2018 Chesley Award Winners

Best Cover Illustration: Hardcover

• WINNER: Marc Simonetti for The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks (Grim Oak)

• Tommy Arnold for Horizon, Fran Wilde (Tor)
• Marcela Bolívar for Julia, Peter Straub (Centipede)
• Julie Dillon for Final Girls, Mira Grant (Subterranean)
• Donato Giancola for Assassin’s Price, L.E. Modesitt Jr. (Tor)
• John Harris for The Man in the Tree, Sage Walker (Tor)
• Elizabeth Leggett for Retrograde, Peter Cawdron (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Best Cover Illustration: Paperback or Ebook

• WINNER: Jaime Jones for The Tiger’s Daughter, K. Arsenault Rivera (Tor)

• Julie Dillon for Beyond the Stars: New Worlds, New Suns, Ellen Campbell, ed. (self-published)
• Aly Fell for Magic for Nothing, Seanan McGuire (DAW)
• Miranda Meeks for The Fisher of Bones, Sarah Gailey (Fireside)
• Gene Mollica for Call of Fire, Beth Cato (Harper Voyager)
• Dave Palumbo for Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing)
• Stephen Youll for Acadie, Dave Hutchinson (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Magazine Illustration

• WINNER: Ingrid Kallick for Cricket 1/17

• Julie Dillon for Clarkesworld 5/17
• Eddie Mendoza for Clarkesworld 7/17
• Reiko Murakami for Lightspeed 3/17
• Sergei Sarichev for Clarkesworld 3/17

Best Interior Illustration

• WINNER: Gregory Manchess for Above the Timberline, Gregory Manchess (Saga)

• John Picacio for “When the Devil Drives”, Melinda Snodgrass (Tor.com 7/17)
• Dan Dos Santos for The Name of the Wind: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
• Omar Rayyan for Goblin Market, Christine Rosetti (Donald M. Grant)
• Marc Simonetti for The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks (Grim Oak)
• Sam Weber for “These Deathless Bones”, Cassandra Khaw (Tor.com 7/17)

Best Color Work: Unpublished

• WINNER: Charles Urbach for “Not All Treasure is Gold” (colored pencil)

• Serena Maylon for “Erebor” (watercolor and gouache)
• Alessandra Pisano for “Kindred Spirits” (oil)
• Cynthia Sheppard for “Deconstructing Wonderland” (digital)
• Eric Velhagen for “Respite” (oil)

Best Monochrome Work: Unpublished

• WINNER: Ruth Sanderson for “Dragon Drum” (ink)

• Ed Binkley for “Thistledown” (digital)
• Bobby Chiu for “Romeo and Juliet” (digital)
• Karla Ortiz for “Ada” (oil)
• Christine Rhee for “Gumiho” (graphite)
• Shawn E. Russell for “Release” (graphite)
• Kaysha Siemens for “Pensive” (oil)

Best Three-Dimensional Art

• WINNER: Forest Rogers for “Octopoid Descending” (kato polyclay)

• Skink Chen for “Resentful Beast” (painted cast resin)
• Ellen Jewett for “The Burden of Motion and Ambition” (cold porcelain and polymer clay)
• Colin & Kristine Poole for “Gift of the Faun” (bronze)
• Lisa Sell for “Manifesting Orb Dragon” (aves apoxie sculpt)
• Vincent Villafranca for “Fever Dream #17” (bronze)

Best Gaming-Related Illustration

• WINNER: Melissa Gay for Offering Sagaborn RPG Core Rule Book (Lone Wanderer Entertainment)

• Kari Christensen for “Chandra Gremlin Wrangler” (Wizards of the Coast)
• Piotr Jabloński for “Moaning Wall Magic” (Wizards of the Coast)
• Jaime Jones for “Ur-Dragon Magic” (Wizards of the Coast)
• Sara Winters for “Compulsive Research Magic” (Wizards of the Coast)

Best Product Illustration

• WINNER: Annie Stegg Gerard for “Stormy Serenade” Dragon Con t-shirt

• Kari Christensen for “Call of Cthulhu”
• Julie Dillon for American Gods promo art
• Adam Hughes for “In a Galaxy Far, Far Away” LE Art Print
• James Jean for The Shape of Water teaser poster
• Rachel Quinlan for “Knight of Cups”

Best Art Director

• WINNER: Neil Clarke

• Christine Foltzer
• Irene Gallo
• Lauren Panepinto
• Cynthia Sheppard

Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award

• WINNER: Alan Lee

• Richard Hescox
• Gregory Manchess
• William O’Connor
• Allen Williams

The awards are given by the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists (ASFA). Winners were announced at Worldcon 76 held August 16-20, 2018 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose CA.