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Michael Verina
| Fan | |
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| Name: | Michael Verina, Michael Verina III |
| Alias(es): | Mike Verina |
| Type: | fanartist |
| Fandoms: | Star Trek: TOS |
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Michael Verina is a fanartist who did drawings for many gen and K/S slash zines.
One of his primary technical methods was ink wash, one that was also used by Pat Stall.
Fan Comments
1978
...watch for more from a very talented artist named Michael Verina. [1]
1988
I am especially pleased to thank Mike Verina for the cover, and I'd like to use this opportunity lo encourage (beg, plead with, and otherwise whimper) for him to return to fandom in an active capacity once more. You're one of the very best, Mike! [2]
Zine Contributions
- Atavachron
- The Captain's Woman
- The Child Within Us
- Companion
- Contact
- Diverse Dimensions
- Dreadnought Explorations
- Dr. McCoy's Medical Log
- Enter-comm
- Enterprise Incidents
- Everything But the Kitchen Sink
- Final Frontier
- A Gift of Scotch
- Interstat
- Naked Times
- Nexus
- Nocturne
- Nome
- A Piece of the Action
- The Price and The Prize
- A Question of Balance
- Star Trek Portfolio Illustrations
- Starborne
- Stellar Gas
- Sun & Shadow
- The Turbolift Review
- Vault of Tomorrow
- Voices from the Stars
- The WKFS Journal
Sample Art
Unknown Date
unknown zine, unknown date
1978
from The Turbolift Review #2 -- "First of all, the cover of this "relationship" zine is gorgeous - a profile portrait of Kirk and Spock by Michael Verina." <ref> by Sandra Gent from Enterprise Incidents #6 (1978)
from The Turbolift Review #2
from Naked Times #1, for the story Echoes
from Naked Times #1, for the story Echoes, from Star Trek Portfolio Illustrations
from Naked Times #1, for the story Echoes, from Star Trek Portfolio Illustrations
from Nexus #1
example of an Andorian, possibly from Kirk and Spock Portfolio
![from Star Trek Portfolio Illustrations, reprinted in Starborne with captions, see that page -- "The cover is the first striking example of what lies inside. It is a fold-out picture of the 'big three' by Mike Verina." [3]](/w/images/thumb/2/22/Verinaportfolio2.jpg/180px-Verinaportfolio2.jpg)
from Star Trek Portfolio Illustrations, reprinted in Starborne with captions, see that page -- "The cover is the first striking example of what lies inside. It is a fold-out picture of the 'big three' by Mike Verina." [3]
from Star Trek Portfolio Illustrations, reprinted in Starborne with captions, see that page
from Companion #1
![from Star Trek Portfolio Illustrations, reprinted in Starborne with captions, see that page -- "The cover is the first striking example of what lies inside. It is a fold-out picture of the 'big three' by Mike Verina." [3]](/wiki/File:Verinaportfolio2.jpg)
1979
from Nome #1, also in Star Trek Portfolio Illustrations
from Nome #1, also in Star Trek Portfolio Illustrations
from Enterprise Incidents #7
from Enterprise Incidents #7
from Starborne
from Starborne
from Starborne, a rare humorous illo
from Starborne
from Starborne
from Starborne
from Starborne
from Starborne
from Starborne
from Contact #5/6, also in Star Trek Portfolio Illustrations
from Contact #5/6
from Contact #5/6
from Contact #5/6
from Naked Times #2, for the story, Decisions
from Naked Times #2, for the story, Decisions
![from Naked Times #3, for the story, for the Double Vision -- "Kirk menaced by a drag queen! Kirk with a Señor Wences mouth! McCoy with glowing femme-y eyes!" [4]](/w/images/thumb/2/27/Nakedtimes3-1.jpg/180px-Nakedtimes3-1.jpg)
