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
- Thoughts Contingent on a Blythe Spirit (Guns and Red Roses #3), Thoughts Contingent on the Wrong Box (Eroica/Lupin III)
- other Lupin III "Thoughts Contingent" stories (Anime House Presents)
- Babycakes (Lupin III) (Anime House Presents)
- Turn of a Friendly Card (Lupin III) (Anime House Presents)
- Voltron County (Anime House Presents)
- Owner of the Lonely Heart (Lupin III) (Anime House Presents)
- Foreign Affair (Lupin III) (Anime House Presents)
- Grand Designs (Lupin III) (Anime House Presents)
- The Grey Lord Series (Star Wars) (The Dark Lord)
- Uhura on Her Own Time (Diverse Dimensions #1) (Star Trek)
- For Yoda Are You Looking? (Diverse Dimensions #1) (Star Wars)
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
1975
front cover of Menagerie Issue 7/8 (1975)
art for The Logical Conclusion by Paula Smith; interior art by V.M. Wyman for Menagerie Issue 7/8 (1975)
art for The Logical Conclusion by Paula Smith; for Menagerie Issue 7/8 (1975)
art for The Logical Conclusion by Paula Smith; for Menagerie Issue 7/8 (1975)
art for The Logical Conclusion by Paula Smith; for Menagerie Issue 7/8 (1975)
art for The Logical Conclusion by Paula Smith; for Menagerie Issue 7/8 (1975)
art for The Logical Conclusion by Paula Smith; for Menagerie Issue 7/8 (1975)
art for The Logical Conclusion by Paula Smith; for Menagerie Issue 7/8 (1975)
art for The Logical Conclusion by Paula Smith; for Menagerie Issue 7/8 (1975)
from The HOPSFA Hymnal
1976
front cover of Warped Space Issue 19 (1976)
back cover of Warped Space Issue 19 (1976)
back cover of Warped Space Issue 21 (1976)
from Stardate #10
1977
from Star Trek Nuts & Bolts #14/15
from Star Trek Nuts & Bolts #14/15
from Star Trek Nuts & Bolts #14/15
from Star Trek Nuts & Bolts #14/15
back cover of Sehlat's Roar #5 (1977)
interior art for Sehlat's Roar #5 (1977)
interior art for Sehlat's Roar #5 (1977)
interior art for Warped Space #23 (1977)
interior art for The Other Side of Paradise #2 (1977)
interior art for The Other Side of Paradise #2
interior art for The Other Side of Paradise #2
interior art for The Other Side of Paradise #2
interior art for The Other Side of Paradise #2
interior art for The Other Side of Paradise #2
interior art for The Other Side of Paradise #2
from Obsc'zine #2
1978
from Rec-Room Rhymes #1
from Falcon's Lair
from Falcon's Lair
from Falcon's Lair
from Falcon's Lair
from The Other Side of Paradise #3 (Star Trek: TOS)
from Rising Star
from Rising Star
from Rising Star
from Holmesian Federation #1
from Holmesian Federation #1
art for "The Girl Who Controlled Gene Kelly's Feet" by Paula Block; interior art for Menagerie Issue 14 (1978)
1979
from Masiform D #8
1980
flyer for Sing a Song of Trekkin'
front cover of Menagerie Issue 16 (1980)
from Obsc'zine #4, foldout, inspired by the Samurai Cat artwork of Mark Rogers
1982
from Diverse Dimensions #1, "For Yoda Are You Looking?"
from Diverse Dimensions #1, "Uhura on Her Own Time"
front cover of The Dark Lord (1982)
illustration for a short story by Ed Bernstein, Fesarius issue #5 (1982)
1984
1989
from Guns and Red Roses #1, V.M. Wyman
from Guns and Red Roses #1, V.M. Wyman
1991
from Black Diamond (Voltron)
from Guns and Red Roses #2, for Thoughts Contingent on a Blythe Spirit
from Guns and Red Roses #2, for Thoughts Contingent on a Blythe Spirit
References
- ^ oldschoolfrp
- ^ Welcome to Haven, The Free City
- ^ Early fandom artist Vicky Wyman passes away; archive link by dronon on Sun 5 Aug 2018, edited as of Sat 2 Oct 2021
- ^ on The Logical Conclusion by Paula Smith, from Menagerie Issue 7/8 (1975), from The Halkan Council #13 (December 1975)
- ^ on "Song of Laughter, Song of Tears" by Kelly Hill, from Warped Space #23 (1977), from Spectrum #32 (May 1977)
- ^ on The Other Side of Paradise Issue 2 (1977), from Implosion #5 (April 1977)
- ^ on The Dark Lord (1982), from Jundland Wastes #11 (September 1982)
- ^ from Jundland Wastes #11
- ^ from a fan in "Warped Space" #35/36