Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration – Magazine explained

The Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration - Magazine Art is given by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA) to recognize achievements in the illustration of science fiction & fantasy magazines eligible in the year previous to the award.

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner	Magazine	Other nominees
1985	Bob Walters	Asimov's, December 1984
1987	Bob Eggleton	Asimov's, January 1987
1988	Terry Lee	Amazing, January 1988
1989	Bob Eggleton	Asimov's, July 1988
1990	Frank Kelly Freas Laura Brodian Kelly-Freas	Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Autumn 1989
1991	Bob Eggleton	Aboriginal, January 1990
1992	David Mattingly	Amazing, September 1991
1993	Michael Whelan	Asimov's, November 1992
1994	Wojtek Siudmak	Asimov's, December 1993
1995 (tie)	Bob Eggleton	Asimov's, August 1994
	Wojtek Siudmak	Analog, December 1994
1996	Bob Eggleton	Analog, January 1995
1997	Bob Eggleton	Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1996
1998	Todd Lockwood	Dragon, August 1997
1999	Bob Eggleton	Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998
2000	Bob Eggleton	Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1999
2001	Todd Lockwood	Dragon, July 2000
2002	James C. Christensen	The Leading Edge #41, April 2001
2003	Todd Lockwood	Dragon, December 2002
2004	Bob Eggleton	Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2003
2005	Omar Rayyan	Spider, October 2004
2006	Donato Giancola	Asimov's, September 2005
2007	Renee LeCompte	Fantasy Magazine, Summer 2006
2008	Cory Ench Catska Ench	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2007
2009	Matts Minnhagen	Clarkesworld #19, April 2008 ("Floating Fish")	Bob Eggleton for Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2008 ("Hammerfall") David A. Hardy for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2008 Maurizio Manzieri for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2008 John Picacio for Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2008
2010	John Picacio	Asimov's, September 2009	Adam Tredowski for Interzone #220, January/February 2009 Les Edwards for Cemetery Dance, October 2009 Bob Eggleton for Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2009 Kazuhiko Nakamura for Clarkesworld #38, November 2009 ("Brain Tower") David Palumbo for Heavy Metal, November 2009 David A. Hardy for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 2009
2011	Nick Greenwood	Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show #17, June 2010	Julie Dillon for Clarkesworld #48, September 2010 ("Honeycomb") David A. Hardy for Analog, April 2010 Audrey Lazarev for Clarkesworld #50, November 2010 ("Soulhunter") Sergio Rebolledo for Clarkesworld #40, January 2010 ("Warm") James Ryman for Heavy Metal, January 2010
2012	Lee Moyer	Weird Tales, Winter 2010/2011	Facundo Diaz for Clarkesworld #57, June 2011 ("Off Road") Laura Diehl for Fantasy, August 2011 Carly B. Sorge for Apex Magazine, September 2011 Dariusz Zawadski for Fantasy, May 2011
2013	Ken Barthelmey	Clarkesworld #74, November 2012 ("New World")	Julie Dillon, Clarkesworld #73, October 2012 ("Breaking Through") Bob Eggleton Famous Masters of Filmland #262, July/August 2012 Martin Faragasso, Clarkesworld #71, August 2012 ("Space Journey") David Palumbo, Creepy #9, Dark Horse, July 2012 Craig J. Spearing, Dragon #418, December 2012
2014	Dan Dos Santos	Fables #136, December 2013	Julie Dillon, Clarkesworld #87, December 2013 ("Elliptic") Maurizio Manzieri, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2013 Cynthia Sheppard, Bull Spec, Spring 2013
2015	Julie Dillon	Analog, April 2014	Matt Dixon, Clarkesworld #90, March 2014 ("Hollow") Wayne Haag, Interzone #253, July/August 2014 Patrick Jones, Analog, March 2014 Jae Lee, Batman/Superman #14 Peter Mohrbacher, Lightspeed #48, May 2014
2016	Tran Nguyen	Uncanny Magazine #4, May/June 2015 ("Traveling to a Distant Day")	Maurizio Manzieri, Asimov's, October/November 2015 Reiko Murakami, Lightspeed #63, August 2015 Greg Ruth, Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird #1 shichigoro-shingo, Clarkesworld #109, October 2015 ("A-boushi-ya")
2017	Galen Dara	Uncanny Magazine #10, May/June 2016 (“Bubbles and Blast Off”)	Elizabeth Leggett, Lightspeed #69, February 2016 David Palumbo, Aliens – Life and Death #1 ("Swallowed Whole") Paolo Rivera, Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953 #1 Jeremy Wilson, Chimera Brigade #1
2018	Ingrid Kallick	Cricket Magazine, January 2017	Julie Dillon, Clarkesworld #128, May 2017 ("Darkess") Eddie Mendoza, Clarkesworld #130, July 2017 ("Genetics Lab") Reiko Murakami, Lightspeed #82, March 2017 ("The Worldless") Sergei Sarichev, Clarkesworld #126, March 2017 ("Jungle Deep")
2019	Arthur Haas	Clarkesworld #140, May 2018 ("Meeting")	Cindy Fan, Strange Horizons, 19 November 2018 Donato Giancola, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April 2018 Sean Murray, Clarkesworld #141, June 2018 ("The Storkfriars") Greg Ruth, Stranger Things #2 (variant), 31 October 2018
2020	Evan Cagle	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Chosen Ones #1, August 2019	Yoshitaka Amano, Blood Borne #12, June 2019 Matt Dixon, Clarkesworld #152, May 2019 ("Vertigo") Tiffany England, Cricket Magazine, October 2019 ("Into the Wild Blue Yonder") Reiko Murakami, Lightspeed #104, January 2019 ("With Teeth Unmake the Sun")
2021	Francesca Resta	Clarkesworld #169, October 2020 ("Ancient Stones")	Arjun Amky, Clarkesworld #170, October 2020 ("Alien Scout") Evan Cagle, Stranger Things: Into the Fire #4 (variant), 8 July 2020 Rodion Shaldo, Clarkesworld #168, October 2020 ("51") Tithi Luadthong, Lightspeed #123, August 2020 Tim O'Brien, Time, 17 August 2020 ("The Plague Election")
2022
2023	Tehani Farr	Eternus #1 (metal variant), October 2022	Ed Binkley, Bourbon Penn #26, March 2022 Zezhou Chen, Clarkesworld #184, January 2022 ("Return to Heaven 7") Daniel Conway, Clarkesworld #193, October 2022 ("Art Block") JC Jongwon Park, Clarkesworld #185, February 2022 ("Talk")

External links

• The Chesley Award section of the ASFA website