Lunch with Mel Odom

Come celebrate Gene's 18th Birthday with Mel Odom hosted by JAMIEshow Dolls and FDQ Magazine. Join us for a two hour luncheon featuring guest of honor Mel Odom, as he talks about Gene Marshall and announces a new collaborative effort with JAMIEshow Dolls. This is Mel's first public appearance since the retirement of Gene Marshall in 2010. Meet and greet Mel in person, and watch a history of the Gene through the eyes of Mr. Odom. We will be presenting a special new Lt d. Edition doll at event, which will be available for purchase and to take home!

Mel Odom’s art first attained prominence in the mid-1970s with a series of exotic illustrations done for glossy magazines. These pencil and watercolor drawings soon attracted assignments from art directors of other magazines, leading to a seventeen year, free-lance relationship with Playboy magazine, and covers for Time and Omni magazines as well as countless books. During this period, a successful line of posters and greeting cards using Mel’s iconic images was published by paper Moon Graphics.

In 1995 Mel retired from illustration and focused on a three-dimensional project, a fashion doll for adults named Gene Marshall. Gene’s story of being a movie star during the 1940s and 50s was irresistible to collectors, and within a year of her 1995 launch at Toy Fair, Gene was in fact a star. Bits of her story came with each doll and costume and in 2000 her lavishly illustrated biography: “Gene Marshall, Girl Star” was published by Hyperion Press. Gene has been voted in Doll Reader the most influential doll since Barbie.

Note: A full sitdown luncheon will be served with three meal options. Choose meal options at registration. Click below to register.

Event Cost is $65.00

Event it limited to a Maximum 100 people.

We are sorry absentee packages are not available.

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