Locus Award for Best Illustrated and Art Book

The Locus Award for Best Art Book is one of the annual Locus Awards presented by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year. The award for Best Art Book was given out for two years 1979-1980 and then revived in 1994.

In 2009-2010 the Art Book and Non-Fiction categories were merged. In 2009 a graphic novel won, and is listed below, in 2010 the winner was a prose non-fiction work and is not mentioned here.

Winners

Year	Nominated Work[1]	Creator(s)	Ref.
1979	Tomorrow and Beyond	Ian Summers	[2]
1980	Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials	Wayne Douglas Barlowe, Ian Summers	[3]
1994	The Art of Michael Whelan: Scenes/Visions	Michael Whelan	[4]
1995	Spectrum: The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Burnett & Arnie Fenner	[5]
1996	Spectrum 2: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Burnett & Arnie Fenner	[6]
1997	Spectrum 3: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Burnett & Arnie Fenner	[7]
1998	Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art	Vincent Di Fate	[8]
1999	Spectrum 5: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Burnett & Arnie Fenner	[9]
2000	Science Fiction of the 20th Century	Frank M. Robinson	[10]
2001	Spectrum 7: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Burnett & Arnie Fenner	[11]
2002	Spectrum 8: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner	[12]
2003	Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner	[13]
2004	The Sandman: Endless Nights	Neil Gaiman et al.	[14]
2005	Spectrum 11: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner	[15]
2006	Spectrum 12: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner	[16]
2007	Spectrum 13: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner	[17]
2008	The Arrival	Shaun Tan	[18]
2009	Coraline: The Graphic Novel	Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell	[19]
2010	Art book not honoured		[20]
2011	Spectrum 17: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner	[21]
2012	No award made
2013	Spectrum 18: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner	[22]
2014	Spectrum 19: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner	[23]
2015	Spectrum 20: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner	[24]
2016	Julie Dillon's Imagined Realms, Book 2: Earth and Sky	Julie Dillon	[25]
2017	Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie	Charles Vess	[26]
2018	The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History	Douglas Ellis, Ed Hulse & Robert Weinberg	[27]
2019	The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition	Ursula K. Le Guin, illustrated by Charles Vess	[28]
2020	Spectrum 26: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	John Fleskes	[29]
2021	The Art of NASA: The Illustrations that Sold the Missions	Piers Bizony	[30]
2022	The Art of Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess's Stardust	Charles Vess	[31]
2023	Chivalry	Neil Gaiman, Colleen Doran	[32]
2024	The Culture: The Drawings	Iain M. Banks	[33]
2025	The Last Unicorn	Peter S. Beagle, Tom Kidd	[34]