Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration – Magazine

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[1]
1987	Bob Eggleton	Asimov's, January 1987[1]
1988	Terry Lee	Amazing, January 1988[1]
1989	Bob Eggleton	Asimov's, July 1988[1]
1990	Frank Kelly Freas Laura Brodian Kelly-Freas	Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Autumn 1989[1]
1991	Bob Eggleton	Aboriginal, January 1990[1]
1992	David Mattingly	Amazing, September 1991[1]
1993	Michael Whelan	Asimov's, November 1992[1]
1994	Wojtek Siudmak	Asimov's, December 1993[1]
1995 (tie)	Bob Eggleton	Asimov's, August 1994[1]
	Wojtek Siudmak	Analog, December 1994[1]
1996	Bob Eggleton	Analog, January 1995
1997	Bob Eggleton	Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1996[1]
1998	Todd Lockwood	Dragon, August 1997[1]
1999	Bob Eggleton	Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998[1]
2000	Bob Eggleton	Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1999[1]
2001	Todd Lockwood	Dragon, July 2000[1]
2002	James C. Christensen	The Leading Edge #41, April 2001[1]
2003	Todd Lockwood	Dragon, December 2002[1]
2004	Bob Eggleton	Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2003[1]
2005	Omar Rayyan	Spider, October 2004[1]
2006	Donato Giancola	Asimov's, September 2005[1]
2007	Renee LeCompte	Fantasy Magazine, Summer 2006[1]
2008	Cory Ench Catska Ench	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2007[2]
2009	Matts Minnhagen	Clarkesworld #19, April 2008 ("Floating Fish")[1]	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[3]	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[4]	Julie Dillon for Clarkesworld #48, September 2010 ("Honeycomb")[5] 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[6]	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[7]
2013	Ken Barthelmey	Clarkesworld #74, November 2012 ("New World")[8]	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[1]	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[1]	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")[1]	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”)[1]	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[1]	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")[1]	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")