Signe Landon

For other fans named Signe see the Signe disambiguation page.
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." from Who's Who in Star Trek Fandom 
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. The Starred Cross: A Peace Symbol (accessed 23 Jan 2010)
 
Signe's artwork also inspired others. One fan, Joan Verba, wrote: 
There was also a mischievous side: 
In 1981, Signe Landon was nominated for a FanQ award and submitted the following bio to The Annual Fan Q Awards Nominations Booklet: 
==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 ===
 
* 1001 Trek Tales
* Alpha Continuum
* Behind the Lines 
* Beta Niobe Revisited
* Beyond Orion
* Broken Images
* The Cage
* Chekov's Station
* The Climb
* Clipper Trade Ship
* Computer Playback
* The Complete Trekfilker
* Contact
* The Council Log
* Fantasia
* Fesarius
* Full Moon Rising
* Galactic Discourse
* Gateway
* Guardian
* Grup
* The Halkan Council
* Holmesian Federation
* IDIC
* Insatiable Curiosity
* Interphase
* Leonard Nimoy Association of Fans Yearbook
* Masiform D
* Metamorphosis
* Mission to Mrinn 
* NTM Collected
* The Night of the Twin Moons
* Nightvisions
* Nome
* Obsc'zine 
* Off the Beaten Trek
* One Trek Mind
* The Other Side of Paradise
* Paladin
* The Paladins Affair
* Precessional
* Probe
* Rigel
* Sahaj Collected
*Sehlat's Roar
* The Sensuous Vulcan
* Showcase
* Side-Trekked
* Sol III
* Spock's Arthropods 
* Stardate: Unknown 
* Straight Trek
* Thrust
* Time Warp
* TrexIndex
* Universe Beyond
* Voyage II
 
===Starsky & Hutch===
 
* Casa Cabrillo
* Mahko Root
* The Pits
* Sins of the Father
* S and H
* Zebra Three
 
===Star Wars===
 
* Green Harvest
* Pegasus
* Phoenix
* The Princess Tapes
* Sanctuary
* Skywalker
* Warped Space
* Xenozine
 
===Other===
 
* Ambrov Zeor!
* The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
* Dracula
 
