Jeanne Gomoll

Jeanne Gomoll is the designer of the "SpaceBabe" icon for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. She was nominated twice for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist, in 1978 and 1980.

Gomoll was joint editor, with Janice Bogstad, of Janus a feminist science fiction fanzine nominated three years running for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine, in 1978, 1979 and 1980. She is the author of An Open Letter to Joanna Russ, an influential essay, available online and in Fanthology '87. She also authored the introduction to Helen Merrick and Tess Williams' Women of Other Worlds Excursions through SF and Feminism, 1999.

Influential in beginning the mailing list FEM-SF and in planning every WisCon. Member of the Secret Feminist Cabal. Contributor to A Women's Apa and CRapa. Publisher of The Bakery Men Don't See, nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book, and Her Smoke Rose up from Supper.

Awards and nominations

1978, nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist
1978, joint editor, with Janice Bogstad, of Janus, a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
1979, Fan Guest at ArmadilloCon 1
1979, joint editor, with Janice Bogstad, of Janus, a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
1980, nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist
1980, joint editor, with Janice Bogstad, of Janus, a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
1987, elected winner of TAFF the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund
1992, publisher of The Bakery Men Don't See, a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book

Artwork & Writing

Editor, designer, layout, illustrations, essays and fiction for Janus (#1-18, 1975-80)
Editorial collective member for Aurora (#19-26, 1981-90)
Obsessions, apazine for A Women's Apa, (#1-29, 1976-1983)
Shoreline, apazine, for the Cascade Regional Apa (#1-11, 1978-81)
What Spare Time?!, personal zine, (#1-2, 1979)
Cube, SF3 newszine (#1-13, 1982-1985) Subsequent issues edited by other SF3 members.
Alcheringa, apazine, for Anzapa (#1, 1982)
Whimsy, personal zine (#1-7, 1983-?)
Allargando, apazine for Turbo-Charged Party Animal Apa, (#1-16, September 1986 to 1988)
Taffiles, TAFF newsletter (#1-4, October 1987-June 1988)
JGTaff, Taff auction catalog, 1988
Union Street, apazine with Scott Custis for Turbo-Charged Party Animal Apa, (#1-111, September 1989 – present)
Editor (with Diane Martin) and designer of The Bakery Men Don't See, cookbook and fund-raiser for the Tiptree Award, SF3, 1991
Editor and designer of Her Smoke Rose Up from Supper, cookbook and fund-raiser for the Tiptree Award, SF3, 1993
Corflu 10 publications, May 1993
Khatru 3/4 reprinting, May 1993
Grayscale, apazine for Intercourse, (#1-15, September 1996 – present)
Many other WisCon and SF3 publications--pocket program books, dessert tickets, brochures, maps, grids, posters

Illustrations, t-shirt designs, posters and logos for WisCon and SF3 publications
Illustrations for many other fanzines
Design and cover art for The Cacher of the Rye, by Carl Brandon, Introduction by Terry Carr, Obsessive *Press, 1982
Illustrations for The Silver Horse, by Elizabeth A. Lynn, Blue Jay Press, 1984
Illustration for Arabesques, More Tales of the Arabian Nights, Avon, 1988
Design of Women En Large, Images of Fat Nudes, photography by Laurie Toby Edison, text by Debbie Notkin, Books in Focus, 1994
Design (with John Berry) of Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Debbie Notkin and the Secret Feminist Cabal
Map of Shaftal for Laurie Marks' Elemental Logic series, http://lauriejmarks.com/shaftal/map1.html
Cover art for Tomb of the Fathers, by Eleanor Arnason (Aqueduct Press, 2010)
Web banners for WisCon, SF3 and Tiptree web pages

Introduction: "Visualizing the Future," to Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through SF & Feminism, edited by Helen Merrick & Tess Williams, University of Western Australia Press, 1999

The Dead Cat Through History traveling slide show
Cat-wrapping demonstrations
The Trial of Scott Custis (on the charge of fannishness), WisCon program
WisCon concom, WisCon 1-23 1974-1999. Programming, Publications, Art Show, Panelist
WisCon chair, WisCon 20, 1995; WisCon 30, 2006.
Corflu concom member, 1993
Tiptree Award judge/coordinator 1994
Tiptree Award motherboard member
Tiptree Auction coordinator, WisCon