Signe Landon

Fan
Name:	Signe Landon, Signe Danler
Alias(es):	Signe L.
Type:	fanartist, fanwriter, zine publisher, tribber
Fandoms:	Star Trek: TOS and Star Wars, Starsky & Hutch, Sherlock Holmes, Darkover, Wild Wild West
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	Contents 1 Some Controversy; 2 Interview; 3 Member; 4 Post Cards; 5 Fan Comments; 6 Zine Contributions 6.1 Star Trek; 6.2 Starsky & Hutch; 6.3 Star Wars; 6.4 Other; ; 7 Sample Art 7.1 1974; 7.2 1975; 7.3 1976; 7.4 1977; 7.5 1978; 7.6 1979; 7.7 1980; 7.8 1981; 7.9 1982; 7.10 1983; 7.11 1984; 7.12 1985; 7.13 1986; 7.14 1987; 7.15 1991; 7.16 1994; ; 8 References;

For other fans named Signe see the Signe disambiguation page.

a caricature by Gordon Carleton of Signe Landon, printed in Paladin #1 in 1980

Signe Landon was an early Star Trek: TOS and Star Wars fan writer and fan artist.

Landon got into fandom in 1972 "through a complicated series of events when she read an article in a newspaper mentioning odd things called 'fanzines.' She wrote the editor, was referred to Associated Press who contacted Gene Roddenberry, who then gave Landon Devra Langsam's address." ^[1]

She was also the editor of The Holmesian Federation, a Sherlock Holmes/Star Trek: TOS cross-over fanzine anthology. Her artwork was also used in Jacqueline Lichtenberg's original series Ambrov Zeor - the logo on the cover of each issue after issue #3 was Signe Landon's design which won the logo contest.^[2]

Signe's artwork also inspired others. One fan, Joan Verba, wrote:

One of the major reasons I bought the Gateway fanzine was its artwork. Signe Landon contributed a Kirk, Spock, and McCoy piece called "Strange Visitors." This was the first piece of artwork that inspired me to write a story — before this, all I could write in response to artwork was nonfiction analysis. ^[3] "^[4].

There was also a mischievous side:

At Equicon, Eileen Roy and Signe Landon got an idea for a parody of Kraith Collected, and with the help of other fans put together a small (13 paged) photocopied booklet called Krait-Spock's Anthropods. As a take-off on Kraith's numbering system (examples: IIa, IIIb), the number of this installment was the symbol for infinity. ^[5].

In 1981, Signe Landon was nominated for a FanQ award and submitted the following bio to The Annual Fan Q Awards Nominations Booklet:

"Signe Landon has been in fandom quite a while, since '73, she thinks. She started out in ST fandom, as an artist and film clip trader, and after a while dropped clip trading and took up zine editing, filksong writing, and occasional story-writing. In more recent years her interests, have expanded to include SW, S&H, Sherlock Holmes, Darkover, general media fandom, etc., and from the beginning, sf has been a major interest. In the last year or so she's been trying to refine her work, and has been concentrating more on sf and fantasy subjects. She's also taken up stained glass, which unfortunately can't be reproduced in zines. She's edited THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE 1 through 3 and THE HOLMESIAN FEDERATION 1 and 2, and has won numerous art show awards at assorted conventions. She is nominated for Favorite Single Artwork."

Some Controversy

In 1992, Landon and the pro author, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro tangled over the zine, Holmesian Federation #8. Yarbro's complained was that the story used Yarbro's character "Count Saint Germain" (who in turn is Yarbro's use of the real historical man named Count of St. Germain), after Yarbro had denied Signe Danler permission to use her character.

See A Matter Of Willful Copyright Infringement.

Interview

Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Signe Danler (2017)

Member

First Terran Enclave

Post Cards

Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards (1976)

Fan Comments

Zine Contributions

Star Trek

Starsky & Hutch

Star Wars

Other

Sample Art

1974

from Sol III #1
from Sol III #1
from [[Sol III] #1
from Sol III #2
from the 1974 issue of Chekov's Station

1975

from Leonard Nimoy Compendium #1, portrays the character El Lider in the Mission: Impossible episode "The Code"
from Interphase #2
from Interphase #2
from Interphase #2
from The Halkan Council #13
from The Halkan Council #17, depicts Zarabeth from the TOS episode "All Our Yesterdays"
inside page from The Clipper Trade Ship #6 (1975)

