Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising is working with the US Postal Service to get us some Simpsons stamps!  To honor the longest-running, first family of cartoons, the USPS will introduce a 44-cent First-Class Mail stamp this year, drawn by series creator Matt Groening.  The stamps will, of course, feature Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson.

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Gaspard & Lisa is going to be all over France’s TF1. Toys, games, shirts, bags… everything related to the animated series will hit the store shelves in 2010. The Chorion cartoon, if you’re not familiar with it, is based on the Gaspard & Lisa books by Anne Gutman and George Hallensleben, who are married in real life!

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The Simpsons has been on for 20 years.  Twenty!!!  That currently makes it the longest-running cartoon of all time, and the longest-running American sitcom.  But, just this past week, they people behind the show signed a deal to bring us the folks from Springfield for at least another 3 years.  That will make it the longest-running series ever, cartoon or otherwise.  And, yes, you could say it’s because cartoons are better than other shows   Woohoo!!!!

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