Melea Fisher

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Name:	Melea Fisher
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Type:	fanartist, cosplayer, zine editor
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Melea Fisher and her husband, Mark Fisher, were Star Wars cosplayers, fan artists, and zine editors.

She was the winner of the 1991 The STAR aWARdS for the front cover of On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah #5.

Zine Contributions

• Far Realms
• From a Certain Point of View

• Imperium
• On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah
• Only Hope
• Pursuit of the Nashtah
• Shooting Star

• Tremor in the Force
• The Wookiee Commode

As a Cosplayer

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  cosplayers are Mark Fisher, Melea Fisher, Mark Word, and Paul Roberts, photo was taken in 1982, emulates the Rolling Stone cover

In 1985, Jeanine Hennig described meeting the Fishers at a convention:

Here I was, half-sitting on the floor, clad in green paint and tentacles, waiting (like everyone else) for the costume contest to begin, when this black-clad, blond young man comes up to me and says, "Hey, GREAT costume!"

I look up and nearly drop my teeth. Naw, it couldn't be. Aforesaid young man almost got his bones jumped, then and there, then I looked closer and saw that no, it really WASN'T Luke Skywalker giving me the once-over. Close, but not quite. Alas.

'Luke' motioned to another figure, and I gaped once again. Clad in fatigue poncho, braids and other sundry items, the young woman was the quitting image of Princess Leia. Except prettier. Damn. I couldn't believe my eyes. This was TOO perfect.

[snipped]

"My name's Mark Fisher," the young man told me confidentially. "This is Melea Roden."

I raised one green eyebrow. 'Oola' looked skeptically at them. "C'mon. You're pulling my leg! Mark Fisher? Melea?"

"Nope. That's us."

"Right. Well, would YOU believe used to do I Luke?..."

They both eyed the obviously female body under my skimpy costume skeptically. I went on, playing it to the hilt;

"You'd be amazed at what an ace bandage can do!" One good believe-it-or-not deserves another, right?

We all started laughing. And such, my friends, is the role of costuming in history...

Well, it's been just over a year since that fateful afternoon, and we've shared a lot of good times, a lot of love, a lot of laughter.

Sample Art

1980s

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  from Imperium #3 (1983)

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  from Imperium #3 (1983)

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  from Far Realms #7 (1985)

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  back cover of On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah #1 -- "The artwork in the zine is wonderful. Melea, the back cover portrait of Luke and Leia is beautiful, and I love how the border is made up of lines that Luke or Leia said in the Sage." (1985)

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  from On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah #1 --"Melea, to me your work is the best of all the artwork in the zine (or any other zine!). The first piece in your portfolio is another example of something I'd like to frame. The lines and contrast of tones is excellent. (It's been a long time since college art classes so I'm not real sharp on my terms for doing a critique, but I know what I like!)." (1985)

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  One of Melea's advertisement parodies, each one starring Leia Organa and commentating on femininity, from On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah #1 (1985)

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  from Far Realms #8 (1986)

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  from Far Realms #8 (1986)

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  from The Wookiee Commode #3 (1986)

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  from A Tremor in the Force #3 -- "(Heck! I forgot to rave about Melea Fisher's artwork! What talent! I can't get enough of her illos! The likenesses to the actors are so accurate, but besides that, she captures mood in a way that reaches out and takes you by the throat... [shut up, Darth])." (1986)

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  from A Tremor in the Force #3 (1986)

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  from The Wookiee Commode #4 -- "Melea Fisher's art has always contained an exciting graphic quality, with her strong blacks, whites and grays..." (1987)

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  The Wookiee Commode #5 (1987)

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  back cover of On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah #4 (1989)

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  from On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah #4 (1989)

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  from On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah #4 (1989)

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  The Wookiee Commode #6 (1989)

1990s

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  from A Certain Point of View #5 -- "A lot of folks take one look at the Johanna Lindsey spoof on the cover of FACPOV #5 and say they don't want an "adult" zine. I have to convince them it's a satire of the romance novel covers (for those reading who haven't seen it, Melea Fisher did a fabulous spoof of the romance cover that was banned from a number of groceries stores throughout the country. Naturally, this doubled sales. On FACPOV#5, you see a side shot of a naked Han crushing Leia, in a flowing, off the shoulder ante-bellum style gown, against his chest. A strategically-placed bush covers a third of his tush. And Bespin floats in the background.) It was certainly an unexpected reaction. But I've had to make very clear that FACPOV is a PG-PG13 zine in many areas." (1990)

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  from A Certain Point of View #5 (1990)

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  from On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah #5 (1991)

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  from On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah #5 (1991)

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  from On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah #6 (1992)

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  from Pursuit of the Nashtah (1994)

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  back cover of On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah #8 (1995)

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  front cover of On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah #9 (1998)

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  backcover of On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah #9 (1998), also used as the front cover of Only Hope #4 (1997)