My friend Melinda inspired this one!
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Nothing to report today, but here’s a sketch of our three heroes. Note that I didn’t have their anatomy quite right yet when I drew this.
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As we’ve mentioned before, Ellie could be seen everywhere and on everything back when she launched into space so long ago. So it’s a no-brainer that she would have been seen in PEZ form!
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Ray Robinson is a collector of first day of issue covers – stamps that have been cancelled on an envelope on their first day of issue. What makes the ones he collects special is that he combines them with his other hobby of collecting comic character sketches. I was thrilled when he asked for Ellie on an envelope with this really cool Project Mercury stamp from 1962. I was also scared to death that I’d mess up and ruin it. I mean, this stamp is older than I am!
Here’s a closer look at the stamp which commemorates the program that launched John Glenn as the first American to orbit the Earth.
You can see more of Ray’s First Day of Issue Covers, featuring some really amazing artists, at his blog comicfdc.blogspot.com.
Thanks for the honor, Ray!
UPDATED:
Ellie reader Carsten wanted to know if there were any stamps with our favorite robotic explorer on them from back when she was launched, and if we could see any of them. It took me a bit to find one, but voila!
I’m pretty sure there were several more.
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Another fine example of Planet X-ian wildlife. This is a Lemon Drop Flutterby, a relative of the Cellophane Wing Flutterby.
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When I was a little kid, my grandma used to cut out Family Circus comics from the paper and paste them in scrapbooks for me. She’d cross out Billy’s and Jeffy’s names and write in mine, and add glasses to the mom to more resemble my own. Every so often there would be one that was a large single comic panel of one of the kids being sent on some errand, only to wander around becoming completely distracted by everything else. This is Ellie’s tribute to those strips.
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The Viking Mars Lander touched down on the surface of Mars on June 19, 1976. I remember watching the first picture appear, line by line, on our neighbors’ TV. It doesn’t look like much, but this was the first photo I’d seen from the surface of another planet! Not counting the moon, of course (it being a moon).
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.
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