Don't You Just Love Leonard Nimoy?
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Don't You Just Love Leonard Nimoy? |
| Publisher: | |
| Editor(s): | Claire Mason & Karen Flanery |
| Type: | art portfolio |
| Date(s): | May 1970 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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Don't You Just Love Leonard Nimoy? is a gen Star Trek: TOS 50-page art portfolio by Claire Mason & Karen Flanery. There were 60 copies made.
The zine contains 50 pages of illustrations of Leonard Nimoy. Most illos are accompanied by a short comment that is some sort of social commentary and/or an in-joke regarding romance, wish-fulfillment, and celebrity life.
A similar zine is Karen & Leonard: A Monochromatic Romance.
Some Ads
From March 1970: "If you have ordered and haven't received it yet, contact Karen! Post office -- sometimes -- well you know! Not my fault!! I try!!" [1]
From August 1970: "What happens when two artists get together over the same subject? A book! We gots a book of drawings available called, "Don't You Just Love Leonard Nimoy?" - for one dollar and two 6 cents stamps, we mail one to you. Any profits to UNICEF." [2]
Content
Nimoy and Spock are basically relentlessly pursued by women, and is portrayed as being both a good sport and as well as a bit terrified.
The illos include include Nimoy as:
- characters he portrayed on stage and screen ("Visit to a Small Planet," Roger in a film called "The Balcony," his portrayal of Paris (from Mission Impossible acting as "Yuri Zager")
- Spock in fantasy settings aboard the Enterprise (example: going to the "InterGalaxy Dance" with Mason or Flanery.)
- himself in self-insertion illos with Flanery or Mason as she and Spock snuggle, make a wish over splitting a turkey wishbone
- in settings that portray his popularity (sitting on bags of mail, shielding his eyes from the flash of cameras, charming a young fan)
- characters in movies, plays, and books he didn't appear in ("Anna and the King of Siam" and "Laurence of Arabia" and as J.R.R. Tolkien's Aragorn)
front cover
author page
"Fans come in all sizes." (Nimoy's appeal is across ages.)
"Here's hoping you have stock in Eastman Kodak." (Nimoy is very popular with the paparazzi.)
"Look -- Considering all the other annexations impossible -- how about adoption?" At the top, "Whole Blame LNNAF." (Flanery imagining a close real life (possibly highly inappropriate!) relationship with Nimoy.)
"There's just one problem -- darn it..." (Nimoy and all his fan mail.)
"Mirror, Mirror on the wall.... Aw, come on!" (possibly a reference to the episode "Mirror, Mirror," but also a commentary on "Mirror, Mirror, who's the fairest of them all?")
"Look, we'll send you to a plastic surgeon -- point your ears, and when it's all over -- we'll pay to have them put back to normal!" (Gene Roddenberry and Nimoy in an imagined setting.)
"Captain... the next time they call Star Trek a kiddie show... let them!" (breaking the fourth wall)
"Briefly -- given the following listed known constants -- a result can be obtained, of course allowing for any random, variable complications, any of which could upset the final result. [...]"
"If he tries that one more time, I believe I shall have to smack him." (unclear who the "smack-ee" is)
"Just once?... and NOT according to Plato?!" (Flanery in a clutch with Spock. Plato reference unclear.)
"Logic, Smogic!... Quit making a big deal over a simple flip of the wrist... and pull already!" (Flanery is portrayed in a commentary on wish fulfillment, includes a turkey wishbone, perhaps alarming for Spock the vegetarian.)
"And you are innocent of all knowledge of why the computer has been programmed for 'random plot' to aid in structuring fantasy-tales..." (Spock corners a female crew member and interrogates her and her actions and motives regarding her fantasies.)
"You are surprisingly forgetful, Mr. Spock. After a thorough briefing on peculiar customs observed by humans at this time of year, you still won't avoid walking under the Mistletoe!") (Spock is accosted by Mason or Flanery, either through true forgetfulness, or by passive/aggressive flirting.)
"Okay! My liking for smarty-Vulcans is due to either a good judgement of character... or irrationality.... Take your pick!" (Spock is confronted by Mason or Flanery.)
"230 men on this ship... and I go for the universal party pooper. C'mon Spock! Can't you think of it as a field study of the effects of tonal rythmic [sic] structures have on evolved nervous systems? Hmmmmm?") (Spock is further pursued by Mason or Flanery as a date for the "InterGalaxy Dance.")
"Come on! Get out of there, Yuri!" (A triple transfer: Nimoy portrays a character ("Paris") who portrays another character ("Yuri") from Mission Impossible.)
a collage of Nimoy head shots titled: "Kaleidoscope"
Nimoy in Visit to a Small Planet
Nimoy as Aragorn
the last page: "If we don't quit this, he's gonna kill us!" (Flanery and Mason or Flanery in a surreal threesome, both snuggling and drawing Nimoy at the same time. See a similar illo in Karen & Leonard: A Monochromatic Romance.)
References
- ^ from LNAF Bulletin (March 1970)
- ^ from LNAF Bulletin (August 1970)