#STAR TREK ART PRINTS MIND MELD PROFESSIONAL#

I had, taken just enough money at the time, you know, there wasn't the kind of, you know, cards and things that we use today. So I bought a couple of them, read them in my room that night.

#STAR TREK ART PRINTS MIND MELD PROFESSIONAL#

So I looked at, in the amateur ones and I thought, well, if the professional ones were so bad, what do I want with the amateur was, but of course there was, you know, really pretty illos. Until then I had read professional Star Trek books professionally published, and they weren't any good. I, uh, I walked into the dealer's room absolutely shocked that there was so much stuff, professional stuff and fannish stuff. In fact, be before the end of the convention. Well it was very exciting just to have people to talk to that had the same interests and uh, people of all ages, colors, and even nationalities. I was operating under people under the impressions people normally operate when they go off to things, you know, sharing rooms with other fans, all those things. I left my daughter with my husband and I just got on the bus and went by myself. [When I went to Star TreKon, I didn't know anybody in the fandom before then. She kept sending me stories and printing my drawings until I got better and the other zine editors started noticing and asking for work, accepting pencil work, until I had more and more reasons to improve. She sent me two stories to illustrate, mentioning she’d prefer ink, but if I preferred otherwise, she was fine with that, as long as I understood she’d be simply Xeroxing them and I shouldn’t expect perfect quality. The third zine was R&R, and - well, Johanna Cantor kept it cheap mostly to give the new writers and artists a place where they had a chance of getting printed. saying essentially the same thing about Galactic Discourse, but very gently. Galactic Discourse, Contact - the editors of which both bounced back my drawings, Bev Volker & Nancy Kippax telling me they weren’t good enough to be in Contact, Laurie H. I put together a small portfolio, Xeroxed them and sent them to the editors of the zines I’d bought. The paycheck coming into the house at the time simply couldn’t cover too many indulgences, I’d just discovered zines, hankered for more and I thought contributors copies were a great idea. I wonder.? I must admit that the real reason wasn’t so much for “art’s sake” as it was for sheer money, or rather, the lack thereof. Please credit Suzan Lovett.' Acafan Useġ980, my very first con, Kansas City TreKon, where I saw my first fan Art Show and thought: Hmmm, I used to draw. In 2018, Suzan gave the following blanket permission: 'Blanket permission for non-commercial remix, podfic, translation, art or fanvid creations or secondary fanwork creations of any of my fanworks EXCEPT my Star Trek fic. In the mid 1990s, she was one of the first group of Starsky & Hutch slash fan writers who agreed to allow their fan fiction to be publicly posted online. Suzan's fanfiction is available at her new Partnersrmore site. Some of her fantasy-based Blake's 7 art is currently archived at the Blake's 7 Guide and in a Blake's 7 Fan Art Gallery.

In the early 2000s, however, she sold prints of her art via the web, as seen in the Wayback archived sites and (an incarnation of her old website).

In 1997, she was the Fan Guest of Honor at the Farpoint convention.īecause Suzan began drawing in the 1980s and 1990s for fanzines and for sale at conventions, much of her work is not available on the internet. Her artwork has won dozens of awards, including Fan Q Awards, Huggy Awards, Stiffies, Surak Awards, SlaSHies and Screwz awards, in addition to art show awards at various conventions. Suzan started drawing for Star Trek in the early 80s, she has done hundreds of illustrations in many fandoms het, gen and slash. Suzan Lovett is best known in fandom as a prolific fan artist, and has also written slash and gen fanfiction. 9 Parodies and Works Inspired by Lovett's Art and Writing.7 Her Evolving Art Style and Fandom Reactions To Her Art.

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