Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 23:28:02 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>, <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WFC 2003 award news
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

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