Zawiah
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| Name: | Zawiah |
| Alias(es): | JQ, Zawiah Z |
| Type: | Fan Artist, Fan Writer, Filker |
| Fandoms: | Star Wars |
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| URL: | Artist Website (archived version); WayBack machine version of Artist Website - no art archived; some art archived here |
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Zawiah is a fan artist whose Star Wars and Harrison Ford fan art has won numerous awards.
Samples of Zawiah's fan art has been included on Fanlore with her permission.
From her web gallery:
I love to draw and I love to read comics ever since I can remember. Then I met Harrison Ford. Onscreen, that is. It took 7 more years for the crush to settle in, and it never got out. I thought his character Indy Jones was a marvellous subject matter to practise drawing on. Still haven't stopped practising tho. It spreaded out to that other 'brother' Han Solo, and then to John Book, and Rick Deckard and whoever else that looks like Harrison...
In addition to illustrating fanzines and fan comics, Zawiah has also written fan fiction that can be found archived here. Some of her art can also be found illustrating stories in the charity fanzine series The Less Than Legendary Journeys here. The majority of her art was lost when FortuneCity shut down abruptly in 2012, although some has been captured here by the WayBack Machine. A single screencap of a Google image search of her site is below.
Awards
Her artwork in the zine Bloodstripe won her both a FanQ and a Star aWard. Some of her comics can also be found archived on her earlier fansite here
Filk
Zawiah wrote a filk song, One Fine Day Before Raya which is to be sung to the tune of 'Satu Hari Di Hari Raya' by M. Nasir. It describes the connection she felt with the character of Han Solo when she saw Star Wars for the first time as a child.
- One fine day before Raya
- Han Solo came over to my house
- Chewbacca came along without a pause
- They parked the Falcon way over there
- Then said they wanna help me prepare
- One fine day before Raya
- Han Solo came over and said to me
- He wanted to help make the cookies,
- lemang, ketupats and rendang, ay!
- I couldn't really believe my eyes!
- One fine day before Raya
- Han helped me weaving ketupat
- But Chewie's hands got tied up
- So strong, eh what?
- One fine day before Raya
- Han helped me cook the lemang
- From morning until sundown
- I was startled!
- Could that lemang really go with the rendang
- One fine day before Raya
- Han Solo came over to help me
- In the kitchen to bake cookies
- But I said, "No thanks, I'll manage,
- You please hang up the curtains instead!"
- One fine day before Raya....
Gallery
illustration for Delusions of Grandeur, story "Means To An End"
back cover of I Don't Care What You Smell 6
Bloodstripe 3 interior art, "Luke telling his sister"
back cover of Bloodstripe 2
Bloodstripe 1, "Be Careful"
Delusions of Grandeur, "Maul and Vader'
"Dinner With Vader" Comic Strip
interior art for Resurrection
interior art for Resurrection
screencap of the final Google image search of Zawiah's FortuneCity website shortly after it went offline. Click twice for largest image
