Empey
| Fan | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Empey |
| Alias(es): | Cardiane Wedgett, Marguerite Empey, Diane Webber |
| Type: | fan writer, fan artist; actor, dancer, model |
| Fandoms: | Star Trek TOS |
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| URL: | about Empey at Venus Observations, May 21, 2010 [offline] |
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Empey was a fan artist.
Empey was also, with friend Carol Padgett[1], half of the writing team known as Cardiane Wedgett, and in one zine, her name is listed as "Diana Empey." Her legal name was Marguerite Empey, but she also went by Diane Webber following her marriage in 1955.
Empey was also dancer, actress (film and television) and model, and was Playboy's Playmate of the Month in May 1955 and February 1956. In the 1960s, she became involved with the nudist movement and from 1969 to 1980 she was a belly dancer and instructor.
Empey passed away August 19, 2008.
Creator of Some Imaginative Vulcan Genitalia: The B'Yadu Barbed Penis
Empey introduced the Vulcan barbed penis in the story, B'Yadu.
Zine Art Contributions
Gallery
from A Matter of Life and Death by Cardiane Wedgett -- R & R #8 (1978)
from A Matter of Life and Death by Cardiane Wedgett -- R & R #8 (1978)
from A Matter of Life and Death by Cardiane Wedgett -- R & R #8 (1978)
The Kiss, an illo for A Matter of Life and Death by Cardiane Wedgett, for Sutarn -- R & R #9 (1979)
from "Quid Pro Quo" by Johanna Cantor -- R & R #11 (1979)
from Quid Pro Quo by Johanna Cantor -- R & R #11 (1979)
from Quid Pro Quo by Johanna Cantor -- R & R #11 (1979)
detail from a page from Quid Pro Quo by Johanna Cantor -- R & R #11 (1979)
from Epithalamion by Johanna Cantor -- R & R #13 (1981)
from "Promises to Keep" by Johanna Cantor R & R #16 (1981)
References
- ^ "Diane continued to teach at Everywoman's Village, illustrate the Star Trek stories she wrote with writing partner Carol Padgett and make belly dance costumes." From the section "Sea of Dreams" posted at Perfumes of Araby, circa 2009 (via Wayback Feb 28/21)