Connie Faddis
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Name: | Connie Faddis |
Alias(es): | Faddis, Constans Faddis, Connie Reich, crfaddis |
Type: | fan writer, fan artist, costumer, zine publisher, zine editor, tribber |
Fandoms: | Star Trek: TOS, Starsky & Hutch, Doctor Who |
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URL: | crfaddis at AO3 |
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Connie Faddis is an enormously talented fan who was active in many aspects of Star Trek and K/S fandom. She was an artist who did illustrations and cover art for many zines, including Broken Images. Connie was active in fandom, winning awards and making fanworks, from 1968 to the early 90s.
Her earliest fanworks were in Star Date #1, published in June 1968. In 1975, Faddis started the zine Interphase, which many fans consider the best gen fanzine of all time.[1] About her art reproduction technique a fellow fan said:
"On her first issue of Interphase, printed in 1975, Connie Faddis employed a method called silk-screening for her cover – a detailed, time-consuming project which only an accomplished artist like Connie would have the skill to pull off. But the rest of us settled for what we could learn and do more easily. Artistically, Interphase set the bar for all the zines that followed, in more ways than one."[2]
Connie was a fan writer (mostly in the late '70s) who contributed stories and meta to other people's zines as well as her own[3], and had two stories published in Star Trek: The New Voyages 2.
Her comments were included in an article comparing Star Trek to Star Wars in All About Star Trek Fan Clubs #6 (1977).
She was also a noted costumer, winning many Masquerades. Nancy Kippax called her one of the "Queens of Costuming."[4] From a June 1977 magazine: "She is one of the best known ST creative artists and writers in fandom. We don't mind if we say so. She publishes INTERPHASE, the famous and priceless silk screened zine. She has won many prizes in costume calls at the cons, and last year won second prize in the dance contest of the Bicentennial Con 10. Is there anything this creative lady cannot do?"[5] Many of Faddis' costume creations were based upon fan fiction – more than one was inspired by the Kraith series.
In 2014, a fan reviewed the Starsky & Hutch zine Zebra Three and had highly positive things to say about the restraint and power of Faddis's writing in the story Mojave Crossing. See Reading a 1977 Zine in 2014: Zebra Three.[6]
1977 Auto Bio
From Featured Fen -- The Visionary: Connie Faddis:
Paula Smith had asked me why I both write and draw--as though one medium weren't enough. That about says it. My imagination seems to work
in several modes. One is the visual tableau mode: I find a visual image in my mind, com posed of place (I'm very moved by the moods of places) and person(s). These get turned into drawings, often like the Fantasia art I've done in INTERPHASE, and have no particular story to go with them. Rather, they are germinal stories, frescoes lifted from the inside of my head. The other mode in which I fantasize most often is less serendipity and more drive. It moves like a film-strip in my mind, actors on a stage with some important (to me) statement to act out. The themes I write have very person al beginnings, and a lot of per sonalimagesandsymbols. I look back over the five years of Trek fiction I've written and trace the places my mind traveled (the drug scene, psy chotherapy, people's lib, private joys and betrayals, and so on) on its journey to where I am now and where I'm going next. Sometimes it's frightening; some times it's downright reassuring.
1982 Auto Bio
In 1982, she was nominated for a FanQ Award and she submitted a brief bio to The Annual Fan Q Awards Nominations Booklet:
"...I've been doing artwork for fanzines since around 1968, when I got into media fandom. I wince to think of my early efforts, and bless the kind souls who printed them. I've done artwork for such fandoms as Trek, Star Wars, Starsky & Hutch, Doctor Who, MASH, and regular sf. I wouldn't know where to begin to put together a zine publication credit list. but my artwork has appeared in SPOCKANALIA, T-NEGATIVE, MENAGERIE, INTERPHASE, THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE, ZEBRA THREE, GRAVEN IMAGES, ME AND THEE, TEN-THIRTEEN, THE FACES OF TIME, ZETA MINOR, JELLY BABY CHRONICLES, SYNDIZINE, WARPED SPACE, PEGASUS, and many others. Ten full-page illustrations in pen and ink (five of them doublepage spreads) were done in an interpretive style to accompany GRAVEN IMAGES; the illo shown from GRAVEN IMAGES for "Other Media" is called "The Hierophant"."
