Logo #236: Death in June

You thought this was going to be logo #14 or logo #88, didn't you? Academic chickens! The totenkopf logo was designed for Death In June by band founder Douglas Pearce in 1981. Pearce (who looks a little like Dave Pearce of Flying Saucer Attack): "I designed it, as I do 99% of the artwork, and it was first used on a sleeve in 1983 - although it had been around since just after the release of "Heaven Street" in 1981 as a patch design, etc. A screw-up on the 7" sleeve of "Holy Water" in 1982 meant that the '6' was left off." When asked whether he considered the totenkopf or the whip hand more emblematic of Death in June, he replied, "Now, now David. I've answered a couple of private questions - it's not going to turn into a book!"

Suitably enough, this Day in Death:
George Joseph Herriman ("Krazy Kat"; August 22, 1880 – April 25, 1944)
George Sanders (July 3, 1906 – April 25, 1972)
Paul de Vree (November 13, 1909 - April 25, 1982)
Dexter Keith Gordon (February 27, 1923 - April 25, 1990)
Phillip "Phil" Suchomel (Naked Aggression; April 19, 1969 - April 25, 1998)
Roger Troutman (Zapp & Roger; November 29, 1951 - April 25, 1999)
Bobby "Boris" Pickett (born Robert George Pickett; February 11, 1938 – April 25, 2007)
Enrico Donati (the last Surrealist; February 19, 1909 - April 25, 2008)