Anything But Monday Info.txt
Anything But Monday
by Frank Nora and Mike Massotto
Volume 1, numbers 1 through 9
100 images at 300 dpi
Volume 4, number 1
8 images at 600 dpi
Scanned by Neon Vincent on January 9, 2011
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Scanner's comments:
These ten books complete the full run of Anything But Monday!
About twenty years ago I found Anything But Monday v2 n1 at a yard sale. I liked it so much I wrote to the address in the indicia to ask about buying any other available issues, but the letter was returned as undeliverable. For eight years I only had that one issue.
Then, in 1998, I discovered eBay. I immediately started regularly searching for Anything But Monday and quickly found the two remaining issues of v2 and the single issue that is v3. Soon after that I joined the CCA. I had stashed my copy of v2 n1 somewhere, so for my first CCA scan I did Anything But Monday v2 n2 on April 13, 2000. I was using the nick BirdBrain at that time but changed to my current scanning nick not long after. By the end of 2000 I had scanned and shared my remaining three issues of Anything But Monday as Neon Vincent, still for the CCA.
For the past ten years I've had a watch search on eBay and have never seen any other issues than the four I already had. In those issues Frank and Mike would sometimes mention their earlier efforts back in their college days, so I figured I'd likely never see those issues.
I recently started a torrent of the four issues that I own and had scanned, and a fellow going by the nick jackryder spotted it and wrote to thank me. Turns out he's a friend of Frank's and he sent him the scans along with my contact info. Frank wrote to me to thank me for scanning and sharing them. We struck up a lively e-mail conversation and one day he suddenly said he was going to give me the rest of the series... and indeed he did!
Frank has a regular internet broadcast on The Overnightscape Underground and has mentioned my already torrented scans several times. He and I continue to swap mail and it seems he's quite pleased with my efforts but as I told him, not nearly as pleased as I have been enjoying his creative sense of humor all these years. To finally get my hands on these old college day issues filled a wish I've had for twenty years. Thanks, Frank!
Anything But Monday v1 n1 is a single sheet of paper folded in half; four scans. The next issue went to 8 pages, and they grew to 20 pages by the end of v1. Then, a few years after v3 n1, they tried one more time and produced v4 n1. The issue Frank gave me is the first one of 60 they made.
I scanned the nine issues of v1 at 300 dpi due to the small page size and wanting to still get good high res scans. For v4 I went to 600 dpi because it's even smaller, about 4 x 6 inches. Also, I decided to do no cleanup at all other than rotate and crop. And, although it made me cringe, I had to pull the staples from most of the issues to get good scans. Sometimes the text and artwork went clear to the edge and even under the staple! But as I told Frank, nobody else is ever going to handle them as long as I live, so they'll stay in the same condition they're in now for at least that long.
I think Frank and Mike should have been as big back then as Trey and Matt are today. Check my share from time to time for Anything But Monday related material that I won't be sending to ThePusher, such as the eight audio episodes of the Anything But Monday Show that Frank and Mike did in 2007.
And that's the story on these old rarities. I don't know wbout you, but I'm off to browse through them again!
Neon Vincent
20110109
"If you had a choice between any of a variety of sundry power tools or a giant-sized microwave with which to do away with Richard Simmons, which would it be?"
- The Choice Maven, Anything But Monday
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Anything But Monday scans by Neon Vincent:
Anything But Monday v1 n1 (1986-07) (c2c) (Neon Vincent) (R).cbr Scanned 20110109
Anything But Monday v1 n2 (1986-09) (c2c) (Neon Vincent).cbr Scanned 20110109
Anything But Monday v1 n3 (1986-10) (c2c) (Neon Vincent).cbr Scanned 20110109
Anything But Monday v1 n4 (1986-11) (c2c) (Neon Vincent).cbr Scanned 20110109
Anything But Monday v1 n5 (1987-02) (c2c) (Neon Vincent).cbr Scanned 20110109
Anything But Monday v1 n6 (1987-09) (c2c) (Neon Vincent).cbr Scanned 20110109
Anything But Monday v1 n7 (1987-12) (c2c) (Neon Vincent).cbr Scanned 20110109
Anything But Monday v1 n8 (1988-02) (c2c) (Neon Vincent).cbr Scanned 20110109
Anything But Monday v1 n9 (1988-04) (c2c) (Neon Vincent).cbr Scanned 20110109
Anything But Monday v2 n1 (1988-12) (c2c) (Neon Vincent).cbr Scanned 20010707
Anything But Monday v2 n2 (1989-02) (c2c) (Neon Vincent as BirdBrain).cbr Scanned 20000413
Anything But Monday v2 n3 (1989-05) (c2c) (Neon Vincent).cbr Scanned 20010713
Anything But Monday v3 n1 (1989-10) (c2c) (Neon Vincent).cbr Scanned 20001225
Anything But Monday v4 n1 (1993-05) (c2c) (Neon Vincent).cbr Scanned 20110109
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Below is the text file I shared with the torrent mentioned above:
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Anything But Monday
I scanned all four of these books between April and December of 2000. I've had a watch on eBay for more than ten solid years and have never seen any other issues offered for sale, so I believe that these four are all there is to the series. I believe v1 was something they did in college and never saw publication.
The first one I scanned was v2.2, in April, five months before 9-11, and the issue itself was printed eleven years before that. It's interesting that on page 11, it says the best way to destroy the World Trade Center is with a 747.
When I scanned v2.2 I was using the nick BirdBrain. I changed it to Neon Vincent before scanning the other three, and that's still my nick in the comics groups and channels today.
I scanned v2.1 and v2.2 at 150 dpi, then went to 200 dpi for the last two. Now, with our higher resolution monitors, they all seem a bit small. Perhaps I'll rescan them someday at a yet higher resolution, meantime, thank goodness for CDisplay and its fit to width option. Also, please note that some individual scans are much narrower than the rest of the pages in that book. This is because I crop useless white space. Again, hats off to CDisplay for fitting each page to width. Finally, note that the scans for 3.1 are larger because it was a larger page than a regular comic book; a magazine size format.
Now about the comics themselves, to quote from Anything_But_Monday_v2.2.CCA.nfo -
The only change I've made to the entire original scan set is to rotate Anything_But_Monday_v2.2_rco by 90 degrees since it has a landscape orientation.
Enjoy.
Neon Vincent
20101109
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