* Organia
* Rerun
* Spies in the Old West
* Starstone
* A Study in Steele
* Syndizine
* The Time Rider
* Sol Plus
* The Westerfilk Collection
* Wide Open Spaces
==Sample Art==
===1974===
Image:Sol1front.jpg|from Sol III #1 
File:Soliiiart3.jpg|from Sol III #1 
Image:signesol3-1.jpg|from Sol III #1
Image:Sol2front.jpg|from Sol III #2 
File:Chekovsstation1974.jpg|from the 1974 issue of Chekov's Station
===1975===
Image:leonardcompendium1-11.jpg|from Leonard Nimoy Compendium #1, portrays the character El Lider in the Mission: Impossible episode "The Code" 
File:Interphase2art5.jpg|from Interphase #2
File:Interphase2-10.jpg|from Interphase #2
File:Interphase2-18.jpg|from Interphase #2
File:Halkan13.jpg|from The Halkan Council #13
File:Halkan17.jpg|from The Halkan Council #17, depicts Zarabeth from the TOS episode "All Our Yesterdays"
File:Clipper6-1.jpg|inside page from The Clipper Trade Ship #6 (1975)
===1976===
File:Idic4.jpg|from IDIC #4
File:Idic4-6.jpg|from IDIC #4
File:Idic4-11.jpg|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." from The Halkan Council #23 
File:Idic4-7.jpg|from IDIC #4
File:Halkan20-21.jpg|from The Halkan Council #20/21: "an absolutely dynamite scratchboard illo of the Mirror, Mirror Spock" from Spectrum #27 
Image:grupsigne.jpg|from Grup #5
File:Contact2art7.jpg|from Contact #2
File:Offthebeat2-6.jpg|from Off the Beaten Trek #2
File:Offthebeat2-8.jpg|from Off the Beaten Trek #2
File:Landon12.jpg|Spock, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
File:Landon17.jpg|Gem from "The Empath," one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
File:Landon10.jpg|Leonard McCoy, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
File:Landoncard-10.jpg|Christine Chapel, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
File:Landon1.jpg|Kor, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
File:Landoncard-1.jpg|Montgomery Scott, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
File:Landon11.jpg|Uhura, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
File:Landon14.jpg|James T. Kirk, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
File:Landoncard-2.jpg|Hikaru Sulu, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards
File:Landoncard-3.jpg|Pavel Chekov, one of Signe Landon Star Trek Postcards 
File:Alphacont1-1.jpg|from Alpha Continuum #1
File:Alphacont1-6.jpg|from Alpha Continuum #1
File:Otherside1-5.jpg|from The Other Side of Paradise #1
File:Otherside1-9.jpg|from The Other Side of Paradise #1
Image:First_Time_Ever.jpg|from The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Image:firsttimeart.jpg|from The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
File:Climb.jpg|from The Climb
[[File:Betarevisit2.jpg|from Beta Niobe Revisited
File:Betanioberevisited-7.jpg|from Beta Niobe Revisited
File:Beyondorionart3.jpg|from Beyond Orion #3
File:Full moon 5 interior art.jpg|from Full Moon Rising
File:Twinmoons4.jpg|from Night of the Twin Moons
File:Metamor2-2.jpg|from the controversial story, The Maze by Joan Winston in Metamorphosis #2
File:Onetrekmind5art3.jpg|from One Trek Mind #5
File:Onetrekmind5art6.jpg|from One Trek Mind #5
===1977===
File:Sehlat3-5.jpg|from Sehlat's Roar #3
File:Sehlat3-6.jpg|from Sehlat's Roar #3
File:sehlatsroar4-5.jpg| from Sehlat's Roar #4, from her portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "He's My Friend Too!"
File:sehlatsroar4-6.jpg| from Sehlat's Roar #4, from her portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "The One That Got Away"
File:sehlatsroar4-7.jpg| from Sehlat's Roar #4, from her portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "The Healer"
File:sehlatsroar4-8.jpg| from Sehlat's Roar #4, from her portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "Drinking Buddies (Oh my aching head)"
File:sehlatsroar4-9.jpg| from Sehlat's Roar #4, from her portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "When a Sehlat Wants You to Play -- You Play!"
File:Sahajcoll-8.jpg|from Sahaj Collected
File:Probe5revisedart5.jpg|from Probe #5 Revised
File:Otherside2art15.jpg|fold out from The Other Side of Paradise #2
File:Otherside2art17.jpg|from The Other Side of Paradise #2
File:Otherside2art18.jpg|from The Other Side of Paradise #2
File:Alphacont2-2.jpg|from Alpha Continuum #2
File:Contact3art12.jpg|from Contact #3
Image:Zebra3-5.jpg| from Zebra Three #1 (1977)
File:Fes1.jpg |from Fesarius #2
===1978===
File:Starstone2inside4.jpg |from Starstone #2
File:Offthebeaten3art5.jpg|from Off the Beaten Trek #3
File:Ntm1art2.jpg| from NTM Collected #1
File:Idic678-4.jpg|from IDIC #6/7/8, for the story, Thou Among Women
File:Holms1art2.jpg|from The Holmesian Federation #1
File:Holms1art6.jpg|from The Holmesian Federation #1
File:Mahko root2.jpg|from Mahko Root #2
File:Mahko2art4.jpg|from Mahko Root #2
 
Image:Skywalker2.jpg|cover of Skywalker #2 (1978)
Image:Zebra3.jpg|cover of Zebra Three #3 (1978)
Image:paradiseinsideart3.jpg|from Paradise (1978)
Image:paradiseinsideart4.jpg|from Paradise (1978)
Image:paradiseinsideart5.jpg|from Paradise (1978)
Image:Other side 3 interior signe landon.jpeg|from The Other Side of Paradise #3 
 
