2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 01

It's a new year with new calendars!

As mentioned a few times over the past couple weeks, we'll be running weekly calendars here, with three to choose from. We'll have two calendars featuring pin-up artwork and another featuring old magazine covers. One of the two pin-up calendars will feature nude artwork and appear only here on The Other Voice Of ODD! And sometimes, like today, we'll have extra 'bonus' calendars. After all - we won't be needing New Year's Covers next week, will we?

Note that calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

art by indicated artists (see lower right for each calendar page)

Um... God's Country?

I hope you folks enjoyed (and are enjoying) your holidays. I'm back from my Dance Of The Cave Shadows festival and ready (at least in theory) to get back to work here.

Meanwhile, you might be wondering what i've been up to while i was off in the dark. Well, i can give you a hint or two. (But one of them is going to have to be in the back room)

First bit...

...and Second...

Okay - that's all i'm going to say for now.

At midnight, we get a new year and we'll start the new weekly calendars.

See ya then!

art by -3- from It'sASecret (2019)

I Teach You To Massage Gungliax

We're talking about Masks today in the main room here at The Voice Of ODD!. Perhaps not surprisingly, my story tended to stray into areas better suited for the back room.

Here's the main post which leads into this extra bit -

As noted in the main post, some of the artwork remains lost at this point. Here are two panels from the following page... 

Nope, nothing happened beyond Juan learning to massage the gungliax cluster - a useful skill.

The work done on this book, and art breakdowns shown in the main post, eventually led to more recent styles -

(from some of that unreleased game work to which i referred in the main post)

I also tended to do full sized mock-ups of the magazines people are reading inside the comic...

...and back cover to the magazine...

You might remember a certain ridiculous beer bottle that was being advertised in our world around that time. Here's a hint...

That's about it for now. I'm off to suffer the repercussions inflicted by my angry brain. It didn't want to go here...

stuff by -3- for Masks (2010)

Bedtime Gory

Continuing from yesterday morning, it's Twilight Of The Heroes - a classic tale from the golden days of yore by Ron Wilber. When reading along, remember that this was back in 1977 - so long ago that my then wife and i were still expecting our first child when it was published in Rocket's Blast Comic Collector. Long before the 'Dark Age' of comics, and way back when we could only dream of characters from different companies ever appearing together.

Some dreams are decidedly more twisted than others...

I miss the old zines.
(Hey, Mindbender! Is S-TAPA still publishing?)

page art by Ron Wilber for Rocket's Blast Comic Collector #s 143-  (1977)

It Started In January 1955 When The Police Discovered The Body Of One Comics Code Official...

Thus did it begin...

Late last year, while presenting Ron Wilber's Star Woes from the old Rocket's Blast Comic Collector, i realized that i hadn't yet run his classic Twilight Of The Heroes despite having thought i had. Perhaps i was confusing it with The Massacre Of The Innocents, another strip from RBCC which did run previously. Or perhaps my deranged mind was playing tricks on me once again. 

Regardless, it's past time for another dive into those old zines and long past time for this tale to appear. However, we're going to break it up for a couple of reasons. The first is length - the story runs for 32 pages. You need a bit of room when telling an Epic, y'know. So we'll break the tale into two posts.

Moreover, we're also going to break this first post as well. After Wonder Woman shows up, it soon becomes NSFW. Fortunately, that's why The Other Voice Of ODD! exists. We can run the uncensored pages safely behind the adult warning.

Twilight Of The Heroes ran over several issues of RBCC, beginning in #139 - the same issue which featured Ron's above linked Star Woes tale.

If you jumped over from this post on the main blog, this is where to continue...

Continued (and concluded) tomorrow...

 page art by Ron Wilber for RBCC #s 139-142 (1977)