from Naked Times #3, for the story, for the Double Vision -- "Kirk menaced by a drag queen! Kirk with a Señor Wences mouth! McCoy with glowing femme-y eyes!" [4]
from Naked Times #3, for the story, for the Double Vision
from Naked Times #3, for the story, The Lorath in which Spock "takes the veil" -- The Lorath which was subject of the article Sexuality in K/S Fiction (discussing homophobia in K/S fanfiction) from Not Tonight Spock! #10
![from Naked Times #3, for the story, for the Double Vision -- "Kirk menaced by a drag queen! Kirk with a Señor Wences mouth! McCoy with glowing femme-y eyes!" [4]](/wiki/File:Nakedtimes3-1.jpg)
1980
from Nome #15, for the story, "Where the Stallion Meets the Sun"
from Nome #15, for the story, "Where the Stallion Meets the Sun"
from Sun & Shadow, for the story, Point of Know Return
from Sun & Shadow
from Sun & Shadow
![from Stellar Gas #2 -- "For the color cover by Michael Verina one can only have praise. His Kirk illo is one of the finest he has ever produced; Spock is exotic and the unicorn is lovely. The artwork/photos alone make this zine worth the modest purchase price of $7.40." [5] "The colorful cover is from a painting by Michael Verina. The art of the cover is unique, but quite unlike that of most fanzines." [6] "Wrap around cover for Stellar Gas #2, art by Mike Verina. And this one isn’t just random “I wanted to paint Spock on a winged unicorn just because.” It actually illustrates the first story in the ‘zine, A Thousand Winged Unicorns by Della Van Hise. I’m not 100% sure what’s going on in the story, but I think this is Jim Kirk’s afterlife."[7] "This is so fucking majestic I love it." [8]](/w/images/thumb/b/b2/Stellargas2full.jpg/180px-Stellargas2full.jpg)
from Stellar Gas #2 -- "For the color cover by Michael Verina one can only have praise. His Kirk illo is one of the finest he has ever produced; Spock is exotic and the unicorn is lovely. The artwork/photos alone make this zine worth the modest purchase price of $7.40." [5]
"The colorful cover is from a painting by Michael Verina. The art of the cover is unique, but quite unlike that of most fanzines." [6]
"Wrap around cover for Stellar Gas #2, art by Mike Verina. And this one isn’t just random “I wanted to paint Spock on a winged unicorn just because.” It actually illustrates the first story in the ‘zine, A Thousand Winged Unicorns by Della Van Hise. I’m not 100% sure what’s going on in the story, but I think this is Jim Kirk’s afterlife."[7]
"This is so fucking majestic I love it." [8]
from Companion #2
from Companion #2
![from Stellar Gas #2 -- "For the color cover by Michael Verina one can only have praise. His Kirk illo is one of the finest he has ever produced; Spock is exotic and the unicorn is lovely. The artwork/photos alone make this zine worth the modest purchase price of $7.40." [5] "The colorful cover is from a painting by Michael Verina. The art of the cover is unique, but quite unlike that of most fanzines." [6] "Wrap around cover for Stellar Gas #2, art by Mike Verina. And this one isn’t just random “I wanted to paint Spock on a winged unicorn just because.” It actually illustrates the first story in the ‘zine, A Thousand Winged Unicorns by Della Van Hise. I’m not 100% sure what’s going on in the story, but I think this is Jim Kirk’s afterlife."[7] "This is so fucking majestic I love it." [8]](/wiki/File:Stellargas2full.jpg)
1981
![from The Price and The Prize, for the story, The Lorath -- "The Michael Verina work is simply not one of his best in terms of Kirk and Spock although the overall illustration is lovely." [9] "A perceptive fantasy in the style of Aubrey Beardsley." [10]](/w/images/thumb/b/b7/Priceart2.jpg/180px-Priceart2.jpg)
