Teegar Taylor

Teegar Taylor is a Star Trek: TOS fan writer, fan poet and fan artist who often focuses on the character of Chekov from the Star Trek TV series. 
Teegar began creating fanart in about 1985. from a personal email from Teegar to MPH (February 2019) 
Some of her fan fiction can be found online here and in Jane Seaton's online fanzine The Book of Original Star Trek Fiction. Her art can be found here and on DeviantArt here.
In 1997, her story "Friend in Need" (co-written with Jane Seaton) came in second place for the ASC Awards Best General Story.harmony_bites. ASC Awards Winners - Trek: TOS, 17 July 2009. (Accessed 04 December 2010) Her artwork has appeared in numerous fanzines. In addition to her art, she has written short stories which have appeared in Bill Hupe's Abode of Strife fanzine series. She also contributed art and articles to the art zine Artforum in the 1990s.
 
==Print Zines in Which Teegar's Work Appears==
Abode of Strife | Abode of Strife Who?? | Artforum | Back to Square One | Beyond the Farthest Star | Chekov: In Love and In Trouble | Chekov Uncovered | Cherish and The Chosen | Edge of Forever | Empty Spaces | Formazine | Fresh Beaver Tails | Grip | Hailing Frequencies | In a Different Reality | The Inward Reach | Laff Trek | Masiform D | A Matter of Honor | Mi-Anime | Nine | Nova Trek | Of Mixed Blood | Orion Archives: 2284-2323 Captain Sulu | Psst... Hey Kid, Wanna Buy a Fanzine? | Qubed | Rec-Room Rhymes | Resurrection | Sensor Readings | The Small Rouge One | Swap | Tales from Ten-Forward | The Trekzine Times | Trexperts | We're Sleeping Where? | When the Hurting Stops
==Artwork Reviews==
Her artwork was reviewed after it appeared on a cover of Trekindex:
A fellow artist offered the following feedback on Teegar's "stipple" technique:
In 2010, her Kirk/Uhura portrait Midsummer Night was recommended on the Dreamwidth Fanart_recs community: 
In a review of the Artforum zine in Where None Have Gone Before, one reader commented:
==Comments by the Artist: 2019==
In 2019, Teegar discussed her early art and techniques: 
In 2019, Teegar discussed the zine Edge of Forever, differing approaches to editing and encouragement, tact and professionalism, creating art in print zines, the different trajectory of fan artists, the importance to fan artists of the zines Artforum and Psst... Hey Kid, Wanna Buy a Fanzine?, and more. 
==Gallery==
===Fanzine Art===
Image:trekarthur.jpg|zine cover of an unknown zine (~1985): "This was the first 'zine cover I ever did. I think this is circa 1985. I can't remember the name of the 'zine anymore, but I was thrilled out of my mind to be asked to do a cover. If I'm remembering correctly, this was a take-off on a Howard Pyle illustration of King Arthur and the Lady of the Lake." artist's notes on Archive of Our Own (2019) 
File:Abode19art5.jpg|inside art for Abode of Strife #19. This drawing may have used for the cover of Trekindex reviewed above.
File:Cycles.jpg|cover for Abode of Strife #21
File:Allthetime.jpg|cover for Abode of Strife #22
Image:abodeofstrife23.jpg|Abode of Strife #23.The artist writes: "This is a pretty standard sort of cover treatment, but it was special to me at the time because this is one of the first color covers I did. Color covers cost extra to produce, so it was really a mark of Bill Hupe's faith in me that he gave me the chance to do this one. The original artwork was in colored pencil. I'm afraid this one is a little "dotty" because it's a scan of a colored copy instead of from the original." Source: from the artist's Deviant Art gallery.
File:Abode24.jpg|cover for Abode of Strife #24. 
Image:abode25front.jpg|front cover Abode of Strife #25
Image:abode25back.jpg|back cover Abode of Strife #25
Image:edgeofforever3.jpg|cover of Edge of Forever #3
Image:ofmixedblood.jpg|cover of Of Mixed Blood
Image:nineart1.jpg|interior art, Nine
Image:nineart8.jpg|interior art, Nine
Image:grip26.jpg|cover of Grip #26
Image:Grip28.jpg|cover of Grip #28
Image:grip31back.jpg|back cover of Grip #31
File:Grip33back.jpgback cover of Grip #33
Image:artforum1art2.jpg|interior art Artforum #1
Image:artforum1art3.jpg|interior art Artforum #1
Image:artforum3art4.jpg|interior art from Artforum #3, for the story "When All Else Fails" in In a Different Reality
Image:artforum3art5.jpg|interior art from Artforum #3, from the Valjiir series
Image:artforum3art12.jpg|interior art from Artforum #3
Image:rec6front.jpg|front cover of Rec-Room Rhymes #6
File:Smallrougeone3.jpg|cover of The Small Rouge One #3 (1995)
Image:formazine5.jpg|cover of Formazine #5
Image:sensorreadings2.jpg|front cover of Sensor Readings #2
Image:swap.jpg|cover of Swap, a Chekov centered novel
===Online Art===
		
==References==
Category:Fanartists
Category:Fanwriters