Happy New Year—however you’re dressed. Or not dressed.
Art by Dick Giordano for Brides in Love #40, Feb. 1964.
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SCENE: An apparently naked, red-headed woman at a party with a man.
WOMAN: Happy Nude Year!
1964 Art: Dick Giordano Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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WOMAN: Happy Nude Year!
1964 Art: Dick Giordano Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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“Gil and I were very much in love and deliriously happy until SHE came into our lives!..
…Of course, it wasn’t the coming I minded as much as it was the high cost of having to continually launder the bed sheets.”
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…That’s the last time I give Gil a Tinder gift certificate for his birthday!”
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…I mean, when Gil told me he was tight with his sister, I didn’t think he meant Karma Sutra tight.”
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…I really should stop sleeping with her if I want to save my marriage with Gil.”
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…It wouldn’t bother me so much if she would wipe Gil off after she was done with him.”
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…This is the last time I’ll ever move in with a married man and his wife!”
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Happy Nude Year All!
Or … Of course, it wasn’t the coming I minded as much as all the noise that accompanied it.
Happy Nude, New Year, Jams. As always, I love your wit.
Happy Nude Year to you and yours, too!
But how could you not take this into three-way territory, as fine jams details for us? Ah well…
Happy Nude Year, Gale! Yes, having the second woman in there would’ve been fun. But…
As so often happens, I commissioned Diego to color the art before I had any idea what the gag would be. Or that I’d use it for a holiday. If I had known what the gag was going to be, I definitely would’ve told Diego to leave the second woman in.
As often happens, I try to make things easy for Diego. So I told him I didn’t need the background (or the woman in the background.)
Diego surprised me by removing the clothing of the woman in the foreground and putting her and the man in a shower. (We’ll see that version one of these days.)
When I thought up the “Happy Nude Year” gag, I dug out the image and removed the shower components so that I could add a background that would suggest a New Year’s Eve party mood.
That’s the first jaw piercing I ever saw
I agree with jams, you should have left the background woman in the frame, suitably blurred or cropped to keep the “ain’t got no life so I have to ruin yours” censors at bay.
See my answer to Gale, but—yeah, I blew an opportunity for a three-way. I’ll try to make up for that later in 2020!