2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 03

This week we lead off with Mike Ludlow and a comic-appropriate painting for our Pin-up Calendar page -

Enoch Bolles returns for our Classic Covers Calendar with a Paris Nights cover from January 1937 -

For our Blue Calendar entry, we've got the first appearance of she who is arguably our oddest artist appearing on this year's calendars, Zoë Mozert -

As you might have guessed from the name, one of the things that makes Zoë so different from the other featured artists is that she is a she. Another is that she was also, at times, her own model -

Here's a photo of her in later years, standing in front of one of her most famous works, the Red Dog Rosie mural -

Yes, you can has a better view of the mural, too -

Of course, we'll be seeing more from her this year.

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

art by labelled artists, of course (20th C) 

2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 02

We'll keep it simple this week - only one of each calendar style - just so we don't start patterns of overkill.

For our Pin-Up Calendar, we've got an Al Moore girl staying warm in winter wear, sort of...

...and our Old Magazine Covers calendar features Rolf Armstrong from January 1919...

 

Let me pause to remark on how much i enjoy the ... quality of light on the faces of Rolf's portraits. That's the best way i can think to phrase it, so let's take a quick look at a few to see what i mean -

It's not surprising his work was so popular and featured on many magazine covers.
 
For our Blue Calendar this week, we've got Earl Moran and one of his paintings of Marilyn Monroe...

As you may know, Earl had rather unique relations with Marilyn...

...and turned out quite a few paintings of her, of which these are just a sampling...

Oddly, one of my favorites seems to be rarely seen on the web -

We'll be seeing a fair bit of Moore, Armstrong, and Moran on this year's calendars. Perhaps not a big surprise.

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

art by Al Moore and Rolf Armstrong (20th C)

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)