Signe Landon
For other fans named Signe see the Signe disambiguation page.
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| Name: | Signe Landon, Signe Danler |
| Alias(es): | Signe L. |
| Type: | fanartist, fanwriter, fanzine publisher |
| Fandoms: | Star Trek: TOS and Star Wars, Starsky & Hutch, Sherlock Holmes, Darkover, Wild Wild West |
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Signe Landon was an early Star Trek: TOS and Star Wars fan writer and fan artist.
Landon got into fandom in 1972 "through a complicated series of events when she read an article in a newspaper mentioning odd things called 'fanzines.' She wrote the editor, was referred to Associated Press who contacted Gene Roddenberry, who then gave Landon Devra Langsam's address." [1]
She was also the editor of The Holmesian Federation, a Sherlock Holmes/Star Trek: TOS cross-over fanzine anthology. Her artwork was also used in Jacqueline Lichtenberg's original series Ambrov Zeor - the logo on the cover of each issue after issue #3 was Signe Landon's design which won the logo contest.[2]
Signe's artwork also inspired others. One fan, Joan Verba, wrote: "One of the major reasons I bought the Gateway fanzine was its artwork. Signe Landon contributed a Kirk, Spock, and McCoy piece called "Strange Visitors." This was the first piece of artwork that inspired me to write a story — before this, all I could write in response to artwork was nonfiction analysis. [3] "[4].
There was also a mischievous side: "At Equicon, Eileen Roy and Signe Landon got an idea for a parody of Kraith Collected, and with the help of other fans put together a small (13 paged) photocopied booklet called Krait-Spock's Anthropods. As a take-off on Kraith's numbering system (examples: IIa, IIIb), the number of this installment was the symbol for infinity."[5].
In 1981, Signe Landon was nominated for a FanQ award and submitted the following bio to The Annual Fan Q Awards Nominations Booklet:
"Signe Landon has been in fandom quite a while, since '73, she thinks. She started out in ST fandom, as an artist and film clip trader, and after a while dropped clip trading and took up zine editing, filksong writing, and occasional story-writing. In more recent years her interests, have expanded to include SW, S&H, Sherlock Holmes, Darkover, general media fandom, etc., and from the beginning, sf has been a major interest. In the last year or so she's been trying to refine her work, and has been concentrating more on sf and fantasy subjects. She's also taken up stained glass, which unfortunately can't be reproduced in zines. She's edited THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE 1 through 3 and THE HOLMESIAN FEDERATION 1 and 2, and has won numerous art show awards at assorted conventions. She is nominated for Favorite Single Artwork."
Interview
Gallery
1974
cover of Sol III, issue #1 (1974)
cover of Sol III, issue #2 (1974)
1975
inside page from The Clipper Trade Ship #6 (1975)
1976
from Off the Beaten Trek #2
from Off the Beaten Trek #2
Spock, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
Gem from "The Empath," one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
1977
interior art from Zebra Three #1 (1977)
1978
cover of Guardian 1 (1978)
cover of NTM Collected #1 (1978)
cover of Skywalker #2 (1978)
cover of Zebra Three #3 (1978)
inside art for Paradise (1978)
inside art for Paradise (1978)
inside art for Paradise (1978)
interior art in The Other Side of Paradise #3 (1978
art from Galactic Discourse #2, titled "Knight to King One"
"Knight to King One" was later sold at an unknown auction, the medium was pen and ink, and watercolor
1979
cover of Mission to Mrinn (1979)
cover of Nightvisions (1979)
interior art from Nightvisions (1979)
interior art Sins of the Father (1979)
interior art Sins of the Father (1979)
interior art Sins of the Father (1979)
interior art Sins of the Father (1979)
interior art Zebra Three #4 (1979)
1980
interior art in Precessional (Star Trek) (1980)
cover of Precessional (Star Trek) (1980)
from Alpha Continuum #4 (1980)
from unknown zine, Kirk as Horatio Hornblower
1982
cover of Organia (1982)
1983
covers of Green Harvest #2
cover of Galactic Discourse #3 (1983)
cover of A Plague in Time (1983)
inside art for Broken Images (1983)
cover of Rerun #1, printed in [Textual Poachers]] (1983)
cover of Galactic Discourse #4 (1983)
back cover of The Other Side of Paradise #6 (1983)
1986
cover of Masiform D #15 (1986)
1987
cover of Galactic Discourse #5 (1987)
1994
cover of Behind the Lines v.3 no.4 (1994)
References
- ^ from Who's Who in Star Trek Fandom
- ^ The Starred Cross: A Peace Symbol (accessed 23 Jan 2010)
- ^ This story, "Footprints in the Sand," was later published in Masiform D.
- ^ Boldly Writing, pg. 57
- ^ Boldly Writing, pg. 34