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Barbara Fister-Liltz
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Name: | Barbara Fister Liltz, Barbara Fister-Liltz |
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Type: | fanartist, fanzine publisher |
Fandoms: | Multifandom, Stargate: Atlantis, Forever Knight, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate: SG-1 |
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URL: | Cyphre Voudou - "Come for the Treasure ~ Stay for the Voudou, Archived version |
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Barbara Fister-Liltz is a prolific fanartist who has created covers and interior fanart for zines in many fandoms.
She has won numerous fan awards and has also done commercial art work, along with editing and publishing fanzines such as Melange.
She has been attending conventions since the mid 1980s.
Her husband, Frank Liltz, often worked with her on illustrating fanzines and books. Together they published under the name of Fenris House Press.
In later years Barbara also published under the name of Alchemy Ink.
Self-Bio
In 1982, she was nominated for a FanQ award and submitted the following bio to The Annual Fan Q Awards Nominations Booklet:
"Fan Clubbing - began when I was 11 with the Roger Smith FC and James Garner FC...8 years as VP of the Official Dave Clark Five FC (did a lot of traveling with them working backstage, riding in police cars, etc) ... am still staff artist for the Jerry Lacy FC after 10 years ... art director for the American Peter Cushing Club for its 10 year run ... presently art director for the Thom Christopher FC (and he's gorgeous)
Fannish Interests - Involved in DARK SHADOWS since it first began and am still involved ... staff artist and biographer for THE WORLD OF DARK SHADOWS ... staff artist and film critic for NIGHT WAVES/DARK UNIVERSE ... staff artist for PURPLE AND ORANGE and FACETS and DINDERA LOST #2
Personally - with my friend/partner Bill Hunt I'm a half of Pandora Publications (CHOSEN HAUNTS anthology, OUTLANDS anthology, various DARK SHADOWS novels and anthologies, art portfolios, music books, etc) ... on exec staff for Raven, Ltd, which publishes fannish novels, anthologies, poetry books and art portfolios - also for Raven Productions, Ltd., our video production company (first offering is a gothic anthology called "Embers" featuring fan writing, poetry and classics in the genre all visualized) ... am still on the exec committee for ShadowCon, the annual gothic horror con in LA, this is our 6th year..."
Awards
- 1982 FanQ award Best Other Media Artist for Facets #7/8 and Purple and Orange?
- 2001 nominated for a Star Award for Best Color Cover Artist (Bright Center of the Universe #10)
- 2005 FanQ STARGATE, BEST GEN ARTIST
- 2006 MediaWest art show award: Best Horror: Dark Embrace
Fan Comments
In 1993, two members of the Peter Cushing fan club discussed the actor's reaction to Barbara's oil painting that she presented to him (A photo of the painting can be viewed here (painting is on the far left):
Barb Liltz, a member of the club and talented artist -- "She can neverbe too successful as far as I'm concerned" -- did an oil painting of Mr. Cushing in TALES FROM THE CRYPT, and they presented it to him that day. "I remember that he sat there and he was astounded. He was without words, because he's an artist himself. He was praising her work and he was just so touched by this."
Tom cuts in. "You got the impression that he would have been very impressed had it been a stick figure drawn with crayons."
Debbie disagrees. "He was impressed with her artwork from the covers she did for the journals, and this was even better. And he was touched that we thought enough to give it to him." She's got proof to back it up. "When he did his next film, he brought the painting on the set and had the stills photographer take pictures of himself, and Freddy Francis, and the portrait, and he sent a copy to us. I think that it was nice that even that far down the line he was still touched by it."'[1]
Her Forever Knight painting La Famille inspired Lisa Wright to write a story with the same name in 2002.
....MWC is a media convention, with an art show that has lots of media-based artwork. And there, nestled in among the pictures of Frank and Ray and Methos and Blair and Marcus, there was a watercolor by Barbara Fister-Liltz of four adorable [Teletubbies] thingies with patches in the middle of their stomachs. [2]
Zines Published/Edited by Barbara Fister-Liltz
Barbara published under several press names, including Fenris House, Special Services Unlimited, and Pandora Publications.
- Bedtime Stories from the Dead of Winter
- Belinda: A Weekend in New England
- Biting Satire, or Forever Knight Lite!
- Black Amber
- Cauchemar
- Chimera
- Chosen Haunts
- Conquistador: The Vachon Collection
- Dark Graffiti
- Dark Kiss
- Dark Sluggos
- Dark Vengeance
- Dark, Dark My Light
- The Devil You Know
- Die Laughing
- Echoes of Death
- Eclectic
- The Edge of the Abyss
- En Famille
- Faery Tale
- Fantazy (with Joan Shumsky)
- The Forever Knight Compendium
- Four Seasons With LaCroix
- Furever Knight, or The View from Down Under
- Heat
- It Grew Behind... Cabinet
- It's a Wonderful Unlife
- Jayne A. Largent Cartoon Series
- Knightbeat
- Lagniappe
- Melange (with Joan Shumsky)
- Mixed Media
- Nightbeat
- No Other Love
- Outlands
- Red Shoe Diaries
- Samskar
- Soul on Fire: Pompeii Revisited
- Spirits & Shades
- Tales from the Black Pearl
- The 'Til Death Do Us Part Affair
- tracings
- Tryst of Dark Shadows
- Twists of Fate
- Veritas
- Vive la Resistance!
- When We Weep
- Winner Takes All (Magnificent Seven zine)
Zines with Barbara Fister-Liltz's Art
- Belinda: A Weekend in New England
- The Cat in the Tricorne Hat
- Chaapa'ai #1, #2
- The Dark Angel Trilogy
- Dark Vengeance
- Decades: 1760-1800 (art and poetry)
- Eclectic
- Facets (Harrison Ford zine) #7/8 and 10
- Fire in His Soul
- Galactica
- Inside the Old House
- Jumper #2
- KarlenZine
- Lurkers in the Shadows
- Masquerade Calendar
- Masks
- Mirrors (Beauty and the Beast zine)
- No Other Love
- On the Wings of the Wind
- Red Dust
- Reflections
- Resolutions in Time
- Showcase #2
- Simple Gifts
- Tales from the Black Pearl
- The U.N.C.L.E. Special
- The World of Dark Shadows
- The Traveller Songbook
- What You Fancy #2
- Who's Scruffy-Lookin'?
Sample Art
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Illya Kuryakin - "The amazing this is that this is scratchboard and you remove the black to reveal white underneath. That shirt constantly amazes me. It's the pride of my collection... She is truly gifted and I was lucky because I caught her before she'd really 'made' it, so I could still afford her prices. Worth every penny." [3]
"Whether to Tame the Flight of His Fancy" (The Professionals)
Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin (1987)
"Hawk" from Buck Rogers
cover of Chaapa'ai #1
cover of Chaapa'ai #2
cover of Jumper #2
This original painting features an image of Sir Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi. It was part of a collection of 12 cameo portraits done for Forry Ackerman in the 1980s. The image area measures 4" x 4".
cover Masks
an undated illo of Spock
art for Showcase #2
References
- ^ C Y B E R S P A C E V A N G U A R D, News and Views of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Universe Volume I, Issue 5 dated August 15, 1993.
- ^ Teletubbies and TAFF post at rec.arts.sf.fandom dated July 27, 1998.
- ^ from spikesgirl58 at The drawing I was speaking of earlier (March 2021)