2020 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 in our 'back room' blog, 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?

There is one more calendar page offered this week. It contains nudity, so it's tucked into the alternate version of this post in our 'Back Room'. Click here to jump to the unbowdlerized post.

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)

2020 Vision

As many of you know, 2019 was an epic failure for calendars around here. I've got an eye towards the new year coming up and i'm making plans (and actual pages) to carry on in the tradition of the 2018 Gil Elvgren calendar. And a bit more, too.

That means a weekly calendar format, but i'll be offering a few choices. How many options is still uncertain. At least 3, possibly more. Currently planned are two classic pin-up art calendars - one "Good Girl" and one "Bad Girl." By that, i mean that there will be one nice calendar here, and another in the 'back room' where the girls take their clothes off.

Obviously, it would be cruel to make any single artist follow after Gil Elvgren, so the 2020 calendars will all feature several artists for a variety of works.

The third option currently in the works uses old magazine covers with paintings from a lot of great old artists.

And now that we're speaking of those artists, let's take a look at some of those that we'll be featuring. Don't worry - we won't be using any of the artwork that's scheduled for the calendars.

With 52 weeks and at least 3 - perhaps as many as 6 - calendars, that's going to be a fair number of artists. So we'll just look at 9 of them today to get things started.


Rolf Armstrong

Earle Bergey

Enoch Bolles

Mabel Rollins Harris

Harry Lemon Parkhurst (among other HLs)

Konstantin Razumov

Edward Runci

Arthur Sarnoff

Hugh Joseph Ward

I'll run another batch fairly soon. More than just to give a peek a whose work we'll be seeing, this also provides the opportunity for you to influence how prominently some artists are featured. You may also suggest other artists while i'm still in the gathering and compiling stage. You might even suggest artists already in the pile. That's okay, it just means i'm choosing well.

art by the folks listed above