Susan Wyllie

Susan Wyllie was a fanartist, poet, filker and fan writer active in a number of fandoms in the 1970s and 1980s. She even created puzzles!
Susan began her involvement in fandom with the Mark Lenard International Fan Club, with her contributions earning her nominations for the AGS Award three years running beginning in 1977 (and a tied first place in 1978). Concurrently she was also part of The Collinsport Call (a Dark Shadows) fan club and The Leonard Nimoy Nuts and Bolts. 
Her earliest fanworks appear in 1977, in the zines associated with the various fan clubs she was a member of. She was extremely prolific over the next 7 years, receiving positive responses to her poetry and art especially. She was also the subject, along with another fan writer, of Jean Lorrah's infamous concrit letter in Despatch Issue #35; the letter can be found here and more information about the response to Jean's letter can be found in the A Matter of Principle article. 
Susan wrote and drew gen, het and slash content and was a K/S shipper. She was also known for her humorous works as well as the serious ones. After 1984, she appears to have stopped contributing to fanzines - there are no references to her work in zines past this time.
Following a long illness, Susan passed away on July 28, 2014 at the age of 65, Susan Wyllie Obituary, Legacy.com
==Awards==
*AGS Award
**1977 - second place
**1978 - tied first place with Elaine Norwood
**1979 - tied fourth place with Margot Klein
*Who You Know, What You Know, & How You Know It...; Age Statement Competition Winner, 1983
==Reviews and Recommendations ==
== Notable Fanworks==
===Fanfiction===
* "Midnight Glory" (Star Wars TOS Kirk/Spock) (1982)
*"The Things I Cannot Change" (Star Trek: TOS, Kirk/Spock, hurt/comfort - explicit) - novel co-written with Chris Thomson (1982)
*"The Once and Future Mudd" (Star Trek: The Original Series) - novel co-written with Dawna Snyder (1984)
===Comic Strip=== 
*"The Adventures of Mrs. Darth Vader" (Star Wars: Original Trilogy) - humour comic strip about "Darth Vader's wife".
File:Mec1-1-3.jpg|The Adventures of Mrs. Darth Vader - Chapter 1 [Mos Eisley Chronicle #1 (1978)]
File:Mec2-2.jpg|The Adventures of Mrs. Darth Vader [Mos Eisley Chronicle #2 (1981)]
File:Mec2-5.jpg|The Adventures of Mrs. Darth Vader [Mos Eisley Chronicle #2 (1981)]
File:Moseisleychronicles3-4.jpg|The Adventures of Mrs. Darth Vader [Mos Eisley Chronicle #3 (1984)]
====Reactions and Reviews to Mr.s Darth Vader====
===Filks===
*"Vampires Prowl" to the tune of "Jimmy Crack Corn" (Dark Shadows) - Curses! Filked Again! (1980)
*"Barbabas" to the tune of "Clemintine" (Dark Shadows) - Filksongs That Go Bump in the Night (1983)
===Fanart Gallery===
===1970s===
File:Despatch33-8.jpg|Despatch #33, interior art, Here Come the Brides (1977)
File:Despatch34-4.jpg|Despatch #34, interior art Star Trek: The Animated Series (1977)
File:Despatch35-1.jpg|Despatch #35, interior art Here Come the Brides (1978)
File:Despatch35-5.jpg|Despatch #35, interior art Star Trek: The Original Series (1978)
File:Despatch37-10.jpg|Despatch #37, interior art Here Come the Brides (1978)
File:Cc8.jpg|The Collinsport Call Issue #8, front cover (1978)
File:Ob3-11.jpg|Obsc'zine Issue #3 "The Loving Touch", Kirk/Spock (TOS) poem and art (1978)
File:Despatch39-7.jpg|Despatch #39, interior art The Secret Empire (1979)
File:Despatch40-1.jpg|Despatch #40, interior art Here Come the Brides (1979)
File:Despatch40-2.jpg|Despatch #40, interior art Here Come the Brides (1979)
File:Sbd19.jpg|Saurian Brandy Digest #19, Star Trek TOS front cover (1979)
File:Sbrandy20.jpg|Saurian Brandy Digest #20, Star Trek TOS front cover (1979)
File:Mccoysilleg4-5.jpg|McCoy's Illegible Log Issue #4, "The Pink Grink", Star Trek TOS fiction and art (1979)
