Steve Stiles

Steve Stiles at Anticipation. Photo by Mark Olson

(July 16, 1943 – January 11, 2020)

Stephen Willis Stiles was a Baltiwash fan artist and fan writer. He made his living as a freelance illustrator. He was nominated for the Best Fan Artist Hugo in 1967, 1968, 2003–2008, 2010–2011 and 2013, and won in 2016. He was a perennial nominee and frequent winner of the FAAn Award for Best Fan Artist.

His first cartoon for a fanzine appeared in Cry of the Nameless. He was a member of BSFA (and edited some issues of BSFAN), and of the Fanoclasts and was involved in the Subway Incident. He was a member of Shadow FAPA and APA-F.

He was TAFF winner in 1968, published TAFF Progress Report (with Thomas Schluck), TAFF Terror Tales, and published Harrison Country, his trip report, in 2006. He was a member of Apassembly.

Stiles studied at The High School of Music & Art and the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He married fellow fan Elaine Mandell in 1981. He died of cancer.

• Obituary at File770
• Baltimore Sun obituary (paywall).
• Official website at Wayback Machine.
• Comicopedia entry.

Fanzines and Apazines:

• The Amateur Effer [1964] (some issues; with others)
• Been There, Done That!
• BSFAN (some issues)
• A Day at the Races
• The Iconoclastic Quarterly in the 60s
• It's Jesus: Harrison Country 1968-2006
• Killjoy
• Notebook
• Omaha (for FAPA)
• Pen and Stylus
• Rubber Meatball (for Shadow FAPA)
• SAM (for FAPA)
• Tonight's the Night to Go to the Movies (for APA-F)
• Skiffle
• Skosh
• Stallions Across the Pacific
• Star Wagon
• TAFF Progress Report (with Thomas Schluck)
• TAFF Terror Tales
• Tearaw Tales
• Wake Up Stupid (with Calvin Demmon for Shadow)

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1968 -- 1968 TAFF Race winner
• 1982 -- Lunacon 25
• 1986 -- Disclave 30
• 1989 -- Balticon 23
• 1998 -- Rotsler Award (first winner)
• 2000 -- Balticon 34
• 2001, 2003–06 -- FAAn Awards for Best Fan Artist
• 2006 -- Synthetic ConFusion
• 2008 -- Corflu Fifty
• 2010–12 -- FAAn Awards for Best Fan Artist
• 2012 -- Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Fan Correspondent
• 2013 -- Capclave 2013
• 2014 -- FAAn Award for Best Fan Artist
• 2015 -- FAAn Award for No. 1 Fan Face
• 2016 -- 2016 Best Fan Artist Hugo
• 2015–17 -- FAAn Awards for Best Fan Artist
• 2019 -- Special FAAn Award
• 2022 -- Balticon 56 (Ghost of Honor)
• Sci-Con

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Person

1943—2020

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