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Mel Odom was born in 1950, majored in Fashion Illustration at Virginia Commonwealth University and did graduate work in England. In 1975 moved to New York and began to work for the gay magazine Blueboy and for Playboy. His art had a powerful appeal and fantasy and assignments outside of the erotic field quickly arrived from art directors for many books' covers. Mel did sleeves for CBS records, Playboy named him Illustrator of the Year in 1980 and he won the Society of Illustrators' Gold Medal in the Editorial class in 1982, and the Silver Medal in the Book class in 1987.

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