Spectrum 21 Awards

Spectrum Awards. (Photo credit: David Bober/Helpful Bear Productions.)

Spectrum Awards. (Photo credit: David Bober/Helpful Bear Productions.)

The Spectrum 21 Awards were presented May 10 in Kansas City, under the guidance of Spectrum’s new Director John Fleskes. The honorees in eight categories and the 2014 Grand Master recipient are:

Advertising
Silver Award: Victo Ngai for “A Tiger Beer Chinese New Year”
Gold Award: Kent Williams for “The Criterion Collection Lord of the Flies”

Book
Silver Award: Scott Gustafson for “Little Sambha and the Tiger with the Beautiful Purple Shoes with Crimson Soles”
Gold Award: Nicolas Delort for “The End of the Road”

Comics
Silver Award: Mark A. Nelson for “Seasons, page 1”
Gold Award: Thomas Campi for “The Red Door”

Concept Art
Silver Award: Vance Kovacs for “John Carter Punches a Thark”
Gold Award: Theo Prins for “Refugees”

Dimensional
Silver Award: Colin and Kristine Poole for “Hot Diggety Dog”
Gold Award: The Shiflett Bros. for “Vertical Man-Tank, 1892”

Editorial
Silver Award: Yuko Shimizu for “Hair Tree”
Gold Award: Tran Nguyen for “The Insects of Love”

Institutional
Silver Award: Justin Sweet for “Blacksea”
Gold Award: Bill Carman for “Shared Eyewear”

Unpublished
Silver Award: Yukari Masuike for “Riding Horse on the Freezing Day”
Gold Award: Omar Rayyan for “The Long Walk Home”

Grand Master Award
Iain McCaig

Iain McCaig. (Photo bredit: David Bober/Helpful Bear  Productions.)

Iain McCaig. (Photo bredit: David Bober/Helpful Bear
Productions.)

Jurors who determined the Gold and Silver Award winners this year were Cory Godbey, J. Anthony Kosar, George Pratt, Shelly Wan, and Allen Williams.

All of the work will be included in Spectrum 21: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, which will be published by Flesk Publications and distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West in October.

Bill Carman. (Photo credit: David Bober/Helpful Bear  Productions.)

Bill Carman. (Photo credit: David Bober/Helpful Bear
Productions.)

Colin and Kristine Poole.  (Photo credit: David Bober/Helpful Bear Productions.)

Colin and Kristine Poole. (Photo credit: David Bober/Helpful Bear Productions.)

Omar Rayyan.  (Photo credit: David Bober/Helpful Bear  Productions.)

Omar Rayyan. (Photo credit: David Bober/Helpful Bear
Productions.)

The Shiflett Bros.  (Photo credit: David Bober/Helpful Bear  Productions.)

The Shiflett Bros. (Photo credit: David Bober/Helpful Bear
Productions.)

Tran Nguyen.  (Photo credit: David Bober/Helpful Bear  Productions.)

Tran Nguyen. (Photo credit: David Bober/Helpful Bear
Productions.)