The Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas Official First Day Cover features a stamp celebrating the award-winning graphic novel Red, A Haida Manga, by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.

One of six stamps in the Graphic Novelists (2025) set, the stamp is cancelled in Prince Rupert, British Columbia – Yahgulanaas’s birthplace.

Good to know

The Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas stamp was issued on November 20, 2025.
This Official First Day Cover is cancelled in Prince Rupert, British Columbia – Yahgulanaas’s birthplace.
This issue also includes a booklet of 12 Permanent™ domestic rate stamps and five other OFDCs – one for each graphic novelist.

About the Graphic Novelists issue

This set of six stamps – the second in a two-part series (the first was issued in 2024) – pays tribute to some of Canada’s most talented and influential graphic novelists – Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.

These stamps – featuring an acclaimed novel by each author – show the main characters engrossed in their own stories through original illustrations created exclusively for this issue.

About Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

A self-taught multimedia visual artist, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (b. 1954 in Prince Rupert, British Columbia) created his own method of painting and illustration by blending Asian brush techniques with Indigenous iconography. In his graphic novel Red, A Haida Manga (2009), Yahgulanaas uses this distinct style to pay homage to his roots on Haida Gwaii in the northeast Pacific. The tragic story – passed down through oral tradition – tells of two orphaned siblings whose peaceful lives are destroyed by the desire for revenge. The pages of the printed book can be removed and connected by their flowing “framelines” to recreate a 7.5-square-metre watercolour fresco by Yahgulanaas.

About the design

The front of the Official First Day Cover features a photograph of the cover of Red, A Haida Manga, which shows a colourful collage of images of Red, the main character.

The front also includes the text “Graphic Novelists” and the Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas stamp, cancelled in Prince Rupert, British Columbia – Yahgulanaas’s birthplace.

The stamp is a drawing created exclusively for the issue of Red reading his own story. The cancel image is of an open graphic novel.

The back features a photograph of a page from the book, along with a short text on Yahgulanaas and Red, A Haida Manga.

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Graphic Novelists (2025) – Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas: Official First Day Cover