Tim Courtney
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| Name: | Tim Courtney |
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| Type: | artist |
| Fandoms: | Star Trek: TOS |
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Tim Courtney was a Star Trek fan and fan artist who illustrated early issues of T-Negative along with an ad for a commercial Star Trek tie-in novel Spock Lives!.
She died of cancer on January 16, 1970.
Some Short Bios
1970:
Tim Courtney was a warm-hearted and loving woman, who expressed those qualities both in her work (special-duty nursing) and in her life.
Soon after Star Trek came on the air, she became a fan of the show - and discovered that nearly all the children in the hospitals she visited were also fans of the show, and could be made to feel more at ease with the (to them) new and frighten- frightening environment of the hospital if they thought of it as Dr. McCoy's sick bay. To her ill, blind, or deaf children, she was their own private "Nurse Chapel," bringing Star Trek pictures, stories, and games, and the knowledge that someone cared about them. [1]
1972:
Tim's father wanted a boy, so he named his only child—a girl— Timothy! A person of fantastic energy and verve, Tim went from top honors in college to modeling, world travel and nursing. Completing her nurse's training, Tim went to Africa and started a clinic there. She returned to the U.S. in time to see Star Trek on TV, and fell in love with Mr. Spock. During the long nights on Special Duty, Tim learned to draw, and naturally drew more pictures of Mr. Spock than anything else. Soon she was amusing young patients, who clamored for her artwork. Friends encouraged her to send art to fanzines, also. Then tragedy struck; Tim died of cancer in early 1970. She left these Spock illustrations as her legacy to Star Trek fandom. [2]
Sample Art
Much of Tim's art was used in T-Negative; for the first two years while she was alive, and then after her death.
After her passing, Tim's art was also later incorporated into other zines.
Some of those were later issues of T-Negative, the T-Negative Special Art Portfolio, Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock 1972 Calendar, and Kraith Collected.
front cover of T-Negative #1
front "cover" of the special art portfolio, undated. It was also the cover for the first issue of T-Negative
front cover of T-Negative #2
back cover of T-Negative #4
inside art from T-Negative #13
inside art from Kraith Collected #4
