Blue Monday (date) the melancholic mind-set of "Blue Monday"". The date is generally reported as falling on the third Monday in January, but also on the second or fourth Monday, or the Monday of the last full week of January. The first such date declared was 24 January in 2005 as part of a Sky Travel press release. The formula uses many factors, including: weather conditions, debt level (the difference between debt accumulated and our ability to pay), time since Christmas, time since failing our new year’s resolutions, low motivational levels and feeling of a need to take action. One equation used by
Blue Monday (comics) size, with colors added by Eisner Award-winning colorist Jordie Bellaire. The Image Comics edition of "The Kids Are Alright" appeared in July 2016, "Absolute Beginners" in December 2016, and "Inbetween Days" in July 2017. "Painted Moon" will be published in the same format in 2018, to be followed by volume five, "Thieves Like Us", and an omnibus volume entitled "Germfree Adolescents" which will include all the published Blue Monday comics up to that point. Chynna Clugston Flores has stated that she has plans to continue the "Blue Monday" stories past the high school years and into the young adulthoods of