Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 20:58:28 -0700
From: Sam Pierce <scpierce at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <wsfalist at wsfa.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WFC 2003 award news
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Chesley balloting is similar to the Nebulas,only open to members of
the Association, in this case Association of Science Fiction
(&Fantasy) Artists.  Voting closed in July.  So now we just wait and
see.  <g>

        -- sam

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 23:28:02 -0400, Elspeth Kovar
<ekovar at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> At 03:00 PM 8/2/04, Michael Walsh wrote:
> >The cover illo for our PR 1 by Allen Koszowski, our Art GoH, has been
> >nominated by ASFA in the Best Product Illustration for the Chesley
> >Awards.
> >
> >Winners will be anounced at Noreascon.
> >
> >Here's a link: http://www.asfa-art.org/chesley/2004.html#product
>
> For those who missed the very-far-too-subtle hint, as I did until I was not
> only told but hit over the head with a baseball bat, what Allen has been
> nominated for is his black-and-white piece that many of you have seen if
> you worked World Fantasy 2003 . . . since it's the illustration on our
> bookbags.
>
> You know, those super canvass things with the orange handles that hold so
> many books?  And the wonderful one of Cuthulu pulling the dome off of the
> Capital and pillaging whatever is inside?  I'm not going to explore how the
> voting is handled since if I do I may have to write something.  More
> importantly, I haven't looked at the others closely so I am constrained
> from making any suggestions.
>
> But even if the others are better at advertising product -- which I doubt
> -- the GoH with the addition of the conchair and Jerry Crutcher, who gave
> the leeway and made the decision needed close to deadline to allow this
> appear on our bookbags, deserve massive kudos.  This was the perfect
> combination of convention, wise and witty GoH, topicality, amazing
> pen-and-ink work, and people to make it show up as it should.  To Mike and
> Jerry for the process but above and beyond to Allen for the art.
>
> Mike, I don't have Allen or Jerry's email addresses but could you pass this
> along to them and to any others of the WFC 2003 crew who should know?  And
> I think that our MARCO contact has changed but if Jerry can't get in touch
> with them let me know and I will.  No matter who I've talked with as soon
> as WFC has been mentioned the first thing they say is how much they loved
> the artwork on our bookbags.  They see a lot so that's appreciation both
> for the art itself and for the work that all have done to translate it to
> the appropriate medium.
>
> Elspeth
>