Doug Herring

Fan
Name:	Douglas Herring
Alias(es):	Doug Herring
Type:	fanartist, tribber
Fandoms:	Star Trek: TOS
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URL:	art website The Seattle Knights and the Pirates of Puget Sound
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Doug Herring is a Star Trek: TOS fanartist.

Herring's artwork featured in a number of Star Trek anthologies and fanzines.

He became a professional artist.

Interview

• Adventure Classic Gaming; archive link (November 2010)

Comments by Herring

1978

I felt like a snob when I saw my letter printed "address withheld by request.” I commented earlier about not wanting my address spread around because I was (and still am) booked solid and am hard-pressed to do the fan work (mostly comic-fandom) that I'm committed to do. Other than that I like to hear from people, as long as they don't expect a prompt reply and realize that though I'd like to help out, I can't promise to do any fan art.

Something like 75% of the major fan art I did for ST fandom between '73-75 was printed or returned. And the majority of it was specifically requested work. I had a ton of work, including two possible covers, for BABEL 6 which never saw print along with a lot of BABEL 5 illos that weren't used. Some of the minor ones have been trickling out of Boojums Press, but for the most part, what in my opinion was some of my best ST art, is lost. Then there's THOLIAN WEB which received a lot of my earliest work, including some major covers, then, nothing. After five years some of the minor spots are coming out in SAURIAN BRANDY DIGEST.

I realize most would-be editors are simply fans with great expectations that don't work out, but that doesn't excuse their inconsiderate handling of contributors. And now that I'm putting more time into each drawing I can't afford to mess around with people like that. I'm gun shy, and I admit it.

I wrote a limerick in answer to Douglas Herring:

If you've seen something D. Herring drew.

You know why he's plenty to do.

He's been known to attest

From his unknown address,

"Don't call me, and I won't call you!"

Example Fanworks

1973

• 
  from Babel #4
• 
  cover of the Starcon #3 program book, reprinted from Babel #3 (1972)
• 
  from T-Negative #21

1974

• 
  from T-Negative #24
• 
  from Star Trek Nuts & Bolts #1, the same character is portrayed in Metamorphosis #2
• 
  from Berengaria #3
• 
  from Sub-Space #1
• 
  from A Piece of the Action #12, Herring did the masthead
• 
  from Tal Shaya #2

1975

• 
  from T-Negative #29 -- from a fan: "I love the front and back covers on #29: that looks just like the devil with horns and a tail striding along the low mountains in front of the interesting Enterprise operation — perhaps a game of pounce on some unsuspecting aliens living beneath the dome, maybe escaping a couple of Klingon ships behind the whole drawing. Something sure scared them out of the frame."
• 
  from Quartet
• 
  from Kraith Collected #2 and #3
• 
  from Showcase #2
• 
  from Showcase #2

1976

• 
  from Metamorphosis #2 - this same character is also portrayed in Star Trek Nuts & Bolts #1
• 
  from Triskelion issue #5
• 
  from Showcase #3: "Memory Alpha Complex" from "New Start"
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  from Showcase #3: "Klothar Crossing the Border"
• 
  from Showcase #3 -- "Others were favorites - especially Doug Herring's portrait of a Riar. Naturally this is a favorite, since it was my co-editor, Kar-sun who discovered for us outsiders this beautiful Klingonese feline. (Doug has another Riar drawing in this zine - and the cat is taking a Klingon for a walk!) I also freely admit to being prejudiced!)"
• 
  from Menagerie #9

1977

• 
  from Clipper Trade Ship #14: "Lt. Feela of Sabor, Security"
• 
  from Showcase #4, "Otsud in Flight"
• 
  from Showcase #4
• 
  from Southern Star #3, a Klingon takes Rian for walkies
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  from Star Trek Nuts & Bolts #14/15, the cover art for the proposed zine, "Agripol" (never published) -- "like to compliment Douglas Herring on his Agripol cover. Someone should talk him into doing some STN&B covers."

1978

• 
  from Clipper Trade Ship #22: "Back off, Chewie. I've been around alot longer than you have."
• 
  from Trexindex
• 
  for "Darkness in My Soul" from Probe #12
• 
  from the You Are Receiving This Zine Because page in Saurian Brandy Digest #13
• 
  from Star Trek Nuts & Bolts #21/22 -- "I was impressed with the cover (I've always liked Doug Herring's style)."
  
  "Your Herring cover was good. I hope to see more from Douglas."
  
  "The front cover was unbelievable, it looked like it was done by a professional science fiction magazine. Douglas Herring is an EXCELLENT artist... Keep up the good work! By the way, how does Mr. Herring accomplish the star field background? I'd be interested in finding out."

1979

• 
  from Captain Uhura
• 
  from Showcase Presents the Alternate Universes of Star Wars
• 
  from Showcase Presents the Alternate Universes of Star Wars

1983

• 
  from The Clipper Trade Ship #43
• 
  from The Clipper Trade Ship #43 -- "The front cover -- very striking. Back cover also good, although I wish Herring hadn't copied the exact poses of the folks in a publicity photo."

1989

• 
  from Wulfstone

Zine Contributions

• 1977 Star Trek Welcommittee Calendar-Datebook
• Archives
• Babel
• Berengaria
• Captain Uhura
• The Clipper Trade Ship
• Communication the Hard Way
• Klingon Empire Appointment Calendar
• Kraith Collected
• Menagerie
• Metamorphosis
• No
• Piece of the Action
• Probe
• Quartet
• Saurian Brandy Digest
• The Sensuous Vulcan
• Showcase
• Showcase Presents the Alternate Universes of Star Wars
• Sol III
• Southern Star
• Star Trek Nuts & Bolts
• The Star Trek Songbook
• Starcon program book
• The Starwitch
• Sub-Space
• T-Negative
• Tal Shaya
• TrexIndex
• Triskelion
• Vul-Con program book
• Warp Factor
• Wulfstone