Image:knighttokingone.jpg|"Knight to King One" - original art (medium was pen and ink, and watercolor), it was printed in black and white in Galactic Discourse #2 
File:Nightvisionsart2.jpg |from Nightvisions
File:Nightvisionsart5.jpg|from Nightvisions
File:Ob2-8.jpg|from Obsc'zine #2
File:St other 2 interior.jpg|from Obsc'zine #3
File:Guardian 01 cover.jpg|from Guardian #1
File:Thrust-10.jpg|a fold-out, from Thrust
File:Thrust-14.jpg|from Thrust
File:Thrust-13.jpg|from Thrust
File:Other side 3 interior signe landon.jpg|from The Other Side of Paradise #3
File:Timewarp2-7.jpg|from Time Warp #2
File:Warped3435-4.jpg|from Warped Space #35/35
File:Warped37art11.jpg|from Warped Space #37
File:Warped37art15.jpg|from Warped Space #37
File:Warped37art13.jpg|from Warped Space #37
===1979===
File:Paladin2-1.jpg|dated 1979, from the 1982 zine, Paladin #2 (Albert Einstein)
File:Paladin2-6.jpg|dated 1979, from the 1982 zine, Paladin #2 (Beauty and the Beast)
File:Paladin2-16.jpg|dated 1979, from the 1982 zine, Paladin #2 ("Proud as a Peacock")
File:Syndizine1-1.jpg|from Syndizine #1, for the Starsky & Hutch story, "The End"
File:Syndizine1-8.jpg||from Syndizine #1, for the Starsky & Hutch story, "Talk Show"
File:Syndizine1-7.jpg|from Syndizine #1, for the Star Wars/Man from UNCLE story "I Have a Pretty Good Imagination" 
File:Warped40art3.jpg|from Warped Space #40
File:Warped40art11.jpg|from Warped Space #40
Image:Missiontom.jpg|cover of Mission to Mrinn (1979)
Image:Nightvisions1.jpg|cover of Nightvisions (1979)
Image:Nightvisions_Landon.jpg|interior art from Nightvisions (1979)
Image:Sins signe landontwo.jpg|from Sins of the Father (1979)
Image:pits1art6.jpg|the same art showing how different reproductions of art made a big difference in their presentations, reprinted in The Pits #1
Image:Sins signe landonone.jpg|from Sins of the Father (1979)
Image:pits1art5.jpg|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. Gavia Baker-Whitelaw and Aja Romano. A guide to fanfiction for people who can't stop getting it wrong. (Accessed 28 June 2014)
Image:Sins signe landonthree.jpg|from Sins of the Father (1979)
 
Image:pits1art7.jpg|from The Pits #1
Image:Sins signe landonfour.jpg|from Sins of the Father (1979)
File:Pits1art3.jpg|from The Pits #1
Image:Zebra 3 issue 4 interior by signe landon.jpeg|interior art Zebra Three #4 (1979)
File:Elder3.jpg|from The Other Side of Paradise #4
File:Elder9.jpg|from The Other Side of Paradise #4
File:Elder4.jpg|from The Other Side of Paradise #4
 