Interview
Awards
- At the third New York Star Trek convention in 1974, she won the costume contest dressed as a Romulan Praeter.
- Faddis was the recipient of the very first FanQ award for Best Artist in 1977. It was awarded at SeKWester*Con Too.
- In 1982, she won the FanQ Award as 'Best Star Wars Artist.'
- In 1988, she won the "Memory Alpha" Surak Award
- In 1991, she again won the FanQ, this time for her War of the Worlds art.
Guest of Honor
- Spectrum (1988)
Fan Comments
1969
ConR’s art is just marvelous. Still a little shaky on hand draughtsmanship but where she draws conscientiously she draws WELL. And her drawings look like she enjoyed doing them as I enjoyed looking at them.Jack Gaughan in the letters column of Granfalloon Issue #6 (1969)
I take typer in hand to respond to GF 5, with its strange cover, which wasn’t bad at all. Connie is quickly improving, and no wonder. Beside the cover,[Jeannie DiModica is also responsible for the cover — the Rorschach Granfalloon./] [editor's note]
I see by the table of contents that she does over 20 illos, the best of which are the ones like the spaceman on page 21, in that sort of ’multi-line’ style Gaughan sometimes, often, uses.Jeffy Kaufman in the letters column of Granfalloon Issue #6 (1969)
1994
[...]
almost anything by Connie Faddis should hold up [to professional, for-profit fiction]. I always thought that she should go pro, since she was one of the few writers who came up with good Sci Fi ideas, could write action, and do good minor characters, as well as write the main characters well. It was Connie who made me love McCoy.[7]
Examples of Fiction
Star Trek
- De Profundis (1975)
- Trial by Ordeal (1975)
- The Gardener's Craft (1975)
- Snakepit! (1975)
- The Third Wheel (1976)
- A Lesson in Perspective (1976)
- Confrontation (1976)
- Mad Dogs and Earthmen (1977)
- None There Embrace (1977)
- An Economy of Memories (1984)
Starsky & Hutch
- Mojave Crossing (1977)
- One Small Corner (1978)
- Solitaire (1979)
Doctor Who
- The Pawn of Leptos (1981)
Zine Contributions
Doctor Who
Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Star Trek
- Accumulated Leave
- Alien Brothers
- Alpha Continuum
- And Starry Skies
- Archives
- Broken Images
- The Compleat Faulwell/Landing Party 6
- Computer Playback
- Contact
- Delta Triad
- Despatch
- Diverse Dimensions
- Galactic Discourse
- A Gift of Scotch
- Grup
- Eclipse
- Energize!
- Engage!
- Fesarius
- Full Moon Rising
- Furaha
- The Halkan Council
- IDIC
- Interphase
- Interphase (calendar)
- Kraith Collected
- Masiform D
- Menagerie
- Metamorphois
- Minara Nova
- Mind Meld
- Neutral Zone Outpost
- Nome
- Obsc'zine
- Odyssey
- Off the Beaten Trek
- One Trek Mind
- Overload
- The Other Side of Paradise
- Pastaklan Vesla
- Pegasus
- Plak-Tow
- R & R
- Relay
- Rigel
- Rising Star (Star Trek: TOS zine)
- Saurian Brandy Digest
- Scuttlebutt
- Sehlat's Roar
- The Sensuous Vulcan
- Side-Trekked
- Spectrum
- Spockanalia
- The Star Trek Songbook
- Star Trek: The New Voyages (pro book)
- Star Trek Nuts & Bolts
- StarDate
- Sun and Shadow
- T-Negative
- The Trekker Cookbook
- Universal Transmitter
- Vault of Tomorrow
- Walter Koenig Fan Society Journal
- Warped Space
- The WKFS Journal
Star Wars
Starsky & Hutch
- Blond Blintz Bulletin
- Casa Cabrillo
- Celebration
- Code 7
- The Collected Starsky and Hutch Stories of Alexis Rogers
- Dirtball Dispatch
- Graven Images
- Mahko Root
- Me and Thee
- Memories
- Mojave Crossing
- One Shot
- Partners
- The Pits
- Play by Playbook: Collected ZebraCon Plays
- Podnahz
- Scales of Justice
- S and H
- Strange Justice
- Tell Me Something I Don't Know!
