2009 Chesley Awards Winners

The 24th annual Chesley Awards were announced at Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon in Montréal, on August 7, 2009. The Chesley Awards were established in 1985 as ASFA’s peer awards to recognize individual works and achievements during a given year.

COVER ILLUSTRATION, HARDCOVER

• Donato Giancola, for A Book of Wizards (by Marvin Kaye, ed.; SFBC)
• Stephan Martiniere, for The Dragons of Babel (by Michael Swanwick; Tor)
• Scott Fischer, for An Evil Guest (by Gene Wolfe; Tor)
• Stephen Hickman, for Ghost Quartet (by Marvin Kaye, ed.; Tor)
• Todd Lockwood, for Quofum (by Alan Dean Foster; Del Rey)
• Dan Dos Santos, for Stalking the Vampire (by Mike Resnick; Pyr)
• John Picacio, for Viewpoints Critical: Selected Stories (by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.; Tor)

COVER ILLUSTRATION, PAPERBACK

• John Picacio, for Fast Forward 2 (by Lou Anders, ed.; Pyr)
• Dan Dos Santos, for Cry Wolf (by Patricia Briggs; Ace)
• Michael Komarck, for Dragonforge (by James Maxey; Solaris)
• Paul Youll, for Hell and Earth (by Elizabeth Bear; Roc)
• Todd Lockwood, for The Stormcaller (by Tom Lloyd; Pyr)
• J.P. Targete, for The Turtle Moves! Discworld’s Story Unauthorized (by Lawrence Watt-Evans; Benbella)

COVER ILLUSTRATION, MAGAZINE

• Matts Minnhagen, for Clarkesworld (Apr 2008)
• Bob Eggleton, for Asimov’s (Aug 2008)
• David A. Hardy, for F&SF (Jun 2008)
• Maurizio Manzieri, for F&SF (Apr 2008)
• John Picacio, for Asimov’s (Sep 2008)

INTERIOR ILLUSTRATION

• Donato Giancola, for “The Wraith” (by J. Robert Lennon; Playboy Nov 2008)
• John Picacio, for Elric: The Stealer of Souls (by Michael Moorcock; Del Rey)
• Adam Rex, for Frankenstein Takes the Cake (Harcourt)
• Shaun Tan, for Tales from Outer Suburbia (Allen & Unwin)
• Alan Lee, for Tales from the Perilous Realm (by J. R. R. Tolkien; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

COLOR WORK, UNPUBLISHED

• “The Gift”, Simon Dominic (digital)
• “Gizmo”, Omar Rayyan (watercolor)
• “Lorca’s Cave”, Raoul Vitale (oil)
• “Progeny”, Donato Giancola (oil)
• “The Seawall”, Michael Whelan (acrylic)
• “The Wave in Her Heart”, Julie Bell (oil)

MONOCHROME WORK, UNPUBLISHED

• “Kraken”, Simon Dominic (digital)
• “Chiroptera”, Kate Lebherz-Gelinas (pencil)
• “Counterfeit”, A. L. Ashbaugh (graphite)
• “Gwenevere”, Rebecca Guay (pencil)
• “Hare”, James Jean (oil)

THREE-DIMENSIONAL

• “Otherworldly Procession”, Vincent Villafranca (bronze)
• “Dark Harpy”, Forest Rogers (polyclay, copper foil, and gold leaf)
• “Heart of Art”, Akihito Ikeda (mixed)
• “The Mushroom Gatherer”, Laura Reynolds (mixed)
• “Wall-E”, Brian Chan (origami – a single sheet of paper)

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT

• Julie Bell
• Roger Dean
• Dan Dos Santos
• James Jean
• Stephan Martiniere
• Shaun Tan

ART DIRECTOR

• Lou Anders (Pyr Books)
• Matt Adelsperger (Wizards of the Coast)
• Scott Allie (Dark Horse Comics)
• Irene Gallo (Tor)
• Jeremy Jarvis (Wizards of the Coast)
• William Schafer (Subterranean Press)
• David Stevenson (Del Rey)

GAMING-RELATED ILLUSTRATION

• “Stoic Angel”, Volkan Baga (Magic Card: Shards of Alara, Wizards of the Coast)
• “Angelic Benediction”, Michael Komarck (Magic Card: Shards of Alara, Wizards of the Coast)
• “Cancel”, David Palumbo (Magic Card: Shards of Alara, Wizards of the Coast)
• “Firestorm”, Tom Fleming (VS System, Upper Deck)
• “Invincible Hymn”, Matt Stewart (Magic Card: Shards of Alara, Wizards of the Coast)

PRODUCT ILLUSTRATION

• “Hellboy 2”, Dan Dos Santos (promotional art for the film, Dark Horse & Universal Pictures)
• “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”, Justin Sweet (concept art for the film, Walt Disney Studios)
• “Cyber Angel”, Patrick Jones (poster, IlluXCon)
• “False Magic”, James Christensen (LE Canvas Print, Greenwich Workshop)
• “The Name of the Rose”, Volkan Baga (box art & promotional art for the game, Ravensburger Spieleverlag)

  The full list of nominated artworks is available on the ASFA website.