V.M. Wyman

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Name: V.M. Wyman
Alias(es): Vicki Wyman, Victoria Margaret Wyman
Type: fan artist, fan writer
Fandoms: Star Trek: TOS, Star Wars, Eroica, Fantasy, Furry, RPGs, Lupin III, Voltron
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URL: Some of V.M. Wyman's fanworks were online here (now offline).
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V.M. Wyman was a fan artist and fan writer active in the 1970s and 1980s.

She was known for illustrating many popular Star Trek: TOS zines, perhaps most notably Issue 7/8 of Menagerie, for which she also contributed extensive art illustrating Paula Smith's controversial story The Logical Conclusion.

Wyman was very active in the furry and comics fandom.

Wyman was an illustrator for "Web of Darkness," a 1983 novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley as well as other professional fantasy novels and role-playing books. [1] [2]

She died on August 3, 2018. [3]

Fan Comments

The illustrations, all by V.M. Wyman, are plentiful and very attractive, and enhance the story immensely. [4]

The story would not be so nearly as captivating if it not for the superb illos accompanying it done by Wyman. [5]

[T]he always-a-pleasure Vicki Wyman drawings... [6]

The illos [...] most especially by Vicki Wyman, are nothing less than outstanding, and the excellent reproduction does them full justice. Wyman's likenesses of the main STAR WARS characters are more interpretive than literal, and if you are looking for portraits of Han, Luke, and Leia, you won't find them here. But her lovely style with its emotional (though not technical) echoes of Rackham, an enchanting and fantastic faerie charm. In particular, her illos of Vader, with their swirling Art Nouveau drapery and backgrounds, turn him into the magical Dark Prince of a nineteenth century fairy tale. When I got to them, the stories proved somewhat less successful than the art. [7]

It is not often that art alone can carry a zine, but when a friend of mine loaned me a copy of THE DARK LORD, I whipped out my checkbook and sent off for my own copy before even reading the stories. The illos, by Nancy Stasulis, Stefanie Hawks, and most especially by Vicki Wyman, are nothing less than outstanding, and the excellent reproduction does them full justice. Wyman's likenesses of the main STAR WARS characters are more interpretive than literal, and if you are looking for portraits of Han, Luke, and Leia, you won't find them here. But her lovely style with its emotional (though not technical) echoes of Rackham, an enchanting and fantastic faerie charm. In particular, her illos of Vader, with their swirling Art Nouveau drapery and backgrounds, turn him into the magical Dark Prince of a nineteenth century fairy tale.

[...]

...the plot of V.M. Wyman's "Grey Lord" series is less convincing. If you had no problem with the angels in the lurex caftans who rescued Starbuck in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, you may well have no trouble with Han falling into an interdimensional limbo between hyper and real space, where he is rescued from carbon-freeze by Anubis and an intelligent star, who then goes to bed with him. Oh well; we've had Jungian archetypes, Celtic Sidhe; and Arthurian folk heroes in SWARS fanfiction--why not an Egyptian god? Once this initial difficulty is overcome, the reader will notice the story's unusual literature, enjoyable style and general readability. For the most part, the characters are solid, and the movie characters sound, not only like themselves, but like realistic, adult human beings as well. I will certainly be looking forward to more episodes in this series. [8]

And how do V.M. Wyman's people ever eat enough to stay alive with such tiny jaws? [9]

Fanworks

Fanfiction

Zines

And Now a Word From Our Sponsor | Anime House Presents | Black Diamond | The Dark Lord | Diverse Dimensions | Falcon's Lair | Fesarius | The Holmesian Federation | The HOPSFA Hymnal | Klingon Empire Appointment Calendar | Masiform D | Menagerie | Obsc'zine | The Other Side of Paradise | Paper Phantasies | Paradise | Rec-Room Rhymes | Rising Star | Sehlat's Roar | Sing a Song of Trekkin' | Stardate | Star Trek Nuts & Bolts | The Starwitch | Sub-Space | Thoughts Contingent on the Wrong Box | Time Warp | Turnabout | Warped Space | When You Wish Upon a Star

Sample Gallery

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1991

References

  1. ^ oldschoolfrp
  2. ^ Welcome to Haven, The Free City
  3. ^ Early fandom artist Vicky Wyman passes away; archive link by dronon on Sun 5 Aug 2018, edited as of Sat 2 Oct 2021
  4. ^ on The Logical Conclusion by Paula Smith, from Menagerie Issue 7/8 (1975), from The Halkan Council #13 (December 1975)
  5. ^ on "Song of Laughter, Song of Tears" by Kelly Hill, from Warped Space #23 (1977), from Spectrum #32 (May 1977)
  6. ^ on The Other Side of Paradise Issue 2 (1977), from Implosion #5 (April 1977)
  7. ^ on The Dark Lord (1982), from Jundland Wastes #11 (September 1982)
  8. ^ from Jundland Wastes #11
  9. ^ from a fan in "Warped Space" #35/36
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