Beverly Zuk
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| Name: | Beverly Zuk |
| Alias(es): | Bev Zuk, Beverly C. Zuk, Catherine Clair |
| Type: | fanwriter, fanartist, convention organizer |
| Fandoms: | Star Trek: TOS, Buck Rogers |
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Beverly Zuk was a Star Trek: TOS fanartist and fanwriter.
Beverly died in August 2009. From her memorial page:
Bev was mostly a Trek fan, writing several novels, several of which are still available today. She particularly liked McCoy, who appealed to her sense of humor. She was one of the original members of the Trek Mafia, and helped with many SF and Media cons thru the years. [1]
In Memory
Bev was the first writer I met in fandom, and I pubished her first couple of novels on my Gestetner mimeo machine. The Trek Mafia had such a good time together, and made such fabulous true close friends. We were and are truly blessed to have had that opportunity. ~ MELISSA BAYARD CLEMMER[2]
Bev was one of my first friends in fandom. I met her through the round-robin when you sent one of my pieces around on it. She and several others stayed at my house one night after a con in NYC, and on my wall is a pen-and-ink drawing of Richard as a Vulcan child. ~ JUDY SEGAL [3]
I have fond memories of her, though I haven't been in touch with her in many many years. I think Richard will still remember her and I will pass the news along to him.[4]
I remember her as being bright, capable,and very nice to deal with.[5]
In Her Own Words: 1981
From a letter to Interstat #50, see I'd like to comment, yet again, on fans and their relation to the stars. for more:
I'd like to comment, yet again, on fans and their relation to the stars. You know in an era when it's unfashionable to knock a person's race, and declasse to bring up religion, it's becoming quite the thing, especially in the media to raise issue with how a person chooses to socialize. For instance: "The brains. Goodie-goodies. Weiners. Geeks. They were different, defiantly so. They got excellent grades, even though everyone else knew better, but never let anyone copy." Just a bit of the condescension ladled out to science fiction fans by Barbara Brotman in her article "Fantasy film buffs eye future - and find it fandom-tastic", Chicago Tribune, October 11, 1981.
Which oddly enough, calls to mind the concept of IDIC. That is, the right to be different; to have a different world view; a right to have different likes and dislikes; and a right to air those different opinions. The right to differ is of course embedded in the Constitution of the United States. Why then did Mr. Roddenberry feel it necessary to take that embedded ideal out of its setting, so to speak, and placing it against the black velvet of drama, expose its many facets to the glare of public opinion? Was it perhaps, because he'd just lived through the "be like the Jones, 50s', when the great social sin was to be different or eccentric? And so Mr. Roddenberry asked a question: "What's so bad about being different?"; also, "What's so bad about being smart?"; and "What's so bad about not following the herd?" Spock was, of course, the major vehicle for those questions.
Well, it seems to me that a lot of persons heard those questions, and decided there was nothing very wrong with any of those things. A lot of those people happened to be women. By an odd twist, I believe Mr. Roddenberry did more for women's lib than Gloria Steinem. He made women accept their right to be different.
In Her Own Words: 1982
In 1982, she was nominated for a FanQ award and submitted the following bio to The Annual Fan Q Awards Nominations Booklet:
"Bev Zuk has been in fandom about six years--STAR Trek-- and has stayed mostly in that area, though she's done occasional pieces for DRACULA and STAR WARS stories. She's done illustrations and covers for many ST zines and written for some--mostly R & R under the name of Catherine Clair. She now has her own zine, THE HONORABLE SACRIFICE, written under her own name. She's been recently involved with R & R (all covers),MASIFORM D, GALACTIC DISCOURSE, GUARDIAN, THE DISPLACED, PERN PORTFOLIO, SAHSHEER, and OBSC'ZINE. She's currently studying commercial art and photography in college.... She has recently completed two projects that she is very proud of. The first was the cover and all the interior·art for Lois Welling's new zine, TRANSITIONS. And then there was her new zine, THE THIRD VERDICT, which she wrote and illustrated. Still under wraps but coming soon are publication of the cover of OBSC'ZINE 5 and interior art for ORGANIA."
