Chesley Noms / SF Awards Watch
Nominations for ASFA's 23rd Annual Chesley Awards are due June 30. As of yesterday, Science Fiction Awards Watch offers illustrators a comment forum to inform voters where their 2007 art can be seen for consideration. I'm filling out my own Chesley ballot right now and admittedly, I'm straining for ideas in categories such as Unpublished Illustration/Monochrome, Product Illustration, and Gaming Illustration. A ton of terrific work out there, but it's a little unwieldy to find eligible work by cruising tons of websites. SPECTRUM is a phenomenal print resource, but it's one glorious slice of a bigger pie. The current available volume, SPECTRUM 14, contains works published or created in 2006, so unfortunately, a lot of it isn't eligible for current Chesley consideration. Mark Kelly does a terrific job at Locus Online with this database of book covers from '07. Hopefully, illustrators will drop comments at SFAW and let voters know where to find their eligible work. FYI: A glance at my 2007 published work can be found in the sidebar at right and here. Big thanks to SFAW for giving illustrators this opportunity.
posted by John Picacio at 5:07 AM
2 Comments:
John, it's heartbreaking to see how little feedback gets today the ASFA Forum... I know we are talking here about a no-profit organization and the work of volunteers, most of them incredible people, most of them changing year after year, but I feel that something more could be done to give voice to professionals and emerging artists...
Maybe an ASFA Blog could be a better and more visible format then the current Forum and website?
Great idea, Maurizio! A blog would be a very smart addition to the ASFA site. It needs a jumpstart over there....
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