1976

from IDIC #4
from IDIC #4
from IDIC #4: "Signe Landon's illustrations for 'Once Bitten' and 'The Lesson' are some of her best work -- both original and effective. It was a relief to see a non-cute version of Sahaj, too." ^[6]
from IDIC #4
from The Halkan Council #20/21: "an absolutely dynamite scratchboard illo of the Mirror, Mirror Spock" ^[7]
from Grup #5
from Contact #2
from Off the Beaten Trek #2
from Off the Beaten Trek #2
Spock, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
Gem from "The Empath," one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
Leonard McCoy, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
Christine Chapel, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
Kor, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
Montgomery Scott, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
Uhura, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
James T. Kirk, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
Hikaru Sulu, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
Pavel Chekov, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
from Alpha Continuum #1
from Alpha Continuum #1
from The Other Side of Paradise #1
from The Other Side of Paradise #1
from The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
from The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
from The Climb
from Beta Niobe Revisited
from Beyond Orion #3
from Full Moon Rising
from Night of the Twin Moons
from the controversial story, The Maze by Joan Winston in Metamorphosis #2
from One Trek Mind #5
from One Trek Mind #5

1977

from Sehlat's Roar #3
from Sehlat's Roar #3
from Sehlat's Roar #4, from her portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "He's My Friend Too!"
from Sehlat's Roar #4, from her portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "The One That Got Away"
from Sehlat's Roar #4, from her portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "The Healer"
from Sehlat's Roar #4, from her portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "Drinking Buddies (Oh my aching head)"
from Sehlat's Roar #4, from her portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "When a Sehlat Wants You to Play -- You Play!"
from Sahaj Collected
from Probe #5 Revised
fold out from The Other Side of Paradise #2
from The Other Side of Paradise #2
from The Other Side of Paradise #2
from Alpha Continuum #2
from Contact #3
from Zebra Three #1 (1977)
from Fesarius #2

1978

from Starstone #2
from Off the Beaten Trek #3
from NTM Collected #1
from IDIC #6/7/8, for the story, Thou Among Women
from The Holmesian Federation #1
from The Holmesian Federation #1
from Mahko Root #2
from Mahko Root #2
cover of Skywalker #2 (1978)
cover of Zebra Three #3 (1978)
from Paradise (1978)
from Paradise (1978)
from Paradise (1978)
from The Other Side of Paradise #3
"Knight to King One" - original art (medium was pen and ink, and watercolor), it was printed in black and white in Galactic Discourse #2
from Nightvisions
from Nightvisions
from Obsc'zine #2
from Obsc'zine #3
from Guardian #1
a fold-out, from Thrust
from Thrust
from Thrust
from The Other Side of Paradise #3
from Time Warp #2
from Warped Space #35/35
from Warped Space #37
from Warped Space #37
from Warped Space #37

1979

dated 1979, from the 1982 zine, Paladin #2 (Albert Einstein)
dated 1979, from the 1982 zine, Paladin #2 (Beauty and the Beast)
dated 1979, from the 1982 zine, Paladin #2 ("Proud as a Peacock")
from Syndizine #1, for the Starsky & Hutch story, "The End"
from Syndizine #1, for the Starsky & Hutch story, "Talk Show"
from Syndizine #1, for the Star Wars/Man from UNCLE story "I Have a Pretty Good Imagination"
from Warped Space #40
from Warped Space #40
cover of Mission to Mrinn (1979)
cover of Nightvisions (1979)
interior art from Nightvisions (1979)
from Sins of the Father (1979)
the same art showing how different reproductions of art made a big difference in their presentations, reprinted in The Pits #1
from Sins of the Father (1979)
from The Pits #1, the image was used in 2014 as a banner for a The Daily Dot article: A guide to fanfiction for people who can't stop getting it wrong. ^[8]
from Sins of the Father (1979)
from The Pits #1
from Sins of the Father (1979)
from The Pits #1
interior art Zebra Three #4 (1979)
from The Other Side of Paradise #4
from The Other Side of Paradise #4
from The Other Side of Paradise #4

1980

from Casa Cabrillo, portrays Hutch and Vanessa from Still the Same -- "Signe Landon’s work for ‘Still the Same’ is competent – her art is never less, but in this case neither is it anything more." ^[9]
from Casa Cabrillo for "Still the Same"
from Casa Cabrillo for "Still the Same"
from Dracula
from Warped Space #43, some Battlestar Galactica (1978) art
from Warped Space #43
from Warped Space #43, some The Prisoner art
from Warped Space #43 (from the story, One Finger Symphony by Eileen Roy -- Christine Chapel feels useless, totally undesirable, and so afraid of failure. The pharmaceutical cabinet with its row of pills draws her near, but Leonard McCoy is there to offer his help.)
from Phoenix #1
from The Pits #2, a rare portrait of Huggy Bear
from The Pits #2, Hutch is undercover as a high school English teacher in the story, Prelude
from The Holmesian Federation #2
from The Holmesian Federation #2, Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes
from Precessional (Star Trek) (1980)
from Precessional (Star Trek) (1980)
from Precessional (Star Trek) (1980)
from Alpha Continuum #4 (1980)
from unknown zine, Kirk as Horatio Hornblower (this was reused as the cover of Council Log #5 in 1985, and titled "Justify Thyself, Time Lord")
original art that was used in Gateway #1
from Paladin #1, Illya Kuryakin slays a dragon
from Paladin #1, some Wild Wild West art
from Paladin #1, a M*A*S*H*/Man from U.N.C.L.E. crossover
from The Other Side of Paradise #7 (art is dated 1980, the zine was 1987)

