Plaid (Farm Boy)
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| Fan Art | |
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| Title: | Plaid |
| Artist: | Shelley Butler |
| Date(s): | 1994 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
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Plaid aka "Farm Boy" is an illo by Shelley Butler.
It was printed in First Time #38.
It accompanies a story of the same name by Kathy Stanis, Echoes of Forever.
Description
It portrays Spock from Star Trek: TOS.
Kirk in a plaid shirt wishing Spock was with him to roll in the hay. [1]
Kirk in a plaid shirt looking every bit the innocent farm boy from Iowa that he is.[2]
Title Change
Several years later, the author renamed the illo:
PLAID (a.k.a. FARM BOY) — retitled due to popular demand. Of course, my titles are world-renown for their sheer genius. I mean, how can you not like titles like “I Hold You In My Arms and Think Of You Constantly”? Or the ever expressive, “Portrait of Kirk”? [3]
Fan Comments
1994
I love this drawing for itself -- Kirk in jeans and plaid shirt in the basement--but also because, unbeknownst to either of us, as I began to write the story based on "City on the Edge of Forever," Shelley was doing this drawing. What a very appealing Kirk.... And I saw the original, of which the printed version is an enlargement. I really love it small-exquisite tiny detail. Most work of Shelley's I've seen is large, but you should see what she can do with small—also very fine work.[4]
The illustration used to accompany the above story (ed. Echoes of Forever) It's the best I have seen. Few artists have the ability to draw a realistic Kirk. If the features are correct they are often expressionless. Shelley has got round this problem in the most imaginative way. We only see a small part of his face as he is turned away. Yet this IS Kirk, Every line shouts the fact out loud. The plaid shirt emphasis it if the viewer should be in any doubt. The detail even to the jeans, is wonderful, and that gorgeous ass... exactly right. I feel as though I could put my hands out and grab him!!" [5]
The Kirk in plaid shirt in this zine is wonderful. Shelley has done a marvelous job not only on the shirt, but on Kirk's expression. I wish I had the companion piece. [6]
Finally, I'd be remiss not to mention Shelley Butler's heart - stoppingly gorgous drawning of Kirk in jeans and plaid shirt, which accompanies this story. A beautiful three - quarters view of Kirk's face with that trademark 300 Watt smile just beginning on his lips. My knees are weak. [7]
1999
"Kirk from City on the Edge of Forever done by Shelley Butler, all in gray, with Kirk in the flannel shirt and the levis (yum, such a nice tush for levis), standing in profile and leaning on the coal shovel, and gazing off to the left at someone... And I was thinking, wouldn't it be nice if Shelley created a companion piece of Spock, wearing his contraband civilian clothing from that era, perhaps with Spock also standing in profile and gazing off to the right...And perhaps he could be tucking in his shirt? (I always love that bit in the episode - it gives me a rise [so to speak] every time I see it.)" </ref> from a mailing list, quoted anonymously (Mar 7, 1999) </ref>
References
- ^ from The K/S Press #39
- ^ from The K/S Press #43
- ^ from The K/S Press #49
- ^ from Come Together #4
- ^ from Come Together #6
- ^ from Come Together #8
- ^ from Come Together #11