File:Showcasepresents16.jpg|Showcase Presents the Alternate Universes of Star Wars, interior art, Chewbacca (1979)
File:WXYZine 2 interior.jpg|WXYZine, interior art, Kirk/Spock (TOS) (1979)
File:Wxyzine2.jpg|WXYZine interior art for "The Children of Skaya" (1979)
File:Timeofsurakart6.jpg|The Time of Surak, from the "Pre-Logic Vulcan" portfolio, Star Trek TOS (1979) 
===1980s===
File:Cc16.jpg|The Collinsport Call Issue #16 front cover (1980)
File:Sbd22-1.jpg|Saurian Brandy Digest #22, interior art Star Trek TOS(1980)
File:Sbd22-2.jpg|Saurian Brandy Digest #22, interior art Star Trek TOS (1980)
File:Sbd23.jpg|Saurian Brandy Digest #23, front cover art Star Trek TOS (1980)
File:Sbd25.jpg|Saurian Brandy Digest #25, front cover art Star Trek TOS (1980)
File:Saurian29.jpg|Saurian Brandy Digest #29, front cover art Star Trek TOS (1981)
File:Me 2 by susan wyllie.jpg|Me and Thee interior art, Starsky & Hutch (1981)
File:Methee2gen-5.jpg|Me and Thee interior art of Captain Dobey, Starsky & Hutch (1981)
File:Methee2gen-7.jpg|Me and Thee interior art for "Outside Looking In," by Shirley Passman, a poem in which Hutch feels misery at Starsky's wedding. (Starsky & Hutch( (1981)
File:Vespers2inside3.jpg|L.A. Vespers interior art, Starsky and Hutch (1982)
File:T'zad'u-4.jpg|T'zad'u interior art, Star Trek TOS K/S zine (1982)
File:T'zad'u - Int art 6.jpg|T'zad'u interior art, Star Trek TOS K/S zine (1982)
File:Bravenewworlds-2.jpg|Brave New Worlds interior art, Kirk/Spock (TOS) (1982)
File:Pushingtheoddscagney.jpg|Pushin' the Odds, interior art. Cagney for "Double Dutch" (1983)
File:Pushingtheoddslacy.jpg|Pushin' the Odds, interior art. Lacey for "Double Dutch" (1983)
File:Pushin7.jpg|Pushin' the Odds interior art, Starsky & Hutch (1983)
File:Brandy33.jpg|Saurian Brandy Digest #33, front cover art Star Trek TOS (1984)
File:Brandy33-1.jpg|Saurian Brandy Digest #33, interior art Star Trek TOS (1984)
File:Brandy33-2.jpg|Saurian Brandy Digest #33, interior art Star Trek TOS(1984)
File:Warped50art7.jpg|Warped Space Issue #50, illustration for The Star Trek Wars (1984)
==Zines/Archives/Communities==
=== Zines===
====As Contributor==== 
*Despatch (Mark Lenard fan zine) 
**Issue #33: Yearbook - "Love's Precious Flame" (illo and poem, Star Trek: TOS, Sarek and Amanda); "Reunion" (fiction and art, Here Come the Brides); "Ballad of Itchy Stich, or Seattle's Worst Winter" (poem HCtB) and interior art (1977)
**Issue #34: Bulletin - "Concert on Babel" (poem); "Ode to a Producer" (poem, Mark Lenard/Little House on the Prairie); "A Fishy Tale" (fiction, HCtB) and interior art (1978)
** Issue #35: Bulletin - "Stopover at Briarstone" (fiction, HCtB); After You're Gone" (poem, Star Trek TOS); "Sibling Rivalry" (poem, humor) and interior art (1978)
**Issue #36: Bulletin - "How to Marry a Vulcan" (poem); "The Story of Noah Revisited" (fiction) (1978)
**Issue #37: Yearbook - "The Interrupted Wedding" (fiction, HCtB); "The REAL Secret of the the Secret Empire" (poem, The Secret Empire) and interior art (1978)
** Issue #39: Bulletin - "The Network Man" (poem, commentary on NBC and The Secret Empire) and interior art (1979)
**Issue #40: Bulletin - "The Best Laid Plans" (fiction, HCtB); and interior art (1979)
* The Collinsport Call (Dark Shadows)
**Issue #4 - "The Secret Subscriber" (poem) (1978)
**Issue #5 - interior art (1978)
**Issue #8 - front cover and interior art (1978)
**Issue #9 - "The Time of the Living Dead" (poem) (1979)
**Issue #10 - "The Dream of Barnabas Collins" (poem) (1979)
**Issue #16 - front cover (1980)
**Issue #19 - "Blind Date" (fiction) (1983)
**Issue #20/21 - "Myths and Legends: The Origin of Superstitions" (article) (1984)
**Issue #22 - "Dark Shadows Cryptogram" (puzzle) (1984)
*Star Trek Nuts & Bolts (gen TOS science fiction media)
