Jean Kluge - Fanlore

Jean Kluge is a well known and highly praised fan artist. She started in Star Trek fandom, and has created artwork for many years. She's been active in many fandoms, but is probably best known for her artwork in Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Professionals, and The Sentinel. Her art has been on the cover of many zines, sold as originals and prints at conventions, and later on the Internet, and recently, sold as t-shirt transfers.

She is also a writer. She wrote the Sentinel Jim/Blair novel Changes, and wrote (and illustrated with Marty Siegrist), the beautiful ST:TNG Data/Tasha novel Pulse of the Machine.

During the 1980s and 90s, like Suzie Lovett and a few other artists, her art often went for hundreds of dollars at art auctions at conventions, leading to conversations about why it was considered wrong for fan writers and fan publishers to profit from their work, but all right for fannish artists to profit from their work.

One of her ST:TNG drawings is the cover of Textual Poachers, by Henry Jenkins.

Gallery

A few examples of Jean's artwork.

Textual Poachers, cover art by Jean Kluge	Cover of the Sentinel zine Changes	Sentinel zine The Sensual World #1	The Road to Hell and Other Stories Blake's 7 zine
Beauty and the Beast zine A Secret Place #4