Merle Decker
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| Name: | Merle Decker, Marla |
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| Type: | fanartist, fanwriter |
| Fandoms: | Star Trek: TOS, Starsky & Hutch, Star Wars: TPM |
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Merle Decker (Marla) is a fanartist and fanwriter.
Her first piece of Starsky and Hutch art was the cover of The Who Do We Trust Times #2. Her artwork has often been described as having a clean style.
Reactions and Reviews
Merle Decker is the godmother of K/S and ST gen illos. Definitely rocked my world when I first saw her artworks in Bloodstone and Broken Images.Her pen and ink are so recognizable that you know that the story she's illustrating is gonna be a good one. I love the variety of scenes that she can draw—very expressive. She is also an awesome writer.
Definitely a multi-talented lady. [1]
"I adore Merle Decker. I've hung on to the art she's done for my stories even after selling gobs (technical term!) of original K/S art over the past few years. I won't sell Merle's art."[2]
Fanfic
- Progressions (1985)
Gallery
from an unknown zine
from Terra Vulcan Yearbook #4 (1975)
from Terra Vulcan Yearbook #4 (1975)
cover of As I Do Thee #2
interior art As I Do Thee #1
interior art from As I Do Thee #2
cover of As I Do Thee #8
cover of The Bloodstone (1983)
cover of Broken Images (1983), showing Kirk torn between two universes.
interior art Broken Images
"Brother to a Dragon (Kirk)” by Merle Decker. A pen and ink drawing. 8½ x 11. Custom matted in metallic gold with black accents, 14x16. Dated 1985. This drawing may have been used to illustrate a fanzine.
cover of Captives (1981)
cover of Charisma #14
cover of Contact #8
Contact Christmas #1
Interior Art
cover of Dangerous Lives, Dangerous Visions #2
cover of Death Dance
cover of Home is the Hunter (1979)
interior art for Naked Times #3
Nightvisions (1979)
Interior art
Passages (1978) front cover
Passages (1978) interior art
Passages (1978) interior art
interior art Precessional
Interior art Precessional
cover of Psychic Storm (1987)
cover of Shadows in the Rain (1990)
cover of TLC
Interior art from Thrust (1978)
References
- ^ from The K/S Press #50
- ^ Alayne Gelfland's post to K/S Zine Friends Facebook Group on Sept 11, 2014, quoted with permission.