Saturday 6 September 2003

Chesley Awards

The 18th annual Chesley Awards for SF and fantasy art were announced Friday evening, August 29, 2003, at Torcon 3, the 61st World Science Fiction Convention.

The awards are presented by the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists (ASFA), and named for famed space artist Chesley Bonestell.

COVER ILLUSTRATION, HARDCOVER

Todd Lockwood, Cover of The Thousand Orcs (by R. A. Salvatore; Wizards of the Coast)

COVER ILLUSTRATION, PAPERBACK

Tristan Elwell, Cover of Briar Rose (by Jane Yolen; Tor/Starscape)

COVER ILLUSTRATION, MAGAZINE

Todd Lockwood, Cover of Dragon Dec 2002

INTERIOR ILLUSTRATION

Scott Gustafson, for Classic Fairy Tales (by Scott Gustafson; Greenwich Workshop/Hallmark)

COLOR WORK, UNPUBLISHED

"The Storm", Richard Hescox

MONOCHROME WORK, UNPUBLISHED

"The Skimmer's Lagoon", Maurizio Manzieri

THREE-DIMENSIONAL

"Con Jose Dragon", Kim Graham

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT

Tom Kidd

ART DIRECTOR

Irene Gallo (Tor Books)

GAMING RELATED ILLUSTRATION

"Spider Queen", Todd Lockwood (Forgotten Realms supplement "City of the Spider Queen", WotC)

PRODUCT ILLUSTRATION

"The Light Ship", Dean Morrissey (fine art print for The Greenwich Workshop, April '02)

CONTRIBUTION TO ASFA

Geoff Surette

The 2003 nominees page has links to images of most of this year's nominated works.

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Links

Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists—
  The Chesley Awards
  2003 nominees

Locus Index to SF Awards —
  Chesley Awards
    Past winners by Year
    Past finalists and winners

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