A Fan's Comments
The following three zines are novels written and illustrated by the late Beverly Zuk, included [on my "zine keeper list"] because they have The Whole Package—external plots appropriate to the fictional universe (with three-dimensional characters, both established and original, and well-thought out settings) and an exploration of characters and relationships based on a genuine understanding of same and arising organically out of the plot.
The Honorable Sacrifice (1981)
The Third Verdict (1982)
Lifeboat (1989) [7]
Zine Contributions
Accumulated Leave | The Adult Kirk | Archives | Continuum | The Displaced | Diverse Dimensions | Don't! Tell It to the Captain | Dracula | Eel-Bird Banders' Bulletin | Enter-comm | Enterprise Incidents (US) | Galactic Discourse | Guardian | Grup | The Honorable Sacrifice | Lifeboat | LoneStar Trek | Masiform D | Mind Meld | Nome | Obsc'zine | The Other Side | Odyssey | Organia | Pegasus | Pern Portfolio | R & R | Rigel (Star Trek: TOS zine) | Sol Plus | Stellar Gas | Time Warp | The Third Verdict | Transition | TREKisM at Length | Vault of Tomorrow | Warped Space
Meta
- So You Want to Be a Fan Artist! (1978)
- I'd like to comment, yet again, on fans and their relation to the stars. (1981)
Gallery
Unknown Date
1976
1977
interior art The Other Side #3, part of Beverly Zuk's Star Trek Triad
from R & R #3
from R & R #3
from R & R #3
from R & R #4
from R & R #4
from R & R #4
from R & R #4
from R & R #4
from R & R #4
from R & R #4
from Pegasus #2
from Eel-Bird Banders' Bulletin #1
from Obsc'zine #1
from Obsc'zine #1
from Obsc'zine #1
from Obsc'zine #2: for "The Ballad of Jim, Max and Floo"
1978
from Enterprise Incidents (US) #6
from Pern Portfolio
from Galactic Discourse #2
from Galactic Discourse #2
from Warped Space #31/32
centerfold from Grup #6
cover for The Displaced (1978)
centerfold for The Displaced
from The Displaced
from The Displaced - the author notes in an ad that the zine "contains one sexually explicit scene. If you are hyper-sensitive, be warned."
from The Displaced
from The Displaced
front cover of Eel-Bird Banders' Bulletin #2
cover Time Warp #2, "Dimension Warp" -- a chrome finish color cover
from R & R #6/7
from R & R #6/7
from R & R #6/7
1979
original art, not in a zine, part of Beverly Zuk's Star Trek Triad
from Warped Space #42
cover for Guardian #2
from Nome #1
from Nome #1
from Nome #1
from Rigel #4/5/6
from Rigel #4/5/6
from Rigel #4/5/6
from Sol Plus #6
from Sol Plus #6
from Sol Plus #6
from R & R #9
from R & R #9
from R & R #9
from R & R #9
from R & R #9
from R & R #9
from R & R #9
from R & R #10
from R & R #11
from Stellar Gas #1
1980
from Obsc'zine #4
from Galactic Discourse #4: Mirror Kirk and Marlena Moreau, from "Raison d'Etre," a story that is also a chapter in Revolution
from Galactic Discourse #4: Mirror Kirk and Mirror Spock, from "Raison d'Etre," a story that is also a chapter in Revolution
from Dracula
from Dracula
from Accumulated Leave #1
cover for Masiform D #10
from Obsc'zine #4, see Beverly Zuk's Star Trek Triad
from R & R #10 and #12
1981
from Enter-comm #4
from Enter-comm #4
cover for R & R #13
cover for R & R #14
from R & R #14
from R & R #14
from R & R #14
from Guardian #3
cover for The Honorable Sacrifice
