Barbara Fister-Liltz

Barbara Fister-Liltz is a prolific fanartist who has created covers and interior fanart for zines in many fandoms. 
She has won numerous fan awards and has also done commercial art work, along with editing and publishing fanzines such as Melange. 
She has been attending conventions since the mid 1980s. 
Her husband, Frank Liltz, often worked with her on illustrating fanzines and books. Together they published under the name of Fenris House Press. 
In later years Barbara also published under the name of Alchemy Ink.
==Self-Bio==
In 1982, she was nominated for a FanQ award and submitted the following bio to The Annual Fan Q Awards Nominations Booklet: 
==Awards==
*1982 FanQ award Best Other Media Artist for Facets #7/8 and Purple and Orange? 
*2001 nominated for a Star Award for Best Color Cover Artist (Bright Center of the Universe #10)
*2005 FanQ STARGATE, BEST GEN ARTIST 
*2006 MediaWest art show award: Best Horror: Dark Embrace
==Fan Comments==
In 1993, two members of the Peter Cushing fan club discussed the actor's reaction to Barbara's oil painting that she presented to him (A photo of the painting can be viewed here (painting is on the far left):
Her Forever Knight painting La Famille inspired Lisa Wright to write a story with the same name in 2002.
==Zines Published/Edited by Barbara Fister-Liltz==
Barbara published under several press names, including Fenris House, Special Services Unlimited, and Pandora Publications.
 
*Bedtime Stories from the Dead of Winter
*Belinda: A Weekend in New England 
*Biting Satire, or Forever Knight Lite!
*Black Amber
*Cauchemar
*Chimera
*Chosen Haunts 
*Conquistador: The Vachon Collection 
* Dark Graffiti
*Dark Kiss 
*Dark Sluggos 
*Dark Vengeance 
*Dark, Dark My Light 
*The Devil You Know 
* Die Laughing 
*Echoes of Death
*Eclectic 
*The Edge of the Abyss 
*En Famille
*Faery Tale
*Fantazy (with Joan Shumsky) 
*The Forever Knight Compendium
*Four Seasons With LaCroix
*Furever Knight, or The View from Down Under
*Heat
* It Grew Behind... Cabinet
*It's a Wonderful Unlife
*Jayne A. Largent Cartoon Series 
*Knightbeat 
*Lagniappe
*Melange (with Joan Shumsky)
*Mixed Media 
*Nightbeat
*No Other Love
*Outlands
*Red Shoe Diaries
*Samskar
*Soul on Fire: Pompeii Revisited
* Spirits & Shades 
*Tales from the Black Pearl
*The 'Til Death Do Us Part Affair
*tracings
*Tryst of Dark Shadows 
*Twists of Fate
*Veritas 
*Vive la Resistance! 
*When We Weep
*Winner Takes All (Magnificent Seven zine)
==Zines with Barbara Fister-Liltz's Art==
 
* Belinda: A Weekend in New England
*The Cat in the Tricorne Hat
*Chaapa'ai #1, #2
*The Dark Angel Trilogy
* Dark Vengeance
* Decades: 1760-1800 (art and poetry)
* Eclectic
*Facets (Harrison Ford zine) #7/8 and 10
*Fire in His Soul
* Galactica
*Inside the Old House
*Jumper #2
*KarlenZine
*Lurkers in the Shadows 
* Masquerade Calendar
*Masks 
*Mirrors (Beauty and the Beast zine)
* No Other Love
*On the Wings of the Wind
*Red Dust
*Reflections
*Resolutions in Time
*Showcase #2
*Simple Gifts
*Tales from the Black Pearl
* The U.N.C.L.E. Special
*The World of Dark Shadows
* The Traveller Songbook
*What You Fancy #2
*Who's Scruffy-Lookin'?
==Sample Art==
Image:barbaraleia.jpg|Leia Organa
Image:barbaraobi.jpg|Obi-Wan Kenobi
File:Babaraedgar.jpg|Edgar Allen Poe
Image:barbaraverne.jpg|Jules Verne
Image:barbarareturnofthejedi.jpg|Return of the Jedi (1983)
Image:fisterillya.jpg|Illya Kuryakin - "The amazing this is that this is scratchboard and you remove the black to reveal white underneath. That shirt constantly amazes me. It's the pride of my collection... She is truly gifted and I was lucky because I caught her before she'd really 'made' it, so I could still afford her prices. Worth every penny." from spikesgirl58 at The drawing I was speaking of earlier (March 2021) 
File:Flightofhisfancy.png|"Whether to Tame the Flight of His Fancy" (The Professionals)
File:Jimmypageliltz.jpg|Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin (1987)
Image:barbarasnakeplissken.jpg|Snake Plissken from Escape from New York 
Image:hawkbarbarafisterliltz.jpg|"Hawk" from Buck Rogers
Image:Chaapa_ai_2.JPG|cover of Chaapa'ai #1
Image:Chaapa'ai 2.jpg|cover of Chaapa'ai #2
Image:jumpertwo.jpg|cover of Jumper #2
Image:obiwan.jpg|This original painting features an image of Sir Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi. It was part of a collection of 12 cameo portraits done for Forry Ackerman in the 1980s. The image area measures 4" x 4". 
Image:Masks.jpg|cover Masks
Image:Fister liltz undated spock.jpg|an undated illo of Spock
Image:Klingonpotraitbybarbaral.jpg|art for Showcase #2
==References==
Category:Fanartists