Allan Asherman
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| Name: | Allan Asherman |
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| Type: | Fan Writer, Fan Artist, pro-writer |
| Fandoms: | Science Fiction, Star Trek, Space:1999, Superman, Battlestar Galactica, others |
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Allan Asherman was a former editor of DC Comics. He wrote for such magazines as "Space Warp," "Star Encounters," and "The STAR TREK Poster Magazine."
From a 1978 interview:
I really can't conceive of the time in my life that I wasn't into [writing about science fiction]. I started to write in college for my college paper, "The Oracle", at the State University in New Port. And they asked me to do a movie review. I handed in a review that was much too long to be printed, because I got carried away. They sent me out to do a review of an Andy Warhol movie and I referred to Andy Warhol films as a product of "The Emperor's New Suit of Clothes" syndrome, where people were looking at something that had virtually nothing in it, but were afraid to comment on the fact for fear that they would be called stupid and shallow. And they liked it and they asked me to do a series of reviews on movies and I did. And when I transferred to Long Island University, and majored in journalism, I kept writing for the paper. They had a science fiction club and their fanzine, called "The Seldon Scene", a pun on "seldom seen" I guess, was also the first fanzine in which Juan Bodea, to my knowledge, was published, his cartoons. I had a good friend in college. Bill Stillwell, who was an artist, is today an M.D. doing medical illustrations for text books, and we both had our first story and art in that same issue. There's a certain feeling that you get when you see your name in print, and it's a disease. You can't live without it once you've seen it. I caught it, so I know. And this is really how I got into it. [1]
Books by Asherman
- Star Wars -- The Full Story: The Making of the World's Greatest Space Adventure Movie, with Jonathon Green and Doug Murray
- The Star Trek Compendium, 1981. Revised or reprinted several times
- The Making of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, 1982
- Who's Who in Star Trek, 1987 (editor, Robert Greenberger; writer/researcher, Allan Asherman)
- The Star Trek Interview Book, 1988
- Batman Returns Official Collector' Magazine, 1992 (editor, Gary Gerani; writer, Allan Asherman)
Interview
Panalist, Guest of Honor, and/or Con Com Member
- the very, very first Star Trek con Star Trek Con in 1969
- August Party
- ClipperCon
- Creation Con
- Neo-Star
- The Playboy Science Fiction Convention
- The Richmond Star Trek Convention
- Star Trek Lives!
- Star Trek Revival
- certainly more, please add
Amateur Zines Which Contain Content by Asherman
Alien Worlds #1 (Flash Gordon article) | Allan Asherman's Portfolio | Alpha Log (interview) | Back Trekkin' (art) | The Final Frontier (editior, newszine,1976) | Pastaklan Vesla (art) | Spockanalia (art) | Kraith Collected (art) | Grup (art) | The Log of the U.S.S. Enterprise (art) | Masiform D (art) | Monkey of the Inkpot (art) | Tetrumbriant (art) | Voyages (art) | Perihelion (articles and fiction) | Star Battles | The Monster Times (editor for some early issues)
Star Trek Art
from Spockanalia #2 (1968)
front cover of Quadrant #2 (1971)
from Kraith Collected #4 (1974)
back cover of Grup #1 (1972)
from Guardian #1 (1978)
inside Probe #12 (1978)
