Fred Hembeck

Fan
Name:	Fred Hembeck
Alias(es):
Type:	fanartist
Fandoms:	Star Trek TOS, comics
Communities:
Other:	Fred Hemberk, Comic Guy at Tumblr
URL:	Hembeck.Com; Wikipedia
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Fred Hembeck is a fanartist-turned-pro active in the comics and Star Trek TOS fandoms from the 1960s through to the 2000s. He was known especially for his satirical cartoons about comics, which were initially published in various zines and which were later included in the "Daily Planet" pages of DC Comics and in the professional Marvel magazine, Marvel Age. He was also the artist in a Brother Voodoo comic published in Marvel Super-Heroes vol. 2 #1 and has been published by First Comics, Krause Publications, Comic Shop News, Fantagraphics Books, Topps Comics, TwoMorrows Publishing, and Archie Comics. He is still active with comics fandom via his website and provides frequent interviews.

Notable Works

• Dateline: @#$?! - satirical and humour comic strips featuring a variety of characters from Marvel, DC and others. These featured in The Buyer's Guide For Comics Fandom, Comic Book Profiles and Comic Book Artist, between 1977 and 2003.
• Petey, The Adventures of Peter Parker LOOONNNG Before He Became Spider-Man - comic strip.
• "Fred Hembeck interviews Roger Stern", Fantaco Chronicles #5 (1`982), via The Tom Brevoort Experience, posted November 11, 2023.

Gallery

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  "Sherlock Spock" in Enterprise Incidents #6, with Hilary Barta (1978)

Awards

• Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards - "Favorite Fan Artist" (1982-1984)

Interviews

• Fred Hembeck Interview at Westfield Comics blog, 2007
• The Hembeck Interview by Roger Owen Green at Ramblin' With Roger, January 27, 2008
• CR Sunday Interview: Fred Hembeck by Tom Spurgeon at The Comics Reporter, March 9, 2008
• Interview with Fred Hembeck by Darrick Patrick at Panel Bound, October 17, 2011.
• "Legendary Comic Book Artist, Fred Hembeck Interview", The Two Towers Talk Show, 2021
• The Earth Station One Podcast - Artist Spotlight On Fred Hembeck, Earth Station One podcast, March 31, 2022
• Live Art Sale and Chat with Comic Artist Fred Hembeck at CAF+, November 18, 2023
• Live Art Sale and Chat with Comic Artist Fred Hembeck - Round 2 at CAF+, February 17, 2024
• Live Art Sale and Chat with Comic Artist Fred Hembeck - Round 3 at CAF+, June 22, 2024
• The Art of Comic Artist Fred Hembeck - Live Art Sale and Chat at CAF+, April 26, 2025
• 13 Perfectly Hembeckian Pieces in Celebration of FRED HEMBECK’s BIRTHDAY by Dan Greenfield at 13th Dimension, January 30, 2024.

Archives/Zines/Collections/Communities

Zines

As Editor

• Hembeck - the Best of Dateline:@#$% #1 - collected cartoons published in a number of zines from 1977-1979 [Eclipse Comics] (1979)
• Hembeck 1980 or Son of The Best of Dateline @!!?# (1980) #2 [FantaCo Enterprises] (1980)
• Abbott & Costello Meet the Bride of Hembeck #3 [FantaCo Enterprises] (1980)
• Bah, Hembeck! #4 [FantaCo Enterprises] (1980)
• Hembeck: The Best of Dateline: @!!?# #1 reprint [FantaCo Enterprises] (1980)
• The Hembeck File #5 [FantaCo Enterprises] (1981)
• Jimmy Olsen's Pal, Fred Hembeck #6 [FantaCo Enterprises] (1981)
• FantaCo's Chronicles Series #2 - 'The Fantastic Four Chronicles' (1982)
• FantaCo's Chronicles Series #3 - 'The Daredevil Chronicles' (1982)
• FantaCo's Chronicles Series #4 - 'The Avengers Chronicles' (1982)
• FantaCo's Chronicles Series #5 - 'The Spider-Man Chronicles' (1982)
• Dial H for Hembeck (1983) #7 [FantaCo Enterprises] (1983)
• FantaCo's Chronicles Series Annual 1 (1983)
• Comic Book Artist
  • Issue #3 - co-editor (2004)
  • Issue $4 - co-editor (2004)

As Contributor

• The Collector [comics]
  • Issue #10 - interior art (1968)
• Rocket's Blast Comicollector
  • Issue #145 - interior art (1978)
  • Issue #146 - interior art (1978)
  • Issue #150 - “The Fred Hembeck No One Knows About,” featuring Marvel try-out art and "The RBCC Artists’ Jam” (1979)
  • Issue #151 - "Harlan Ellison Meets the Man O’War" (illustration) (1980)
  • Issue #153 - interior art (1982)

• Enterprise Incidents [Star Trek TOS]
  • Issue #6 - interior art for "Sherlock Spock" (1978)

• The Comic Reader
  • Issue #154 - a full-color cartoon of Spider-Man (1978)
  • Issue #155 - full-color spot illo of Nova (1978)
  • Issue #156 - full-color six-panel strip about Captain America (1978)
  • Issue #157 - full-color cartoon featuring four DC heroines (1978)
  • Issue #158 - back cover featuring Doctor Strange (1978)
  • Issue #159 - cartoon featuring The New X-Men (1978)
  • Issue #168 - "Daredevil/Iron Man" - writer and illustrator (1979)
  • Issue #169 - full-color, half-page "Hembeck Salutes... The T.H.U.N.D.E.R Agents" illustration (1979)
  • Issue #173 - "How Do They Do It? The Etiology of Super-Powers" interior art (1979)
  • Issue #184 - interior art
  • Issue #188 - front cover with Bill Anderson (1980)
• The Comics Journal
  • Issue #44 - full-page illustration featuring Superman, The Question, Spider-Man and Little Archie. (1979)
  • Issue #54 - interior art (1980)
  • Issue #60 - front cover with Dennis Fujitake (1980)
  • Issue #63 - interior art (1981)
  • Issue #74 - interior art (1982)
• Comics Collector
  • Issue #1 - interior art (1983)
• Comic Book Profiles
  • Issue #2 "Bernie Wrightson" - "Hembeck's Final Thoughts" comic strip (1998)
  • Issue #6 "Gene Conlan" - "Hembeck's Final Thoughts" comic strip (1999)
  • Issue #7 "Michael William Kaluta" - "Hembeck's Final Thoughts" comic strip (1999)
  • Special Edition No. 1 - "Dateline @!!?*" comic strip (1999)
• Comic Book Artist
  • Issue #3 - "Dateline: @*!?#" comic strip and "The Adventurous Career of... Bob Bolling" (artist) (2004)
• Mid-Ohio-Con 2009 Program Book - front cover