Hello beautiful Mel Odom and Gene Marshall fans, this is Jörg, the co-director of EYES OF MEL ODOM, the film Michael was posting about. First of all thank you for sharing our info here and for the first pledges that have already come in on our Kickstarter page. Our entire producing and directing team is doing this as a labor of love, we're not paying ourselves, so all the $$$ we manage to collect will go directly into hiring a camera crew, an editor and paying for motion graphics, archival material, etc.
If you haven't done so, please do click our link and check out the trailer on the Kickstarter page - it will show you the look and feel of our film. And please know that Mel himself has donated limited edition, numbered and signed prints of some of his most iconic drawings, including the original Gene Marshall. (See below.) Those prints will be mailed to folks who donate at a certain level.
Thank you for your support and we hope to be able to invite you see our film some time in early 2026.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shortdoco/eyes-of-mel-odom