from The Price and The Prize, for the story, The Lorath -- "The Michael Verina work is simply not one of his best in terms of Kirk and Spock although the overall illustration is lovely." [9]
"A perceptive fantasy in the style of Aubrey Beardsley." [10]
from Nocturne
![from The Child Within Us, an example of the trope, De-Aging -- " I like the front cover which is an illustration of Spock, bare chested, walking through a jungle, with Kirk, as a wide-eyed child, round his neck." [11]](/w/images/thumb/8/81/Childrenwithinusfrontcover.jpg/180px-Childrenwithinusfrontcover.jpg)
from The Child Within Us, an example of the trope, De-Aging -- " I like the front cover which is an illustration of Spock, bare chested, walking through a jungle, with Kirk, as a wide-eyed child, round his neck." [11]
from Dreadnought Explorations #2
![from Final Frontier -- "The cover by Verina departs from his familiar pen and ink style to present finely shaded post-movie portraits of Kirk and Spock." [12]](/w/images/thumb/0/0e/Finalfrontier.jpg/180px-Finalfrontier.jpg)
from Final Frontier -- "The cover by Verina departs from his familiar pen and ink style to present finely shaded post-movie portraits of Kirk and Spock." [12]
from Interstat #47
from Nome #4
![from The Price and The Prize, for the story, The Lorath -- "The Michael Verina work is simply not one of his best in terms of Kirk and Spock although the overall illustration is lovely." [9] "A perceptive fantasy in the style of Aubrey Beardsley." [10]](/wiki/File:Priceart2.jpg)
![from The Child Within Us, an example of the trope, De-Aging -- " I like the front cover which is an illustration of Spock, bare chested, walking through a jungle, with Kirk, as a wide-eyed child, round his neck." [11]](/wiki/File:Childrenwithinusfrontcover.jpg)
![from Final Frontier -- "The cover by Verina departs from his familiar pen and ink style to present finely shaded post-movie portraits of Kirk and Spock." [12]](/wiki/File:Finalfrontier.jpg)
1982
from Interstat #52, reprinted from The WKFS Journal #2
from Nome #5, for the story, Windmills of the Mind
1983
1984
from Naked Times #4/5
![from Everything But the Kitchen Sink #1 -- the art is dated 1984, the zine is 1985, this was also used as the cover of Naked Times #20 in 1988, where a fan wrote: "NAKED TIMES 20 starts off with a slick cover of a very nice Michael Verina Spock. It's soft, sweet, and gentle - the type of art we need to see more of in fandom." [13]](/w/images/thumb/0/0c/Kitchen1-4.jpg/180px-Kitchen1-4.jpg)
from Everything But the Kitchen Sink #1 -- the art is dated 1984, the zine is 1985, this was also used as the cover of Naked Times #20 in 1988, where a fan wrote: "NAKED TIMES 20 starts off with a slick cover of a very nice Michael Verina Spock. It's soft, sweet, and gentle - the type of art we need to see more of in fandom." [13]
![from Everything But the Kitchen Sink #1 -- the art is dated 1984, the zine is 1985, this was also used as the cover of Naked Times #20 in 1988, where a fan wrote: "NAKED TIMES 20 starts off with a slick cover of a very nice Michael Verina Spock. It's soft, sweet, and gentle - the type of art we need to see more of in fandom." [13]](/wiki/File:Kitchen1-4.jpg)
1985
from Vault of Tomorrow #8
1988
from Naked Times #21
References
- ^ from Scuttlebutt #6, commenting on the zine, Turbolift Review #1
- ^ from Naked Times #20
- ^ from Wendy Rathbone from Enterprise Incidents #8
- ^ Look at His Butt! (2011)
- ^ from Datazine #12
- ^ from Datazine #13
- ^ bruinhilda.tumblr (2017)
- ^ from bobcatmoran.tumblr (2016)
- ^ from Datazine #12
- ^ from Datazine #12
- ^ from Communicator #2 (1982)
- ^ from Communicator #2
- ^ from from On the Double #10