- Ten-Thirteen
- Wilderness
- Zebra Three
War of the Worlds
Other
- Dracula
- The Cannell Files (multimedia)
- February (Harry and Johnny)
- Granfalloon (science fiction) (named "artist in residence")
- Knightales (Knight Rider)
- No (science fiction)
- A Portfolio of Poetry and Portraits (Harry and Johnny)
- Potpourri (Harry and Johnny)
- Rerun (Airwolf, Hardcastle & McCormick, Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
- Syndizine (M*A*S*H)
- Who Rides for Justice? (Miami Vice)
Examples of Artwork
Unknown Date
1968
from Plak-Tow #10
from StarDate (1968)
from StarDate (1968)
Granfalloon Issue #2 front cover
Granfalloon Issue #5 front cover with
1969
from Spockanalia #4 (1969)
1972
from Masiform D #2 (1972)
from Pastaklan Vesla #4
1974
from Star Trek Nuts & Bolts #1
1975
from Energize! (1975)
from Energize! (1975)
from Energize! (1975)
from Energize! (1975)
from Interphase #1 (1975)
from No #17 (1975)
from T-Negative #27 (1975)
from One Trek Mind #3 (1975)
1976
from Interphase #3 (1976)
from The Other Side of Paradise #1, "Scotty" (1976)
from Interphase #3 (1976)
from Masiform D #5 (1976)
from Metamorphosis #2
single art, a Kirk/Spock/McCoy (TOS) illo entitled "Triad"
1977
from Zebra Three #1 (1977)
from Zebra Three #1 (1977)
from Zebra Three #1, illo for "Mojave Crossing" (1977)
from Interphase #4 (1977)
"Do Not Go Gentle," from Mahko Root #1 and the story Do Not Go Gentle (1977)
1978
from Saurian Brandy Digest #14 (1978)
from Saurian Brandy Digest #15 (1978)
from Zebra Three #2 (1978)
from Zebra Three #2 (1978)
winner of an Encore Award, from Zebra Three #2 (1978)
from issue #2, Hutch and Captain Dobey
from Zebra Three #2 (1978)
from Zebra Three #2 (1978)
from One Small Corner, portrays Hutch's mom, from Zebra Three #3 (1978)
from from One Small Corner, from Zebra Three #3 (1978)
from from One Small Corner, portrays Hutch's half-sister, from Zebra Three #3 (1978)
from from One Small Corner, from Zebra Three #3 (1978), portrays the original character Detective Decker
from Obsc'zine #3 (1978)
from Obsc'zine, for Between Friends (1978)
from Obsc'zine #3 (1978)
from Warped Space #33/34
1980
from Saurian Brandy Digest #25
original art for Faces of Time (art is dated 1980, zine is 1981)
from Sun and Shadow (1980)
from Zebra Three #5 (1980)
from One Shot (1980)
a study in shadows from One Shot (Starsky and Hutch zine) (1980)
a rare pencil sketch from One Shot (Starsky and Hutch zine) (1980)
more typical Connie Faddis artwork from One Shot (Starsky and Hutch zine) (1980)
from "Broken Faith," from the Starsky & Hutch zine Casa Cabrillo (1980)
Spock, Buddhist Mudra sacred gesture, from Nome #5 (art is 1980, zine was 1985)
from Nome #5 (art is 1980, zine was 1985)
Spock cradles a baby Andorian, from Galactic Discourse #3 (July 1980)
possibly from Jelly Baby Chronicles #1
possibly from Jelly Baby Chronicles #1
1981
from the zines February and A Portfolio of Poetry and Portraits, portrays Johnny from Harry/Johnny
from The Collected Starsky & Hutch Stories of Alexis Rogers (art is dated 1981, zine was 1996)
