Gordon Carleton

Gordon Carleton is, among many things, a fanzine illustrator, writer, caricaturist, con organizer, and puppeteer. 
He published zines under the name T'Kuhtian Press and was one of the co-founders (along with Lori Chapek-Carleton whom he married in 1976) of MediaWest*Con. Gordon described his romance with Lori as one to the good things to come out of the disastrous Ourcon. "'Ourcon' means different things to different people. To some people it means "debt." To me it's the point where I really started caring for Lori Chapek. A few conventions later we were married. Naturally it was a Trekkish wedding." -- from Menagerie #11 (1976) .
Both Lori and Gordon were members and drivers of The Michigan State University Star Trek Club.
He has been a contributor to, among many others, Warped Space, Interphase, Menagerie, Pegasus, The Other Side of Paradise, The Star Trek Songbook and Beta Niobe Revisited.
Other fanac:
* the slideshows City on the Edge of Whatever Slide Show and Supraman
* the coloring book City on the Edge of Whatever Coloring Book
* the Landing Party Six concept, and his persona: Girc'N
* the "Star Trash" series ("The Man-Hatchery," "Journey to Babcon," and "Controllian Grid")
* posters: Transporter Malfunction of the Month and Readers of the Lost Joke
* con skit participant and creator: The Gumby Plays, many skits at MediaWest*Con
From the 1977 songbook for Solar Sailors: 
 File:Men11art4.jpg| portrait of Gordon and his wife, Lori, from Menagerie #11 
 Image:gordoncarleton.jpg| a caricature by Gordon Carleton of Gordon Carleton printed in Paladin #1 in 1980
File:menagerie11wedding-1.jpg|Gordon and Lori Carleton in 1976, one of the "Tablecloth Drawings" in Menagerie—this one by Phil Foglio, a fabulous line-up of BNFs
File:menagerie11wedding-2.jpg|Gordon and Lori Carleton in 1976, one of the "Tablecloth Drawings: The Last Supper" in Menagerie—this one by Carleton, a fabulous line-up of BNFs
==Frequent Con Attendee==
Gordon was a frequent convention organizer and/or attendee. 
Some of the many cons:
MediaWest*Con | Michigan MicroCon | OurCon | Pretty Good Convention | ReKWest*Con | SeKWester*Con | T'Con | Toronto Star Trek '76
==Essays & Meta==
*STAR TREK II: The Wrath of Paramount (1983)
* media no world con (1983)
* Who Knows What E-Mail Lurks In The Hearts Of Fen? (1994)
==A 1976 Fannish Autobiography==
Gordon Carleton and Lori Chapek-Carleton were the "Featured Fen" in Menagerie #11. From Featured Fen -- Both Carletons: Gordon Carleton:
==Publications==
A to Zine: The "How-To" of Fan Publishing | Abode of Strife | Alnitah Omnibus | The Bedside Grope and Queen Grope | The Best of... | Beta Niobe Revisited | City on the Edge of Whatever Coloring Book | The Compleat Dirtie Nellie | The Complete Trekfilker | Crystal Singer | Deep Grope | Diverse Dimensions | Dracula | Eel-Bird Banders' Bulletin | Enterprise Incidents | Facets | Fantasia | Fanzine Review 'Zine | Fesarius | Field Studies | For Your Affirmation... | Galactic Discourse | Gateway | Guardian | The Holmesian Federation | IDIC | Interphase | JediStarDarkFalconKnight | Jundland Wastes | King Grope | Kraith Collected | Laff Trek | The Landing Party 6 | Mahko Root | Masiform D | Matter/Antimatter | Menagerie | Moonbeam | Naked Times | Obsc'zine | The Other Side of Paradise | Paladin | Pegasus | The Pits | The Princess Tapes | Robin's Nest | Scuttlebutt | Sehlat's Roar | Showcase | Showcase Presents the Alternate Universes of Star Wars | Sing a Song of Trekkin' | Skywalker | Sol Plus | Solar Sailors | Star Daze | The Star Trek Songbook | Starsky & Hutch Concordance | Starsky & Hutch Episode & Character Guide | Starwings | Steele Files | Stour Treq: A Musical in Search of a Key | Strange Justice | Syndizine | Tauntaun Express | Timespan | TrexIndex | Twin Suns | Visitors: A Puppet Opera | Warped Space | Wide Open Spaces | The Wookiee Commode | The Wolves and the Lambs Affair & The Final Affair | Zebra Three | Zeta Minor
==A Tiny Sample of Carleton's Art==
===1974===
File:Warped1back.jpg|from Warped Space #1
File:Manhatchery.jpg|from issue #1/2, . I met a friendly , gopher]] and li
File:Warped1-2-9.jpg|from Warped Space #1/2
===1975===
File:Landingparty6.jpg|from Warped Space #8, the Landing Party 6
File:Warped10art2.jpg|from Warped Space #10
File:Warped13art1.jpg|from Warped Space #13 
===1976===
File:Warped16art2.jpg|from Warped Space #16
File:Warped16art3.jpg|from Warped Space #16 
File:Warped20art25.jpg|from Warped Space #20
File:Warped20art14.jpg|from Warped Space #20
File:Interphase3art7.jpg|from Interphase #3: "Fandom took an immediate fancy to the imbecilic Mr. Gumby and began incorporating his characteristics into various stories and illos, no matter how inappropriate. Artist Gordon Carleton once dressed the entire Mego crew of the Enterprise in gumby atire, which inspired the infamous final illo of my story "The Tinman" -- from Paula Block in Syndizine #3 (1982) 
File:Betanioberevisited-12.jpg|from Beta Niobe Revisited
File:Fanzinereviewzine.jpg|from Fanzine Review 'Zine #1
 