**Issue 24/25 - "In Loving Memory" (poem) (1978)
**Issue #26 - "Follow A Star" (poem) (1978)
**Issue #29 - "One Sun-Bright Day" (poem) (1979)
**Issue #32 - "Prelude of Things to Come" (poem) (1979) - used as frontispiece to the final issue.
*WXYZine (Star Trek TOS) 
**Issue #1 - "For Miramanee", "Where Do Butterflies Go When It Rains", "To Captain Kirk" (poem), "In Every Port", plus interior art (1978)
**Issue #2 - "Lost Love ", "The Children of Skaya", "Vulcan Dancer" and interior art (1979)
**Issue #3 - "The Curse of Okazan" (1981)
*Mos Eisley Chronicle (Star Wars/Original Trilogy)
**Issue #1 - "The Adventures of Mrs. Darth Vader" - comic strip (1978)
**Issue #2 - "The Adventures of Mrs. Darth Vader" - comic strip (1981)
**Issue #3 - "Yoda's Thoughts" - art and "The Adventures of Mrs. Darth Vader" - comic strip (1984)
*Moonbeam (gen multifandom)
**Issue #4 - "Illya's Reverie" (poem, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) (1978)
*The Time of Surak (Star Trek TOS) - Pre-Logic Vulcan (art portfolio), The First Questions (poem) (1979)
*Obsc'zine (adult Star Trek: TOS)
**Issue #3 - interior art and "The Loving Touch" (poem) (1979)
*Showcase Presents the Alternate Universes of Star Wars (Star Wars/Original Trilogy) - "Alderaan" (poem) and interior art (1979)
*Saurian Brandy Digest (Star Trek TOS)
**Issue #19 - front cover and internal art (1979)
**Issue #20 - front cover and internal art (1979)
**Issue #22 - "The Brez Testament" and interior art (1980)
**Issue #23 - front cover and interior art (1980)
**Issue #25 - front cover and "I Resign" (poem) (1980) - poem reprinted in Computer Playback Issue #6 with art by Carol Hart (1982)
**Issue #26 - "Yarn of the Enterprise" (poem) (1980)
**Issue #28 - interior art (1981)
**Issue #29 - front cover and interior art (1981)
**Issue #33 - "The Once and Future Mudd", co-written with Dawna Snyder, plus front cover and interior art (1984)
*McCoy's Illegible Log (Star Trek TOS)
**Issue #4 - "The Pink Grink" - fiction and art (1979)
*In a Plain Brown Wrapper ( het Star Trek: TOS anthology)
**Issue #1 - More Than My Life (1979)
*The Pits (Starsky & Hutch)
**Issue #2 - "Huggy at the Bar" (poem) (1980)
*The Striped Tomato (Starsky & Hutch) - "Disillusioned" (fiction) and interior art (1980)
*Nome (Star Trek TOS)
**Issue #2 - "Over the Hill to the Poorhouse" (1980)
*Star Canticle (Star Trek TOS)
**Issue #4 - "Where Do We Go?" (fiction or poem?) (1980)
*The World of Dark Shadows (Dark Shadows)
**Issue #28 - interior art (1981)
**Issue #37 - interior art (1984)
*The Human Adventure Continues (Star Trek TOS, with a McCoy slant) - interior art (1981?)
*Naked Times (Star Trek TOS Kirk/Spock)
**Issue #4/5 Part 1 - "Before and After" and "The House on Beacon Street" (1981)
*Odyssey (gen Star Trek TOS)
**Issue #5 - "Reoruse"; and interior art (1981)
*Ten-Thirteen (Starsky & Hutch)
**Issue #2 - interior art (1981)
*Me and Thee (Starsky & Hutch)
**Issue #2 - interior art (1981)
*Cheap Thrills (Star Trek TOS Kirk/Spock)
**Issue #1 - "Progressions of the Heart" (fiction) (1981)
**Issue #4 - "Aldebaran Roses" (1982)
*T'hy'la (Star Trek TOS Kirk/Spock)
**Issue #2 - "The Things I Cannot Change" co-written with Chris Thomson (1982)
*Alternaties (Star Trek TOS Kirk/Spock)
**Issue #1 - interior art (1982)
*Brave New Worlds (Star Trek TOS Kirk/Spock zine) - interior art (1982)
*Duet (slash K/S Star Trek: TOS)
**Issue #5 - "Kiss Me Alive" (poem), "Days Without Love" (poem), "Reunion" (poem) and interior art (1982)
**Issue #6 - "Midnight Glory" (fiction) (1982)
**Issue #8 - interior art (1984)
*T'zad'u (Star Trek TOS Kirk/Spock) - interior art (1982)
*L.A. Vespers (Starsky & Hutch)
**Issue #2 - interior art and "Fairy Tales" (poem) (1982)
*The Ninth Quadrant (gen Star Trek TOS)
**Issue #4 - Vulcan Word Fill-In Puzzle (puzzle) (1982)
*Pushin' the Odds (Starsky & Hutch) - "Waiting" (poem), "One More Time of Almost" (fiction), "The Beginning of "We""(poem), "Coming Home" (poem) and interior art (1983)
*Final Frontier (Star Trek slash zine)
**Issue #2 - "Reflections from the Mirror" and "Touching and Touched", plus interior art (1983)
*The U.N.C.L.E. Special (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
**Issue #1 - "The First Affair" co-written with Dawna Snyder and interior art (1983)
*Three Eleven (Starsky & Hutch) - interior art (1984)
*Warped Space (multifandom)
**Issue #50 - The Star Trek Wars (Star Trek and Star Wars crossover) comic strip and interior art (1984)
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