Boris's Heroes 1980 Calendar

I'm indebted to Marinus Heijting for first telling me about this calendar and even more indebted to Geoneasha at www.ArtFantastix.com who provided scans of the whole calendar.

The Dutch company Verkerke Reproducties BV are well known as producers of fine art reproductions. In 1979 they had begun printing posters of Boris' art for distribution throughout Europe. The fact that this calendar was published in February of that year makes it one of their first Boris items. It contains the 12 images comprising their entire range, from the 1979 catalogue, of Boris greetings cards. The style of the front cover is repeated internally with all images presented as vertical format pictures (even the square ones, which were cropped accordingly) padded to the usual squarish shape by black borders. The picture titles appear on the page below, immediately above the calendar for the relevant month. The one exception to this style is the centrepiece which is reproduced as the usual borderless image common to all the Boris calendars. The monochrome rear cover is fairly spartan showing only a photo of Boris, a brief biography, and the calendar's copyright information.