-a-us-postage-stamp/517499/1 "2009-11-13T22:17:47Z")
They’ve been announced, and I’ll let on in a while. [Peanuts](http://www.virtualstampclub.com/2001/peanuts.jpg), of course, already has one. [Here](http://www.usps.com/communications/news/stamps/2006/images/25/comicstripclassics_hr.jpg) are the 20 previous strips on the last special stamp sheet. So of these 15 I’ve listed in the poll, which 5 (without googling) would you guess are being added to the club? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-next-5-comic-strips-to-get-a-us-postage-stamp/517499/2 "2009-11-13T22:25:21Z")
I really want 4 of the 5 I voted for. Then I got stuck. I guess **Dennis the Menace** will probably get it. \*\*Doonesbury \*\*deserves it, but it commits the sin of having a political viewpoint. If they’re released on a single sheet, **Pogo** ’s going to look weird next to all the others. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-next-5-comic-strips-to-get-a-us-postage-stamp/517499/3 "2009-11-13T23:47:30Z")
I went with (mostly) the old fart strips - Pogo, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace, and Archie, with the modern Garfield as well. Didn’t Dilbert and Zippy have stamps already? Joe ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-next-5-comic-strips-to-get-a-us-postage-stamp/517499/4 "2009-11-14T00:05:00Z")
I got three. Calvin and Hobbes!? Awesome. I wonder why Watterson’s allowing this. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-next-5-comic-strips-to-get-a-us-postage-stamp/517499/5 "2009-11-14T00:31:35Z")
Where did you find the results? I googled after I voted, but can’t find the list… Joe ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-next-5-comic-strips-to-get-a-us-postage-stamp/517499/6 "2009-11-14T01:27:59Z")
[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi\_qn4176/is\_20090906/ai\_n35617573/](http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20090906/ai_n35617573/) Look at July ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-next-5-comic-strips-to-get-a-us-postage-stamp/517499/7 "2009-11-14T02:34:33Z")
I already know which five are being honored, so I won’t vote- but putting Pogo as one of the choices was an interesting decision, as Pogo was supposed to to be honored on the 1995 Comic Strip Classics sheet but was replaced by Brenda Starr after it was realized there were no female-drawn comics represented. Pogo isn’t my cup of tea, but as well-known American characters and political satire, I certainly think it deserves to be honored with a stamp sometime in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-next-5-comic-strips-to-get-a-us-postage-stamp/517499/8 "2009-11-14T03:06:28Z")
I think Brenda Starr also got a push because some people were saying that all the other honorees were dead and it would be nice to honor Dale Messick while she was still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-next-5-comic-strips-to-get-a-us-postage-stamp/517499/9 "2009-11-15T03:30:33Z")
OK, so I got 4/5. I am surprised at the 5th. Very much. Joe ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2009, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-next-5-comic-strips-to-get-a-us-postage-stamp/517499/10 "2009-11-15T04:33:09Z")
I knew I should have picked Dennis the Menace, but I just hate that comic so much, I couldn’t clear my head enough to predict it. Calvin and Hobbes is a bit recent and didn’t actually last very long, I’m surprised it got picked. Unfortunately, nobody knows who Pogo is anymore. (Yay, I’m too young for something!) I only know because my dad had a book lying round. I didn’t get it.