Blue Monday (date) press releases, with 2014 seeing Blue Monday invoked by legal firms and retailers of bottled water and alcoholic drinks. Some versions of the story purport to analyse trends in social media posts to calculate the date. In 2018, Arnall told "The Independent" newspaper that it was "never his intention to make the day sound negative", but rather "to inspire people to take action and make bold life decisions". It was also reported that he was working with Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Holidays, having "made it his mission to challenge some of the negative news associated with January and to debunk
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