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Charlie Kirby
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| Name: | Charlie Kirby, Charlene Kirby |
| Alias(es): | Spikesgirl58 [1] |
| Type: | Fanartist, Fanwriter, Tribber |
| Fandoms: | Man from U.N.C.L.E., Quantum Leap |
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Charlie Kirby, or Charlene Kirby, is a fanartist and fanwriter that contributed to zines in the 1990s.
A Fannish Autobiography
Welcome to Del Floria’s! My name is Spikesgirl and I’m one of the three moderators here. Some of you may know me from the Canteen. For anyone new, I started enjoying and writing MFU fiction back in 1980. I stumbled across a story in a multi-media zine (The Extraordinarily [sic] Discretion Affair [2] by Susan Matthews). It was about four pages long and when I reached the end of it, I was madly intrigued. Mentioning it to my new husband, he took me by the hand and led me into the study, where he proudly showed me his MFU collection – oh, boy, talk about baptism by fire. A month later, at his urging, I wrote my first MFU story (The Romanian Affair) [3]. And the rest, as they say, is history. I’ve been writing and drawing ever since. We published the first all-MFU all–the-time zine (U is for UNCLE) later that year and for the next eleven years following.
Then, as is often the case, real life handed us a challenge and MFU was placed on the back burner. I was still writing fanfic (Batman, BtVS, along with MFU), but I no longer had the desire to go the zine route. I was tired and we won’t go into the other garbage surrounding that decision.
Then I discovered Fanfiction.net (thank you, Lisa) and took that first step towards on-line publishing. And for a couple of years, that was enough… then an e mail from St. Crispin urged me to join Live Journal. And things sort of exploded after that until we reach now… it’s been a wild ride and I’m sure we’re not at the end of it yet. [4]
Example Fanfiction/Zines
- One Man's Fears (Batman)
- A Taste of the Foothills (Man from Uncle)
Example Art Gallery
Art from U.N.C.L.E. Affairs (1989) (Man from Uncle)
Art from Comrades #2 (1990) (Man from Uncle)
Art from Remote Control #1 (1991) (Man from Uncle)
Art from Remote Control #3 (1993) (Batman)
Art from Our Favorite Things #10 (1994) (Quantum Leap)
References
- ^ pseuds connected at A Blast From the Past (Aug 17, 2019)
- ^ This was "The Extraordinary Discretion Affair" in Guardian #3 (May 1981)
- ^ "The Romanian Affair" was published in The U.N.C.L.E. Special #1 was published in April 1983.
- ^ from Del Floria’s, a Man from U.N.C.L.E. rec community (May 2011)