Gloria-Ann Rovelstad

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Name:	Gloria-Ann Rovelstad
Alias(es):	GAR
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Fandoms:	Star Trek & Starsky & Hutch
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Gloria-Ann Rovelstad was a fan artist who illustrated for Star Trek and Starsky & Hutch fanzines in the 1970s and 1980s.

Her art was often line drawings, simple and spare.

Rovelstad passed away August 5, 1999.

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• The Psychology of Mr. Spock's Popularity (from Trek #8 (1977), reprinted in Best of Trek (1978)

Example Art Gallery

1978

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  from The Beast
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  from Naked Times #1
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  dated 1978, printed in a 1980 zine, Maine(ly) Trek #2
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  from Antithesis #4

1979

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  from Saurian Brandy Digest #17
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  from Stardate Unknown #5
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  from Spin Dizzie #2
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  from Spin Dizzie #2, Spock-McCoy standoff on p.65
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  from Nexus #4, portrays Zarabeth

1980

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  from The Holmesian Federation #2
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  from Alpha Touch #2
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  from Spin Dizzie #3
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  from Spin Dizzie #4
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  from Zebra Three #5
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  from Partners, reprinted in Podnahz
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  from Odyssey #4
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  from S and H #12, portrays Paul Michael Glaser as "Houdini"

1981

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  from Zebra Three #6
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  from Zebra Three #6, cartoon, some sexual good cheer
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  from Zebra Three #6
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  from Vault of Tomorrow #1
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  from Contact #7
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  from Contact #7

1983

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  from The Ninth Quadrant #5
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  from Final Frontier
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  from Final Frontier

1988

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  from Before the Glory

Comments by Rovelstad

Whatever happened to the good h/c stories. Seems they started to vanish as soon as K/S got popular. I miss them. Though I haven't been keeping up with zines lately and may have missed some. That dark TWOK movie really dampened my Trek enthusiasm when I most needed a boost. (What movie! Since they killed off Spock I only count it as a fanzine story.) Anyway, can anyone recommend any good zines with just plain h/c type stories? To be on the verge of getting to know someone, just the initial touching and caring and possibilities of a deeper attachment is much more exciting to me than stories that dive right into K/S and keep doing it the whole story. H/c seems to be the most logical way to break down stoic resistance to emotions, especially for Spock.

H/C stories don't have to be the kind with sadistic tortures, they can be just ordinary hurts too. I love to see men show tenderness for each other and these were the 1st stores that would allow for it. They gradually were replaced by K/S, but I still think they are two distinct types. I must have grown up totally isolated or something, cause I never knew men could be so caring and showing of emotions like that. And the few examples in real life I saw, were only if someone were hurt. Then they could be caring and not stoic or macho. To me when sex enters into a relationship it is not the same kind of love as in h/c, it is more like lustful gratification then true altruistic love, which is what I like best in a story.

On your chart of givers and receivers, wouldn't it seem that a Spock fan who writes from Kirk's point of view and is a receiver is exactly the same viewpoint as the much maligned, and in fact banned, Mary Sue. I see it just the same, just a switch of gender and then one can play out fantasies without breaking up the wonderful KS relationship with some interfering woman. I think people just write themselves into one of the guy's places. I think females fantasize of being male, after all, males seem to have all the fun.

What? No"/" relationship between S&H because Hutch lacked sensitivity? He's the most sensitive person I've ever seen! (but that doesn't make him not mean at times!) I too am very annoyed at him because he was so cutting down of Starsky, but that was in the last two seasons of the show when it was going downhill fast. The 1st and 2nd seasons showed him much more kind and loving to his friend. I love those guys. Sensitivity doesn't preclude meanness, sometimes it makes it worse, for it is two sided. Used toward good to understand someone with sympathy, used toward bad to exploit or pick on them. The sensitive person is more easily hurt by others and can either choose never to hurt others as they have been hurt, or can be extra mean and bitter. Hutch sort of goes both ways!

Zine Contributions

Star Trek

• Alpha Touch
• Antithesis
• The Best of Trek
• The Beast
• Before the Glory
• The Clipper Trade Ship
• Contact
• Final Frontier
• The Holmesian Federation
• The Human Adventure Continues
• Interstat
• K/S & K.S. (Kindred Spirits)
• Maine(ly) Trek
• Naked Times
• Nexus
• The Ninth Quadrant
• Odyssey
• ReVisions
• Saurian Brandy Digest
• Sol Plus
• Spin Dizzie
• Stardate: Unknown
• Trek
• Trek Continuum
• TrexIndex
• Views of Intimation
• Voices from the Stars
• Vault of Tomorrow

Starsky & Hutch

• Me and Thee
• Mini-Zine
• Partners
• Podnahz
• S and H
• The Striped Tomato
• Zebra Three