Blue Monday (date) Blue Monday (date) Blue Monday is a name given to a day in January (typically the third Monday of the month) claimed to be the most depressing day of the year. The concept was first publicised as part of a 2005 press release from holiday company Sky Travel, which claimed to have calculated the date using an equation. It takes into account weather conditions and thus only applies to the Northern Hemisphere. The idea is considered pseudoscience, with its formula derided by scientists as nonsensical. This date was published in a press release under the name of Cliff Arnall, at
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