![from The Honorable Sacrifice: "Ms. Zuk, who is also an artist, has created four designs reminiscent of medieval wood-block prints to alternate at the head of each chapter. As the story changes location or subject, the designs also change from ship to fortress to snow storm to an armored figure mounted on a kuri. The last are an sf creation worthy of note: winged beasts of burden who play an unexpected role in the story's denouement. In addition to the repeating block prints (these are, by the way, especially suited for mimeo reproduction), there are six full-page illos printed offset. Though all are good, I found a montage of Spock and Scott particularly satisfying." [8]](/w/images/thumb/e/e2/Honorable2.jpg/180px-Honorable2.jpg)
from The Honorable Sacrifice: "Ms. Zuk, who is also an artist, has created four designs reminiscent of medieval wood-block prints to alternate at the head of each chapter. As the story changes location or subject, the designs also change from ship to fortress to snow storm to an armored figure mounted on a kuri. The last are an sf creation worthy of note: winged beasts of burden who play an unexpected role in the story's denouement. In addition to the repeating block prints (these are, by the way, especially suited for mimeo reproduction), there are six full-page illos printed offset. Though all are good, I found a montage of Spock and Scott particularly satisfying." [8]
![from The Honorable Sacrifice: "Ms. Zuk, who is also an artist, has created four designs reminiscent of medieval wood-block prints to alternate at the head of each chapter. As the story changes location or subject, the designs also change from ship to fortress to snow storm to an armored figure mounted on a kuri. The last are an sf creation worthy of note: winged beasts of burden who play an unexpected role in the story's denouement. In addition to the repeating block prints (these are, by the way, especially suited for mimeo reproduction), there are six full-page illos printed offset. Though all are good, I found a montage of Spock and Scott particularly satisfying." [8]](/wiki/File:Honorable2.jpg)
1982
original art, not from a zine, part of Beverly Zuk's Star Trek Triad
from The Third Verdict
from The Third Verdict
from The Third Verdict
from The Third Verdict
from The Third Verdict
from The Third Verdict
from The Third Verdict
from Organia
from Organia: Superman from the "Portfolio of Sensuous Men"
from Organia: James Kirk from the "Portfolio of Sensuous Men"
cover for Transition (1982)
from Transition
from Transition
from Transition
from Transition
from Transition
from Transition
cover for R & R #17
from R & R #17
from R & R #17
from R & R #17
1983
from TREKisM at Length #3
from R & R #18
from R & R #18
from R & R #18
from R & R #18
from Diverse Dimensions #4
cover for Continuum
from Galactic Discourse #4, The Big Three as The Three Musketeers, plus Scotty
from Galactic Discourse #4
from Galactic Discourse #4
from Odyssey #7
1984
from Vault of Tomorrow #5
from The Adult Kirk
from The Adult Kirk
cover for R & R #19
from R & R #19
from R & R #19
cover for R & R #20
1985
![from Mind Meld #2: "Bev Zuk's picture on p. 200, in particular, is a good candidate for a Fan Q nomination, in my opinion." - [9]](/wiki/File:Mindmeld2art6.jpg)
1986
from Odyssey #8
1987
from Galactic Discourse #5
from Odyssey #7.5
1988
from Mind Meld #5
1989
1990
from LoneStar Trek #3
from LoneStar Trek #3
1991
from Mind Meld #6
1992
from LoneStar Trek #5
from Mind Meld #7
from Mind Meld #7
1998
from Masiform D #18, portrays Gene Roddenberry
References
- ^ In Memoriam Bev Zuk, Archived version.
- ^ "In Memoriam Bev Zuk".
- ^ "In Memoriam Bev Zuk".
- ^ "In Memoriam Bev Zuk".
- ^ "In Memoriam Bev Zuk".
- ^ "In Memoriam Bev Zuk".
- ^ comment by kslangley at What was your first fandom?, August 28, 2016
- ^ from Universal Translator #17
- ^ Treklink #2