Don't You Just Love Leonard Nimoy?
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Title: | Don't You Just Love Leonard Nimoy? |
Publisher: | |
Editor(s): | Claire Mason & Karen Flanery |
Type: | art portfolio |
Date(s): | May 1970 |
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Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
Language: | English |
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Don't You Just Love Leonard Nimoy? is a gen Star Trek: TOS 50-page art portfolio by Claire Mason & Karen Flanery. There were 60 copies made.
The zine contains 50 pages of illustrations of Leonard Nimoy. Most illos are accompanied by a short comment that is some sort of social commentary and/or an in-joke regarding romance, wish-fulfillment, and celebrity life.
A similar zine is Karen & Leonard: A Monochromatic Romance.
Some Ads
From March 1970: "If you have ordered and haven't received it yet, contact Karen! Post office -- sometimes -- well you know! Not my fault!! I try!!" [1]
From August 1970: "What happens when two artists get together over the same subject? A book! We gots a book of drawings available called, "Don't You Just Love Leonard Nimoy?" - for one dollar and two 6 cents stamps, we mail one to you. Any profits to UNICEF." [2]
Content
Nimoy and Spock are basically relentlessly pursued by women, and is portrayed as being both a good sport and as well as a bit terrified.
The illos include include Nimoy as:
- characters he portrayed on stage and screen ("Visit to a Small Planet," Roger in a film called "The Balcony," his portrayal of Paris (from Mission Impossible acting as "Yuri Zager")
- Spock in fantasy settings aboard the Enterprise (example: going to the "InterGalaxy Dance" with Mason or Flanery.)
- himself in self-insertion illos with Flanery or Mason as she and Spock snuggle, make a wish over splitting a turkey wishbone
- in settings that portray his popularity (sitting on bags of mail, shielding his eyes from the flash of cameras, charming a young fan)
- characters in movies, plays, and books he didn't appear in ("Anna and the King of Siam" and "Laurence of Arabia" and as J.R.R. Tolkien's Aragorn)
"Look -- Considering all the other annexations impossible -- how about adoption?" At the top, "Whole Blame LNNAF." (Flanery imagining a close real life (possibly highly inappropriate!) relationship with Nimoy.)
"Look, we'll send you to a plastic surgeon -- point your ears, and when it's all over -- we'll pay to have them put back to normal!" (Gene Roddenberry and Nimoy in an imagined setting.)
"Captain... the next time they call Star Trek a kiddie show... let them!" (breaking the fourth wall)
"Come on! Get out of there, Yuri!" (A triple transfer: Nimoy portrays a character ("Paris") who portrays another character ("Yuri") from Mission Impossible.)
Nimoy in Visit to a Small Planet
Nimoy as Aragorn
the last page: "If we don't quit this, he's gonna kill us!" (Flanery and Mason or Flanery in a surreal threesome, both snuggling and drawing Nimoy at the same time. See a similar illo in Karen & Leonard: A Monochromatic Romance.)
References
- ^ from LNAF Bulletin (March 1970)
- ^ from LNAF Bulletin (August 1970)