There just aren’t many good holidays in March.

St. Patrick’s day doesn’t really lend itself to Goth.

Ankha’s boyfriend at the time was Brian Crump, who was a body painter. We decided to do something theatrical. We had masks. We got this.

The three masked people? Marc Moorash, my wife Suanna, and Model Spleen, who was also part of Seraphemera back them.

Of course February is dominated by Valentines Day. Which makes us think Cupid.

This idea was actually one of the first I had for the calendar, Cupid with a Compound Bow. Also one of the first shot with model Rain.

Makeup was done by Tara Ward.

We started with the idea of baby – or in this case babe – new year taking over from the old year/father time. Babe was a great idea because we could strip her down a bikini. But we had to put a twist on it of course.

Maybe last year wasn’t quite ready to go.

The model is Skarah Black.

Some points to consider, just to make it interesting. I was just discovering the joy of oiling up model to make them glisten, so we did it Skarah. Didn’t really show up in this image, but it did make her slippery. Which isn’t that great when she’s holding a Bowie knife and kneeling over father time.

Father time is Marc Moorash of Seraphemera Books. Seraphemera was my partner on this and they did a lot of work, including all of the layout of the calendar.

Here’s a couple more. Skarah has a very long tongue, that’s all I’m going to say. The Absinthe picture appeared under the January calendar. Apparently absinthe is very goth.