WHAT:
The Postal Service recently issued the Sunday Funnies stamp pane honoring Dennis the Menace, Archie, Beetle Bailey, Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes. Ron Ferdinand, a resident of Pine Bush and Dennis the Menace Sunday artist will be at the Pine Bush Post Office to sign autographs. There will be an 8” x 10” Dennis the Menace cartoon by Mr. Ferdinand that he will sign. A Dennis the Menace pictorial postmark will also be available. FREE Color Sunday Comic Strip with Stamp Sheet Purchase! (Supplies limited)

WHO:
Ron Ferdinand, Dennis the Menace Sunday artist

WHEN:
Aug 21, 2010, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

WHERE:
Pine Bush Post Office, 27 Main ST., Pine Bush, New York 12566

BACKGROUND:
Ron Ferdinand began his association with Dennis the Menace's creator, Hank Ketcham, in 1981. Ron's first job was the Dennis the Menace comic book published by Marvel. After a few issues Ron was assigned to the Sunday page, which he's been doing ever since. Ron now lives in Pine Bush, NY with his wife Andrea and sons Mark and Jordan.

The Dennis the Menace stamp features five-year-old Dennis dressed in red coveralls and striped shirt running off to some new adventure. Dennis the Menace follows the antics of Dennis Mitchell, a good-hearted but mischievous little boy who is perpetually “five-and-half” years old. His curiosity tests the patience of his loving parents and neighbors, guaranteeing that their lives are anything but dull. The comic debuted in March 1951 as a single-panel gag. 

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