George Barr
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Name: | George Barr |
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Type: | artist |
Fandoms: | Star Trek: TOS & Tolkien |
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George Barr is a fanartist. Grup #2 notes he was professional artist who worked on the Star Trek: TOS set during the third season.
A fan remembers Barr commenting on and to a group of neo-fan artists: "You draw eyes, mouths, noses, cheek-bones, and ears very well, but you don't quite put them in the right places." [1]
- "The Reference Guide to Fantastic FIlms" (pro book) (cover)
- Graveside Grope and Grup #2 (centerfold of Sulu)
- The Hobbit Coloring Book (interior)
- The Star Trek Songbook #3 (cover)
- T-Negative #19 (cover)
- Orcrist #3 (interior)
- I Palantir #2 (cover)
- Star Trek Concordance (interior art)
Winner of a Hugo Award
Barr was the winner of the 1968 Best Artist Hugo.
From the awards speech:
[HARLAN ELLISON]: The nominees this year are: George Barr, (The little green dragon) Johnny Chambers, Steve Stiles, Arthur Thomson (better known as ATom), Bjo Trimble.
Dum de dum. I didn’t bring the suspense tape this year. The reaction last year was a riot. The winner this year is George Barr. Accepting for George Barr will be Bjo Trimble. That takes guts. She’s got a great looking couple of babies. One of them bit me.
[BJO TRIMBLE]: George very modestly wrote me, after I asked him what he would do in case he won a Hugo. He said, “First I’m going to faint, then on the very off chance that all of those people out there actually think I’m a good enough artist to win a Hugo, I want you to go up and pick it up, because you look better up there than I do anyway.” I don’t quite agree with that. George is one of the most wonderful people I know. He is very, very shy. I wish he could be up here and see how many people think he’s really great. Thank you. [2]
Gallery
cover of I Palantir #2 (1961)
cover of The Star Trek Songbook; art also used as the cover of T-Negative #19 (1973)
centerfold from Graveside Grope & Grup #2 (1973)
Nurse Christine Chapel - Star Trek Concordance, 1969
D.C. Fontana - Star Trek Concordance, 1969
David Gerrold - Star Trek Concordance, 1969
Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek Concordance, 1969
References
- ^ from a comment in Comlink #54, a fan admits this is a paraphrase
- ^ speech transcription, Hugo Awards