The Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists presented the 33rd annual ASFA awards, the Chesleys, at Worldcon 76 in San Jose on August 17.
Note that each category has a link to an album with images of the finalists.
Best Cover Illustration – Hardback Book
Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dLNApxEe8czyUsoeA
- Marc Simonetti The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks, Grim Oak Press, August 2017
Best Cover Illustration – Paperback Book or Ebook
Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/MThpAouoVebnSZ3V2
- Jaime Jones The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera, Tor, October 2017
Best Magazine Illustration
Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2jF2th7EMhaC2PGb9
- Ingrid Kallick Cricket Magazine January 2017
Best Interior Illustration
Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/JEWYafv1NidMuNcj9
- Gregory Manchess Above the Timberline by Gregory Manchess Saga Press, October 2017
Best Gaming Related Illustration
Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/o6sjoSdFjZFJjJSG8
- Melissa Gay Offering Sagaborn RPG Core Rule Book Lone Wanderer Entertainment August 2017
Best Product Illustration
Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Zif6qgngtQkyNjB02
- Annie Stegg Gerard Stormy Serenade, DragonCon Tshirt art 2017
Best Color Work – Unpublished
Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/geXR3MLbGco6VQa89
- Charles Urbach Not All Treasure is Gold Colored Pencil
Best Monochrome – Unpublished
Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/XEWnQPNhy3ivGe1e7
- Ruth Sanderson “Dragon Drum” Ink
Best Three Dimensional Art
Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BWFvrV6pBwPxvOuf1
- Forest Rogers “Octopoid Descending” Kato polyclay
Best Art Director
- Neil Clarke Clarkesworld
Lifetime Achievement
- Alan Lee
The Chesley Awards were established in 1985 as ASFA’s peer awards to recognize individual works and achievements not otherwise recognized by the Hugo Awards, during a given year. The Chesleys were initially called the ASFA Awards, but were later renamed to honor famed astronomical artist Chesley Bonestell after his death in 1986. The awards are usually presented annually at the World Science Fiction Convention or at the North American Science Fiction Convention when the Worldcon is held outside of North America.
The Chesleys have long been internationally acclaimed as the most prestigious awards in the field of fantastic arts. These awards are nominated and decided upon by the members of the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists.
[Thanks to Sara Felix for the story.]
Congratulations to the winners! There’s some great stuff there!
I have serious disagreements with both of the book categories. For hardcover, I would have voted both “The Assassin’s Price” and “Retrograde” ahead of the winner*; for paperback / e-book, the Julie Dillon piece is IMO head and shoulders above everything else in the category. But that’s a matter of personal taste, and beyond that I either agree with or have no argument against anything that won.
Alan Lee’s Lifetime Achievement Award is kinda “Wait, he didn’t have that already?” 🙂
* And part of the reason for that is that, like the book itself, it’s so screamingly derivative. Maybe the artist chose to do that to play up the pastiche quality of the book, but I’d still rather look at real Howe/Lee art than something imitating it.
Very nice — my Pinterest Art board just got a bunch of new pins! Would love to get a print of Charles Urbach’s “Not All Treasure is Gold.”
(Once more with checking of box.)