from Walter Koenig Fan Society Journal, September 1981
from Warped Space #45
from raven Images (1981)
from Graven Images (1981)
from t Me and Thee #2 (1981)
original art used on the front cover of The Other Side of Paradise #5 (art is 1980, zine is 1981)
from Jelly Baby Chronicles Holiday Issue #1
1982
from Code 7 #2
from Code 7 #2
from The Princess Tapes (1982)
from Strange Justice (1982)
from an unknown War of the Worlds zine (1982)
1983
Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark, from an unknown zine, "NOT the Divinity they were expecting" (1983)
from an unknown zine, portrays Starsky & Hutch and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1983)
from Vault of Tomorrow #4 (1983)
from Broken Images (1983)
close up of one half of interior spread for Broken Images (1983)
close up of 2nd half of interior spread for Broken Images (1983)
interior art spread fully opened, Broken Images (1983)
from the program guide for Panopticon West 1983
back cover of Faces of Time #3 (1983)
from Pegasus #6 (1983)
1985
cover of The Paladins Affair #1
may be a holiday card sent to fans: Jan Lindner and Connie Faddis finish the the last silkscreen for Scales of Justice: "May the scales always weigh in your favor!"
1986
from Who Rides for Justice? #1
1987
from Alien Brothers (1987)
from Knightales #3 (1987)
1988
from Sanctuary (1988)
from Sanctuary (1988)
from Mind Meld #5 (1988)
from The Wolf Pack Affair (MUNCLE /Airwolf) (1988)
1990
from Bring 'Em Back Alive (1990)
from an unknown War of the Worlds zine (1990)
from Bonaventure (1990)
from Bonaventure (1990)
1991
from "Just A Nice, Private Affair" in The St. Crispin's Day Society
from "Just A Nice, Private Affair" in The St. Crispin's Day Society
from "Among the Eagles" in The St. Crispin's Day Society
Unknown Date
Doctor Who art (unknown date)
from an unknown War of the Worlds zine (unknown date)
Yoda, unknown zine (unknown date)
created before The Empire Strikes Back
Landscape and Foldout Format
from Warped Space #29/30
from Graven Images (1981)
from Scales of Justice (1985)
from Scales of Justice (1985)
from Scales of Justice (1985)
from Scales of Justice (1985)
from Scales of Justice (1985)
Panorama
panoramic interior Zebra Three #1, illo for Mojave Crossing (1977)
panoramic interior Zebra Three #2 (1978) for Wilderness
References
- ^ Boldly Writing, by Joan Marie Verba, pg 24
- ^ Nancy Kippax (2008-07-20). "ARS GRATIA ARTIS:: The Lost Art of Illoing - Reminisce With Me ...through the Years in Fandom". LiveJournal. Archived from the original on 2022-11-03.
- ^ klhalliday. "Star Trek Zinedex(TOS) - Authors (F)". Archived from the original on 2004-10-17.
- ^ Nancy Kippax (2008-08-18). "COSTUMING -- More Than Just a Simplicity Pattern - Reminisce With Me ...through the Years in Fandom". LiveJournal. Archived from the original on 2022-11-03.
- ^ from All About Star Trek Fan Clubs #3
- ^ intrigueing (2014-10-05). "Reading a 1977 zine in 2014: Zebra Three #1 (Starsky & Hutch)". Dreamwidth. Archived from the original on 2022-11-03.
- ^ Gayle F's comment on Virgule-L, quoted with permission (June 17, 1994)