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Melanie Guttierrez
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| Name: | Melanie Guttierrez |
| Alias(es): | Mesarthim |
| Type: | fan artist, zine ed, fanwriter |
| Fandoms: | Star Wars |
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Melanie Guttierrez was a Star Wars fan artist in the mid 1990s. Her work appeared in several fanzines.
Along with Lorrie Cherry, she was the publisher of Another Sky. She also started AnotherSky.Net, where she uploaded digital copies of the Another Sky zines and offered to email scanned copies of other print fanzines. This raised concerns over the right to archive and share zine stories, and prompted the Open Letter About AnotherSky.Net Fanfiction Piracy.
Melanie and Lorrie Cherry also co-wrote Star Wars Print Fandom: An Expose, an essay about fandom and profit.
In 1990, in response to Ethics and Etiquette: A Proposal for the Buying and Selling of Fanzines, Melanie wrote: "I, Melanie Guttierrez, a/k/a Mesarthim, hereby grant all fans the permission to copy, for personal enjoyment and/or trade (not for resale) any of my work donated to Star Wars Fandom. "If you care, share. [1]
Awards
Melanie won three STAR aWARdS:
- 1991 SW ILLUSTRATION ARTIST
- 1997 SW ZINE Hon Men: Another Sky #10 (with Lorrie Cherry)
- 1997 SW COVER ARTIST Hon Men: front cover of Another Sky #9
Sample Fanart
Front cover of A Tremor in the Force #6
Front cover of Another Sky #2
Front cover of Another Sky #3
Interior art from Another Sky #3
Interior art from Another Sky #4
Front cover of Another Sky #9
References
- ^ from Southern Enclave #25