1981

from Syndizine #2, for Time After Time (movie)

1982

from Paladin #2, Sherlock Holmes
from Starstone #5, illustrating "The Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda"
from Phoenix #2 (reprinted in 1985 as a fold-out in Xenozine #2)
form The Princess Tapes
cover of Organia (1982)
from The Holmesian Federation #3
from The Holmesian Federation #3
from The Holmesian Federation #3
from Straight Trek
from Straight Trek

1983

from Rerun #1 - in his book Textual Poachers, Henry Jenkins included an image of this cover and described it as "a multi-media zine [that] borrows iconography from a number of different series, including the Doctor's scarf, Barnabas Collins' cane and ring, John Steed's bowler, and Jim Kirk's pants." Also included in this illo is Ralph Hinkley's suit and David Starsky's tennis shoe.
from Insatiable Curiosity #7
front cover of issue #3, Signe Landon. It was nominated for a Fan Q. According to A 2007 Interview with Georgia Barnes, this cover inspired her story Myrddin. One art commentator noted this about the cover: "This is wonderful! I love the use of the Command Gold & Science Division Blue incorporated into the illo. Symbolic, too, with the rising Sun.... and they are knights... [Signe is a] very talented artist." ^[10]
from Galactic Discourse #4
cover of A Plague in Time (1983)
inside art for Broken Images (1983)
cover of Rerun #1, printed in [Textual Poachers]] (1983)
cover of Galactic Discourse #4 (1983)
back cover of The Other Side of Paradise #6
from Nome #7

1984

from A Study in Steele, from Remington Steele
from A Study in Steele, from Remington Steele
from The Holmesian Federation #5

1985

from The Holmesian Federation #6
from The Holmesian Federation #6, portrays Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who
from The Holmesian Federation #6, portrays Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who

1986

three Spocks, one from the series, the others from the films, part of the wraparound cover of Masiform D #15
three Spocks, one from the series, the others from the films, part of the wraparound cover of Masiform D #15

1987

cover of Galactic Discourse #5 (1987)
from Galactic Discourse #5

1991

from the very controversial The Holmesian Federation #8

1994

cover of Behind the Lines v.3 no.4 (1994)

References

^ from Who's Who in Star Trek Fandom
^ The Starred Cross: A Peace Symbol (accessed 23 Jan 2010)
^ This story, "Footprints in the Sand," was later published in Masiform D.
^ Boldly Writing, pg. 57
^ Boldly Writing, pg. 34
^ from The Halkan Council #23
^ from Spectrum #27
^ Gavia Baker-Whitelaw and Aja Romano. A guide to fanfiction for people who can't stop getting it wrong. (Accessed 28 June 2014)
^ from S and H #16
^ ShatnoyKisses' March 25, 2013 post to the K/S Zine Friends Facebook group, quoted with permission.

[1] rom Who's Who in Star Trek Fandom

[2] The Starred Cross: A Peace Symbol (accessed 23 Jan 2010)

[3] This story, "Footprints in the Sand," was later published in Masiform D.

[4] Boldly Writing, pg. 57

[5] Boldly Writing, pg. 34

[6] rom The Halkan Council #23

[7] rom Spectrum #27

[8] Gavia Baker-Whitelaw and Aja Romano. A guide to fanfiction for people who can't stop getting it wrong. (Accessed 28 June 2014)

[9] rom S and H #16

[10] ShatnoyKisses' March 25, 2013 post to the K/S Zine Friends Facebook group, quoted with permission.

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Fan
Name:	Signe Landon, Signe Danler
Alias(es):	Signe L.
Type:	fanartist, fanwriter, zine publisher, tribber
Fandoms:	Star Trek: TOS and Star Wars, Starsky & Hutch, Sherlock Holmes, Darkover, Wild Wild West
Communities:
Other:
URL:
Click here for related articles on Fanlore.
Contents 1 Some Controversy 2 Interview 3 Member 4 Post Cards 5 Fan Comments 6 Zine Contributions 6.1 Star Trek 6.2 Starsky & Hutch 6.3 Star Wars 6.4 Other 7 Sample Art 7.1 1974 7.2 1975 7.3 1976 7.4 1977 7.5 1978 7.6 1979 7.7 1980 7.8 1981 7.9 1982 7.10 1983 7.11 1984 7.12 1985 7.13 1986 7.14 1987 7.15 1991 7.16 1994 8 References