===1980===
File:Casa cabrillo interior by singe landon.jpg|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." from S and H #16 
Image:casacabrillo-3.jpg|from Casa Cabrillo for "Still the Same"
Image:casacabrillo-12.jpg|from Casa Cabrillo for "Still the Same"
File:Dracula1979-16.jpg|from Dracula
File:Warped43back.jpg|from Warped Space #43, some Battlestar Galactica (1978) art
File:Warped43-12.jpg|from Warped Space #43
File:Warped43-11.jpg|from Warped Space #43, some The Prisoner art
File:Warped43-2.jpg|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.)
File:Phoenixsw1-17.jpg|from Phoenix #1
File:Pits2insidehuggy.jpg|from The Pits #2, a rare portrait of Huggy Bear
File:Pits2inside14.jpg|from The Pits #2, Hutch is undercover as a high school English teacher in the story, Prelude
File:Holmestwo.jpg|from The Holmesian Federation #2
File:Holmesfed2back.jpg|from The Holmesian Federation #2, Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes
Image:Precessional interior signe landon.jpg|from Precessional (Star Trek) (1980)
File:Precessional-3.jpg|from Precessional (Star Trek) (1980)
Image:Precess.jpg|from Precessional (Star Trek) (1980)
File:Alphacont4-5.jpg|from Alpha Continuum #4 (1980)
Image:kirkhornblower.jpg|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")
File:Signe Landon 1980 Spock at bedside .jpg|original art that was used in Gateway #1 
File:Paladin1back.jpg| from Paladin #1, Illya Kuryakin slays a dragon
File:Paladin1-5.jpg|from Paladin #1, some Wild Wild West art
File:Paladin1-12.jpg|from Paladin #1, a M*A*S*H*/Man from U.N.C.L.E. crossover
File:Othersidepara7art5.jpg|from The Other Side of Paradise #7 (art is dated 1980, the zine was 1987)
===1981===
File:Syndizine2-7.jpg|from Syndizine #2, for Time After Time (movie)
===1982===
File:Paladin2-4.jpg| from Paladin #2, Sherlock Holmes
File:Starstone5.jpg|from Starstone #5, illustrating "The Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda"
File:Xeno2-1.jpg|from Phoenix #2 (reprinted in 1985 as a fold-out in Xenozine #2)
File:Princesstapes2-13.jpg|form The Princess Tapes
Image:org.jpg|cover of Organia 
Organia29.jpg|from Organia
File:Holms3art1.jpg|from The Holmesian Federation #3
File:Holms3art2.jpg|from The Holmesian Federation #3
 
File:Holms3art4.jpg|from The Holmesian Federation #3
File:Straighttrek3.jpg|from Straight Trek
File:Straighttrek6.jpg|from Straight Trek
===1983===
File:MM Rerun1.jpg|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.
File:Insat7.jpg|from Insatiable Curiosity #7 
File:Galactic-Discourse-3.jpg|thumb|left|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." ShatnoyKisses' March 25, 2013 post to the K/S Zine Friends Facebook group, quoted with permission.
File:Galacticdis4art8.jpg|from Galactic Discourse #4
Image:Plagueintime.jpg|cover of A Plague in Time (1983) 
Image:Broken images int by signe landon.jpg|inside art for Broken Images (1983)
Image:MM_Rerun1.jpg|cover of Rerun #1, printed in [Textual Poachers]] (1983)
Image:Galactica4.jpg|cover of Galactic Discourse #4 (1983)
Image:othersideofparadise6back.jpg|back cover of The Other Side of Paradise #6 
File:Nome6art7.jpg|from Nome #7
===1984===
File:Studysteele-14.jpg|from A Study in Steele, from Remington Steele
File:Studysteele-8.jpg|from A Study in Steele, from Remington Steele
File:Holmesian fed 5 int by signe landon.jpg|from The Holmesian Federation #5
===1985===
File:Holmessix.jpg|from The Holmesian Federation #6
File:Hfederation6-1.jpg|from The Holmesian Federation #6, portrays Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who
File:Hfederation6-2.jpg|from The Holmesian Federation #6, portrays Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who
===1986===
Image:masiform15.jpg| three Spocks, one from the series, the others from the films, part of the wraparound cover of Masiform D #15 
File:Masiform15back.jpg| three Spocks, one from the series, the others from the films, part of the wraparound cover of Masiform D #15 
===1987===
Image:Galacticdiscourse5.jpg|cover of Galactic Discourse #5 (1987)
File:Galdis5art20.jpg|from Galactic Discourse #5 
===1991===
File:Holmes8-3.jpg|from the very controversial The Holmesian Federation #8
===1994===
Image:behindthelines3-4.jpg|cover of Behind the Lines v.3 no.4 (1994)
==References==
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