Beverly Zuk's Star Trek Triad
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| Title: | not titled, the title is one that is used here on Fanlore |
| Artist: | Beverly Zuk |
| Date(s): | 1977-1982 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
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Beverly Zuk created a set of three illos with a similar theme.
They are part of a set, but they were not created at the same time.
The first one portrayed Jim Kirk (1977), then Spock (1979), and Leonard McCoy (1982).
When Lois Welling saw the Kirk one, and said "that’s wonderful, but where is Spock." So Lois commissioned Bev to do Spock for her. Then McCoy was done later as part of the series.
Their Zine Presence
The illo of Kirk appears as the centerfold in The Other Side in 1978 where it is cut off slightly at the bottom. One reviewer of that zine noted: "And lest I forget the fold-out, Beverly Zuk out-did herself with her portrayal of sleeping Kirk. I only wish it had been a full-length portrayal. Bev cuts it off at a rather interesting place." [1]
A similar illo of McCoy appears as the cover of Obsc'zine #4 in 1978.
The illo of Spock: unknown publication, if any.
The Art
Mystery
The illo by Zuk of McCoy is very similar, but also very different than the one that was used for the cover of Obsc'zine #4, also by Zuk.
Some fan comments about that piece:
From a 1994 conversation where a fan remarked that this cover reminded her of photo-manips. She said:
Of you who like explicit art, what do you feel about using computer scanning and editing to create explicit art *from actual photographs*? The technology is there [now in 1994] to scan in a photo of the actor and a photo from a porn mag and merge the two. Which reminded me of "OBSCZINE", an old Trek slash/adult zine that used to paste-up just that way. Naked guy picture or drawing, Kirk's or Spock's or McCoy's head.
- I know Bev Zuk did the McCoy cover by hand. Of course, she used plenty of references for the body -- none of them DeForest Kelly.[2]
Obsc'zine #4 front cover (1978), nominated for a Fan Q.
the 1982 drawing
References
- ^ from Right of Statement #3
- ^ comment by Michelle Christian, on Virgule-L, quoted with permission (September 1, 1994)