===1977===
File:Showcase4-12.jpg|from Showcase #4
File:Sehlat5art2.jpg|from Sehlat's Roar #5
File:Stsw.jpg|from Sehlat's Roar #5
File:Otherside2art11.jpg|from The Other Side of Paradise #2
File:Ob1art11.jpg|from Obsc'zine #1
File:Kraithcup2.JPG|from Eel-Bird Banders' Bulletin #2
File:Interphase4arttwo.jpg|from Interphase #4: "One of Gordon's wonderful comic-style episode spoofs, this one of "The Tholian Web." Lovely little throw-away lines, like Kirk's "I had a whole zine to myself..." from Karen Halliday's Zinedex 
File:Zebra 3 issue 1 interior by gordon carleton.jpeg|from Zebra Three #3
===1978===
File:Obs3back.jpg|from Obsc'zine #3 ("For Alice," which is likely Alice Jones)
File:Nakedtimes1-13.jpg|from Naked Times #1
File:Kinggrope-8.jpg|from King Grope
File:Whatevercoloringbook9.jpg|from City on the Edge of Whatever Coloring Book
File:Enterpriseincidents6art-11.jpg|Enterprise Incidents #6
File:Fantasia2art1.jpg|from Fantasia #2
File:Idic678-16.jpg|from IDIC #6]] 
File:Skywalker1-6.jpg|from Skywalker #1
File:Trex4-5-5.jpg|from TrexIndex #4/5
===1979===
File:Singasong.jpg|from Sing a Song of Trekkin'
File:Warped40art9.jpg|from Warped Space #40
File:Matter2art5.jpg|from Matter/Antimatter #2
File:Pegfour6.jpg|from Pegasus #4
File:Syndizine1-10.jpg|from Syndizine #1, "And Now For Something Completely Different..." foldout centerfold portraying John Cleese
File:Syndizine1-3.jpg|from Syndizine #1
===1980===
File:Pits1art2.jpg|from The Pits #1
File:Dracula.jpg|from Dracula
File:Facets3-1.jpg|from Facets #3
===1981===
File:Sonofsyn.jpg|from Syndizine #2
File:Peg5-9.jpg|from Pegasus #5
File:Gateway1art2.jpg|from Gateway #1
File:Queengrope.jpg|from The Bedside Grope and Queen Grope
File:Diversedimensions1-4.jpg|from Diverse Dimensions #1: "Hoth Surprise"
File:Warpedspace45-11.jpg|from Warped Space #45
File:Warped46art14.jpg|from Warped Space #46
File:Warped46art8.jpg|from Warped Space #46
===1982===
File:Twinsuns3-12.jpg|from Twin Suns #3
File:Twin Sunsback.jpg|from Twin Suns #3
File:Strangejustice-9.jpg|from Strange Justice, some Harlan Ellison adoration
File:Princesstapes2-16.jpg|from The Princess Tapes #2, commentary on The Other
File:Alnitahomnibus2.jpg|from Alnitah Omnibus #2
===1983===
File:Warped48art2.jpg|from Warped Space #48, E.T. gets his phone bill
File:Facets9-10-25.jpg|from Facets #9/10
===1984===
File:Commode1-1.jpg|from The Wookiee Commode #1
===1985===
File:Warped52-11.jpg|from Warped Space #52
File:Steeleart5.jpg|from Steele Files
File:Abode5-3.jpg|from Abode of Strife #5, one of the characters portrayed here is The Romulan Commander
 
===1991===
Image:readersofthelostjoke.jpg|"Readers of the Lost Joke"
File:Dirtynellie5.jpg|from The Compleat Dirtie Nellie
==References==
 
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Category:Fanwriters
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